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Episode 2730 CWSA 01/24/25

Fri, 24 Jan 2025

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Chapter 1: What are the latest studies on caffeine and testosterone?

5.894 - 27.551 Scott Adams

Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. Wait, wait. I'm getting some breaking news. There's a new study. It turns out, I'm not making this up, but there's a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology,

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They found that caffeine consumption was associated with higher levels of testosterone and better erections. Well, sippers, I salute you. But if you'd like to join in, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass or tank or chalice or sign a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind, even a blood vessel if you know what I mean, Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day. Salute. Is that what salute means? Probably not. Probably not. It's a new meaning. All right. Well, you've probably heard the rumors by now. But people, they're just rumors that Barack Obama is about to have a Mic drop moment? A mic drop? That's right. If you're sitting at home, I'll give you a moment. Yeah.

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The rumor is there's going to be a mic drop moment. That's all I have to say on that. Anyway, according to Rasmussen, the Trump job performance is amazing. So the latest is that as of Thursday, 56% of likely U.S. voters approved of Trump's job performance for the first week. And guess what the overnight is? The overnight is Trump at 59% approval. Does that even seem possible?

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Chapter 2: What is the current approval rating of Trump?

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Now, Rasmussen gets a lot of Gets a lot of criticism from the Democrats. And part of the reason they get criticized is they're one of the most accurate pollsters. And they generally have a better view of better results on Trump than, let's say, the average of the other pollsters. But they're also closer. So they're consistently more right about Trump-related stuff. So this is incredible.

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59% approval. And I feel like... I feel like the criticism has just turned into nothing. We'll talk about all the stuff Trump's doing, but I'm just not seeing pushback anywhere. I mean, there's blah, blah, blah, but not really. It's like the whole country just said, we don't have to pretend anymore.

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Just let dad do what dad does, and we just don't need to pretend that we disagree with everything all the time automatically.

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unbelievably good but uh so now you know how trump's job performance is doing i would say that trump and the republicans are having in my lifetime maybe the best week they've ever had would that be fair to say would it be fair to say that in my entire lifetime there's never been a better week for republicans i think that's true i i can't think of any time that they got more done um

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Chapter 3: What legislation is being discussed in Mississippi?

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controlled the narrative, changed everything that needed to be changed. You know, did 201, by now it's X more. I mean, I've never seen anything like this. So we know that Trump's doing well and the Trump effect is in force, but let's not forget there's another major political party. And, you know, they could be doing good things too, but maybe getting overshadowed because of the news coverage.

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So I wanted to check in just to make sure Democrats are also getting some stuff done. And yes, it turns out Democrats have, they're making some inroads. Specifically, there's a Mississippi Democrat. I think it's his first year on the job. And he's introducing some legislation in Mississippi to make it illegal for men to masturbate. Because he thinks masturbation should be limited to reproduction.

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But he thinks that, according to the legislation, it would be okay if you wore a condom when you masturbated. I don't think I'm making that up. That's the way I read it. I think this is real. I'm not making any of this up. That's right. President Trump is reviving the economy...

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establishing America as the great superpower, putting 10,000 people on the border to close it for good, but not to be outdone, a Democrat in Mississippi is trying to make it illegal to masturbate. It would be, the first penalty would be $1,000. Yeah. And I just want to know how they get the information. Are you supposed to self-report? Is it like the gift tax? They just expect you to tell them?

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Chapter 4: What criticisms are being made against Corinne Jean-Pierre?

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So it's $1,000 for the first offense. The second one would be $5,000. And if you whack off three times... The third one would be $10,000. And all I'm thinking is if I lived in Mississippi, I'd be sitting there thinking, all right, it's $10,000. Maybe just twice. Anyway. That's real.

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This is also real, according to Bronchi, writing in Red State, that Corinne Jean-Pierre, the recent spokesperson for Biden, she's being profiled in Vanity Fair. Now you say to yourself, okay, I mean, Vanity Fair does sort of high profile, attractive looking people. She's an attractive person and she's high profile. So that makes sense. And then I read on, she wrote the profile herself.

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Okay, that's funny. Did she write a glowing profile of herself for Vanity Fair? It's actually called Vanity Fair. If it weren't called Vanity, it wouldn't be so funny that she wrote it herself. You know what I mean? But it gets funnier. Can anybody guess what she's blaming for her lack of success?

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If you guessed racism, if you guessed racism as what she's blaming for a lack of a screaming success, you'd be right. She says it's racism.

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Yep, yep.

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Imagine being alive and not being aware that for the past 40 years, 40 years, the best thing you could be is anything but a white man in terms of employment. For 40 years. It's been true, absolutely hard true for 40 years, that the worst thing you could possibly be is a white man in any kind of American job. The best thing, what's the best thing you could be for the past 40 years?

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Black, female, lesbian. It's number one in the entire stacking of the ridiculousness that the Democrats brought us for the last 40 fucking years, it's number one on the best thing you could possibly be for your career. There's nothing higher than that. But imagine being so fucking stupid you don't even know that. You don't even know that everything was stacked in your direction. That's amazing.

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40 years it's been true. And it hasn't been just a little bit true. It's been the most true, obvious, documented, ask any single person who's been alive and been in a corporate world for 40 years. It's the truest true thing that has ever been true. And she doesn't know it? What kind of a weird imaginary world is that like? So weird. The Wall Street Journal has an article.

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Now, I can't believe this is really being discussed. Hold in your mind all the conversations we've had on this topic, and then be amazed that it's a headline story today. Today, it's still a story, all right? The Wall Street Journal is reporting that, I guess there's maybe some changes that might be coming to the dietary guidelines in the United States from the government.

Chapter 5: How does the media landscape change under Trump?

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The cars are very good. But I like the brand. It felt right. Sometimes your personality or something matches a brand. But I don't want to be driving a dick car. So probably that'll push me into the Tesla Y. That's my guess. We'll see. That's not a final decision. AOC was on Jon Stewart's podcast. And they had great agreement and a good laugh over the question of

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Democrats being hypocrites by being in favor of insider trading. Now, both Stewart and AOC say directly it is insider trading, which is legal. It's specifically legal if you're in Congress. Now, I actually understand why they have that rule. I don't know. Has anybody explained to you why they have the rule that they can do insider trading?

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I'm sure it's just self-interest, but the rationalization would be that you would be essentially prohibiting them from just normal investing because sooner or later something they normally invest in is going to look like they had insider information. Next thing you know, they're going to get arrested for just making ordinary investments like every other American.

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So I'm actually quite sympathetic to allowing them to do it. But I think we should have more transparency. I think this is one where instead of banning it, let's just know exactly who's doing what. The midpoint, the only midpoint I can imagine is if they, and this might not be practical, if the Congress said to its members, don't invest in these topics because they're part of upcoming discussions.

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So get there before the discussion and say, we're going to put a moratorium just on Let's say these six companies just for a few months, because that's when we're going to have more information on the public. I don't know if there was a practical way to make that happen. That'd be good.

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Or alternately, just tell the public which things the Congress is talking about and then show us what people are investing in. Full transparency. And then when that person runs for election, their opponent says, well, you know, here's the watchdog list. Here's what they were talking about. Here's what he invested in. That could matter.

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I could see voters saying, yeah, that actually does matter to me. But AOC and Stewart both agree that what it does when Democrats are in favor of keeping it, which they are, that it makes them easy targets for Republicans to say, you hypocrites, look what you're doing. And interestingly enough, It's just interesting they're calling out their own side for this huge error.

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Now, I remember before Trump was president, if AOC and Jon Stewart were on a podcast, the one and only thing you would expect for that is dunking on Republicans. Instead, they dunked on Democrats. Hard. They dunked hard on Democrats. This is the Trump effect. Is it not? This is Democrats trying to figure out how to do something different from everything they've done.

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And AOC, whatever you want to say about AOC, I fully accept all the criticisms as often valid. But remember, I tell you that she is a unique person. character in that she can break frames sometimes. The rest of them can't do it. Fetterman can do it. Fetterman can break frame. Eric Adams, he can break frame. AOC can break frame. Now, that's not always, you know, good. It doesn't mean they're great.

Chapter 6: What are the implications of Trump's AI energy policy?

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And in some cases, they got some people who were in the same room, exactly like you said they would. Everybody's been warned. They know if you're in the same room as the person they're looking for, you're in trouble. So warning is all you can do. I mean, you got to do your job. And I guess they're doing it And they're doing it hard. So they got criminal gang members.

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They got people with all kinds of bad crimes, sex offenders. That's 538 people who aren't going to be offending again if they really go away and stay away. Trump signed some kind of executive order or he said he would approve power plants that are associated with AI data centers. So if you didn't know,

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AI requires so much processing, you have to build a whole data center, an enormous one, it's bigger than we've had historically, in order just to get to the next level of AI. But they use so much power that you would drain the grid. I think we need about twice as much energy as we anticipate having under baseline. So we got to really ramp it up.

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And Trump's take on this is, you know, you're going to do, you can do anything. You can use natural gas. That would be ideal. It's better than coal. But he's not going to limit what they can do. They can build a nuclear power plant, gas, geothermal, whatever it takes. Now, that feels to me like trying to win.

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In other words, keeping America strong and powerful and having the right energy profile is everything you need to win. I mean, it's the thing that feeds the military, the economy, everything.

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So having Trump say, I'm taking the controls, at least the useless controls, I'm taking the useless controls off of the energy program in the United States and then tying it to the AI stuff gives them a whole bunch of fans in the AI world, which is basically everybody who's paying attention and makes us competitive. Now, what's it do to the environment? Not ideal. Not ideal.

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But I think it was Chamath from the All In pod was saying that even if you wanted to build your own solar plant, because you want to be green, if you wanted to build your own giant solar facility to accompany your AI data center, you wouldn't be able to do it because the approval would take so long that it just wouldn't be a practical project. So Trump... This is a weird thing.

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Trump, by removing the ridiculous obstacles, could make solar power finally reach its potential. Because it's the environmentalists who tell you you have to do solar, and it's the environmentalists who tell you you can't. That's what Chamath is kind of explaining. You should see Chamath on the Tucker Carlson podcast. I haven't finished it yet, but like I said, it's

1643.277 - 1668.925 Scott Adams

It's the most eye-opening, jaw-dropping, incredible set of useful points that you should understand. It's really special. So you've got to watch that. So that's a big, big deal. If you're looking for some optimism, the story about allowing any kind of power plant is not stupid, but

Chapter 7: How is Trump addressing TikTok with a sovereign wealth fund?

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What's that worth to you? Unlimited? Everything? Well, what would it cost if I were to just buy Greenland? Oh, you couldn't afford it, Mr. President. That'd be almost a trillion dollars. Okay. So a trillion dollars if I buy it. But what if I don't buy it and also don't protect it? What's that worth to you?

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And the next thing you know, Trump makes a mining operation in Greenland, which wouldn't be economical because it's such a big investment and you don't know if you're going to get elbowed out by a foreign country. And Trump will just make that risk go away. Oh, no, they're not going to touch you. If you put a mining operation in Greenland and the U.S., The U.S.

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puts it there, and let's say they share some of their revenue with the locals more than they've ever had, quadruple the lifestyle of the locals and also protect them from any kind of foreign invasion. And maybe if Denmark wants to have some Commonwealth kind of connection, let them have it for historical reasons but not any real control, I think this deal can get done.

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I really think he can get this done. We'll see. But it's brilliant thinking, no matter what you think. Trump also signed an executive order to start the process, which could take a long time, to unleash the declassified documents on Kennedy and Kennedy, two Kennedys and Martin Luther King. And Trump says everything will be revealed. Now, I'm a little confused about something about this story.

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You're the president of the United States, and you have been the president of the United States at least four other years. The president is allowed, in theory, to see 100% of all secrets. I'm not wrong about that, am I? The president is allowed to see 100% of all secrets, no exceptions. I think that's what the system is. And yet the president doesn't act like he knows what's in those files.

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Now, it would be one thing not to know the details, but Kash Patel says he's seen them. So Kash has looked at them, and he's not giving us a hint what's in there, but says, yes, they should be released. Do you think that Trump has not once talked to Kash Patel and said, all right, I don't have time to look through all these documents, but are there any big surprises in there?

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Wouldn't Kash Patel be able to tell him Because Trump has the ultimate security clearance. Yes, I look through. And when the public finds out that X, Y, Z is true, that's going to be a big story. I don't think Trump has heard that. Because Trump's nature is that he's a tease. If he knew what was in there, I think he would have teased us and said, wait till you find out what's in there.

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That would be like a perfect Trumpism. But he didn't do that. He actually legitimately acts like he doesn't know what's in the files. Now, I think there's nothing in there.

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I think that if you're expecting that the government files say the government killed the president, well, that's a little bit unrealistic because it would be exactly the same people who controlled the files as allegedly would have killed the president. They didn't put it in a memo. No. I don't think there's any memos. It was before email.

Chapter 8: What are the highlights of Trump's speech at the World Economic Forum?

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And the AI would tell them how to do it. So the AI would say, yes, you want to download Python. put it on your computer. If you have a Mac, you do it this way. If it's Windows, you do it that way. And then the prompt will be here, and then you do this with the prompt, and you put it into Python, and then here's how you execute it.

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And he said, you know, my God, it was already so good that you could reduce your number of programmers. But with the new operator agent, the one I just talked about, all that last part, which is what literally stopped me from making an app, because I tried to make one too. I just couldn't figure out that last part because I was too distracted and busy.

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But now I could just say to it, hey, AI, write me an app that does this or that. Boom, it's done. Literally, that's all it takes. The app just appears, all the code does. And then that part where I didn't know what to do with the code, I just say, can you turn that into an app? Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-boom. it finds Python, it puts it where it needs to, it executes it, and there's your app. Unbelievable.

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Unbelievable. All right. Here's what Axios is reporting, speaking of Axios. Their headline said, Trump left Washington four years ago, touting a revolutionary new consensus on the threat posed by China. He returned this week, seeming to downplay that threat, signaling a potential thaw in relations between the two countries. Now, do you see the propaganda and brainwashing that's embedded in that?

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Let me call it out. When do you ever see the word tout? Somebody is touting something. Is that ever in a positive reference? Do people tout things and then the story is going to be about how great that is? Wow, it's great that they're touting. No, touting is a subtle insult that you're saying something that's maybe not true. It's built into a little skepticism. He's touting.

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The opinion is in the news, that you just choose your words and the opinion comes embedded with the news. So he's touting that there was a consensus about the threat of China, but now they're going to turn it into hypocrisy, because that's what the news does. To make it a story, it has to be an inconsistency or an hypocrisy.

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And the hypocrisy, they think, is that Trump was such a tough talker about China, but he says good things about Xi and Now he's talking about how we can work things out. You know what's missing, right? What's missing is this is exactly how Trump negotiates with foreign leaders every time, and he even explains it. You don't have to guess.

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He tells you, yes, I'm going to be very tough with Russia or China or whoever he's talking about, but I get along with the leader, and that's good for everybody because then you can have that talk And you can be as tough as you want because they're not going to take it personally because I like them personally. That is everything you want from your president in terms of negotiating.

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That is everything I want. I want them to be friendly enough with the leaders. They get every access conversation. Nothing is no just because of who's involved. And they get their, let's say, reputations benefited by that because it is a big benefit. And then they are in a position where they've gotten something for free because it didn't cost any money for Trump to say, yeah, she's great.

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