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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization?
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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is... A cupper, mugger, a glass, a tanker, chalice, a stein, a canteen, jugger flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
Enjoy me now for the unparalleled pleasure. The dopamine, the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go. Delicious. Unparalleled. So good I can... Barely still. Well, I'm going to make a prediction about the drones. We're not going to find out about the drones. I just feel that way. And here's why I feel it.
If you imagine all of the reasons that the prior administration wouldn't have told us about the drones, what would be an example of something that would be different if there's a Republican president? Because whatever it is that's making our government not want to talk about it, it wouldn't change under Trump, would it? Do you think the problem was that the aliens we've detected are Democrats?
And then the Democrats are like, whoa, whoa, keep this under your hat. It turns out the aliens are on our side. They're Democrats. No, no. What could it be? Except there's some risk to the country. And whoever told Biden there's a risk to the country is going to tell Trump the same thing.
Do you think that Trump would feel safe, you know, as brave as he is and as, let's say, as out of the box as he is, do you think he would be safe, feel safe, telling you something that his own security people said, whatever you do, don't tell him this? I don't think we're going to find out. So here's part of the reason. So we saw him when he was signing his executive orders on his first day there.
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of Trump's drone policy?
He said to his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, can you find out about those drones? How long would it take her to find out about the drones? Well, maybe she couldn't find out personally, but certainly she could say, Mr. President, they'll give you a call or they'll be in your office tomorrow. It'll only take 10 minutes, and they'll tell you what the drone situation is.
I don't think it's going to happen. So put down your markers. We'll make a bet on this. I say that we'll either hear something that doesn't sound right, like, oh, it's just normal drones, and then you'll say, Is it?
Is it really?
And you're not going to believe it. Or it'll be something like, whoops, turns out I can't tell you, which will scare the bejesus out of you. So I don't think Trump can say, after saying he would reveal it, I don't think he can go back and say, oh, it's really dangerous, I can't tell you. Because then we're just going to go crazy, saying, what do you mean? Is it aliens? Is it Russia?
You got to tell us. So he can't scare us. That would just be a stupid mistake. He's not going to do that. But he probably can't tell us. So I think we're going to get the in-between answer, like, well, you know, still looking into it, blah, blah, blah, a big old nothing. But meanwhile, the New Jersey drones are back in force. So the one thing he can't tell us is that it stopped.
Whatever it is, there's a lot of it now, and it's back to its original thing. Now, remember when the New Jersey drones were temporarily banned, the number of them went way down. So the one thing we do know is that the American drone users who follow the law were part of the massive drone spottings. But there still were drones flying when drones were banned. So there's still a mystery there.
But a lot of them were just obvious stuff, it looks like. Meanwhile, Pete Hegseff gets some more 11th hour accusations. So here's the weird thing. The accusations from, I understand, the sister of his ex-wife saying that he maybe laid hands on his wife, his ex-wife. But the ex-wife says, that didn't happen. Or she's a little more vague about that, but she's essentially debunking the claim.
But she's debunking it and you know, let's say in the least revealing way. Basically, she doesn't want to be involved, and she says that the accusations are inaccurate. Now, I have to say, if you had to pick your own ex-wife... Having an ex-wife that supports you in this situation, that's pretty impressive. And, you know, if you share children, I think they do, right?
If you're thinking about the well-being of the children... Any little thing that maybe was a gray area or maybe went too far during your marriage, if it doesn't bother you at this point and you think your children will be much better off if their father has the job of all jobs. I mean, that's a hell of a job he's up for. Right. So I kind of like the fact that she's just loyal.
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Chapter 3: What happened with Pete Hegseth's accusations?
Literally, I want to see arrests in D.C. D.C. jail management, unless there's some part of the story that I'm missing. Again, you know, you have to be careful about the fog of war stories. It could be there's some fact that's different about D.C. Hard to imagine, though. So I think I'd like to see some arrests today.
Do you ever say to yourself, I'm just one person, I can't change anything important? A lot of people say that. But I've told you other times, one person can really change a lot. Here's an example, one of the best you'll ever see. So Mike Benz, thanks to the fact that X is a free speech platform, so Elon Musk gets the first credit for making it possible.
But if you're not following Mike Benz, where he's outlined in complete detail with numerous, just lots of different videos, and he's got a subscription site, and he's posting all the time. But I would say he alone has completely mapped the mechanism by which Democrats were censoring. And the way they were doing it is they were funding non-government groups in large numbers.
And those groups would act like they were independent groups, and they would get their censorship indirectly. So the government can't censor you, but apparently there was nothing stopping them from paying somebody who was not in the government to come censor you or try. So thanks to Trump and his executive order, The executive order banned every agency in the U.S.
federal government from outsourcing censorship work to third-party groups. That, as far as I can tell, is 100% because of one person, Mike Benz. Just hold this in your head for a moment. You might have just gotten free speech back because this was the entire censorship network of...
just evil that was so distributed, so hard to find, so hard to understand that it was safe, but not against one of the sharpest persons I've ever seen in public life. If you haven't watched Mike Benz put together the names and the organizations and find who knows who, who hired who, who works where, who used to work in the Obama White House, who used to work. If you don't know that stuff,
then just knowing that organizations exist doesn't help you at all. You have to have his filter on it, and then everything becomes visible. There's no way that Trump would have been comfortable signing that executive order without Mike Benz's work. And again, could Mike Benz have done what he did if Elon Musk had not done what he did? The answer is no.
I think that only X allowed him to do what he did, Ben's. So every time you say to yourself one person can't change anything, you just see so many examples where they are. You've seen Robbie Starbuck working on DEI. He's actually getting companies to change. You've seen Christopher Ruffo working on DEI. Huge impact. Very specific, measurable results. You've seen Scott Pressler.
Scott Pressler changed a whole state. So I would go beyond my point that I think is good, which is we do live in an age where one person can change the world. In the Trump world, it's the way it usually happens. You could almost point to one person for every executive order. There was one person who was like the person who took the arrows.
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Chapter 4: Why was Ross Ulbricht pardoned?
But this is part of the new golden age where you could be an individual who says, I'm just going to take this hill. And if I take it, I can hand it off to Trump. So Benz just took the hill. I've never seen so much work, good, productive, on-point work,
took the hill he handed it to trump then trump just he just owned it incredible in other news john bolton got stripped of uh not only his security clearance um for being a prominent anti-trumper who used to work for trump but he is also stripped of his secret service detail Now the question, this is reported in Breitbart by Elizabeth Wiebel. Here's my question. How many people in the U.S.
government have a Secret Service protection that is out of the norm? So it's normal for presidents and vice presidents and ex-presidents. But how many people who are not one of those, presidents or ex-presidents or ex-VPs, how many of them have Government paid Secret Service. Now, apparently Biden was the one who approved it.
And if I read between the lines, I think it means there's somebody like Iran, probably Iran, that made threats. because John Bolton probably said something about bombing Iran. I didn't follow him too closely, but I think it's something like that. However, so I'm going to give you my first impression and then my second one. My first impression was, this isn't cool.
If he has secret service that even Biden said, yeah, this is worth paying for, you have to take that pretty seriously. So let me say that if something happened to Bolton, and it was because he lost his Secret Service detail, I'm going to call this an error by Trump. There's no way I'm going to be happy about that.
That would be a pure error if something happens to Bolton because Trump treated him like a political enemy. Not cool. And I want to make sure that I'm establishing a standard going forward. With great power comes great responsibility. Trump has acquired great power, but with a great responsibility.
We, as the voters who have supported him, are part of that great power structure, and we also have great responsibility to control it. Now, I don't mean controlling Trump. That's impossible. But I do mean that if any lines are crossed that would violate what Trump supporters think is a reasonable, human, common-sense line, we need to be loud about that. Because otherwise you become a Democrat.
If you just put up with ridiculousness and bad performance, I'd call you a Democrat, basically. So if the Republicans are the team of meritocracy and not the team of pettiness and ridiculousness, then you've got to act like it. As a supporter, you've got to make sure. Now, the beauty of the system, the way Trump has it set up, is he reads the room so consistently...
that if he did something that his base just went, oh, that's a little too far, I think he'd adjust. So I think that that is a very productive power balance that he needs. He needs it. It's good for him. It's good for the country, and it's good for you. So it's a little bit tough love in both directions, and that's a really good place to be. That said, so I'm not on board with,
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Chapter 5: How does government censorship work?
Now, again, I wasn't in the room when any of this allegedly happened, so I don't know if that's an accurate characterization of what he said. So I'm going to put a fog-of-war warning on this one. This could turn out to be not exactly what he said. But there are reports. So investigative reporter Paul Sperry I think he's the one who's got the scoop on this.
And he says Jake Sullivan wants the underlings to basically thwart him like some underlings did on the first term. All right. So does that sound right? Does that sound true to you, that the Biden administration literally is asking people to sabotage Trump from within? It does. Do you know why it sounds real to me? Because it's not policy.
If you told me that Jake Sullivan had some good policy ideas and he shared it with the staff, I would have said, I don't think so. Come on. Good try. Good try. Yeah, he's talking about policy. But you're telling me that one of the Biden administration did something destructive, anti-American,
treasonous and weasley i would say all right probably yeah i mean not 100 you know i wasn't there so anonymous reports anonymous reports are not terribly reliable but it's certainly within the realm of things i could believe not policy though well trump and dei is going just the way we want um So Trump has put out an order that you better not be hiding the DEI in other functions.
And he gave the warning to universities and colleges as well as the government. Don't just change the name and keep doing what you're doing. DEI is gone. But... how much trouble would you get into? I mean, he's saying that if you try to hide it and you keep doing it, you're going to pay a price. Getting fired, I suppose, would be the price.
But at the same time, he did an order getting rid of affirmative action as the rule of the I guess the law of the land, affirmative action. So affirmative action, of course, is the precursor to DEI, but it was the less harmful version. Affirmative action is what cost me my job in banking. It's what cost me my job in telecommunications. It's what cost me my time slot for the Dilbert TV show. And
It hasn't been a good friend to me. So since my 20s, I've been victimized by affirmative action. And that's not a whine. That's just an objective statement and at least 80 million people. white men will tell you the same thing. We all have the same story, by the way. All of us have the same story. There's probably 80 million of us. If you say to me, and people have, oh, Scott, prove it.
Give me some evidence that you really were hurt by affirmative action. I don't have to. You can literally walk out on the street. If you see a white man walking toward you who is 50 years older or older, and he's white, Tap them on the shoulder and say, I got this question for you. Do you know anybody or have you ever been affected by affirmative action? The answer is going to be yes.
Anybody you pick, literally anybody. So I don't need to prove anything to you. Just walk in the street, find anybody over 50 who's white. They all have the same story. The fact that you didn't know the story, well, that's on you. That's on you. Because the reason they don't tell the story is because it's dangerous. Same reason I didn't do it until I wasn't worried about getting canceled.
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Chapter 6: What are the effects of AI surveillance on society?
So if you're not up to date on what the BRICS is, that's the, I don't know if it's a loose association or a strong association that has Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and includes Iran and Saudi Arabia and UAE and Argentina and Egypt and Ethiopia. So what that group is trying to do
is get away from the dollar as their main currency and have some kind of currency of their own, which would be bad for the dollar and bad for the United States in ways that would take longer to explain. But I think we're all on the same page, right? I think everybody agrees that having other countries being, I hate to say forced, but that's what it is, forced to use the U.S.
dollar gives us some advantages as a country. And they're big ones. So Trump basically just threatened them and said they're going to get 100% tariff if they try to replace the U.S. dollar. Now, should we be threatening other countries in their own decisions about what kind of money they use? It's pretty gutsy.
On the other hand, tariffs are always part of normal business and tariffs are part of normal negotiations and And Trump is saying exactly what he wants and how he wants it and when he wants it, like right now, stop doing this. And he put a price on it. All right, the price is 100% tariff, or at least they think that's the risk.
So I kind of love this because I see it not so much as his legal right to do anything like this, but it's not illegal to say we won't have it and there will be a price to pay. So he's definitely using the power of the U.S. and he's wielding it in a very clean way. It's very clean. So I could find a hundred ways to dislike this if it were unclear.
But there's something about the clarity of it and how obviously pro-American it is that just makes me say, you know, it feels like an overreach. We shouldn't be getting in their business in that exact way. But we can, and if we do it clearly, and it helps the United States stay strong, you can make an argument that everybody's better off. Well, not everybody.
But a strong America isn't the worst thing for the world, so it's not like one direction is evil. Well, Trump has also threatened to increase Canada's tariffs by 25%. We assume that that's a negotiating first position. Doesn't mean it will be the permanent situation.
So I don't know exactly what he wants, but I know he wants better deals and he wants the border to be closed and he may want more than that. But good beginning negotiating practice. You know, Trump's tariff threats are much stronger because he created the External Revenue Service recently, saying that we're going to start making money from tariffs and various external sources.
The fact that he created it all gives a lot of credibility to that he would use it as a weapon. And now people can negotiate tariffs knowing he's going to use it. If you didn't know for sure he was going to tariff you and you thought that was a bluff, you might treat it like a bluff. But once he's created an entire department to take your money, it's hard to see it as a bluff anymore, isn't it?
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Chapter 7: What are the challenges surrounding presidential pardons?
Chapter 8: Why is John Bolton under scrutiny?
When Trump orders something he does not have authority for, and I think this is one, but is so clearly and unambiguously good for everybody. It's just common sense. Who's going to fight it? Are the Democrats going to fight it because they can? Are the Democrats going to fight to keep TikTok banned? They can't fight that.
The Democrats can't take the other side because they want their public to get TikTok too. So Trump is finding himself in this weird little situation where where it came publicly overtly and obviously ignore the law in the very, just a tactical way. It's not really an important, important point. It's just a little technical thing, but because the common sense argument is just overwhelming.
All you get, I think is the editorial board warning you that this is a little bit over the line. Remember what I told you before? with great responsibility, or with great power comes great responsibility. This is a good job by the Wall Street editorial board. It's a good job.
Because what I want to see when Trump goes a little extra, even if it's completely satisfied by an appeal to common sense, which this is, I want somebody in the press to say, just so you know, this is going over the line. It's not a line that I respect. I like the common sense more than some technical bureaucratic bullshit.
So I'm real happy about it, but I like, I like the fact that the wall street journal says, now let's be clear right about this. Just, just know what's happening. If this worries you, now you understand it. That's all good. Golden age. All right. I don't know if that deal will get done. We'll see. Maybe. Um, So apparently the European Union has some AI rules that they put in place.
And I saw some opinions on this by a gentleman on X named Ole Lehmann. I think he's a German. So he had some insight in this. And he said the EU just passed the world's first comprehensive AI regulation. And it creates a massive new oversight office. It has fines up to 35 million or 7% of your global revenues. Oh, my God. That's a pretty big fine. 7% of your global revenues.
Imagine if you're OpenAI or something. You're one of the biggest ones.
That's a lot.
So it also includes, just for the European Union, mandatory human oversight for basic AI tasks. What? What? mandatory human oversight for basic AI tasks. What? Do I even need to talk about that? If a human has to overlook and check everything the AI does, how can the AI ever replace a job? Or, I mean, that's pretty heavy. Training data disclosures.
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