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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization discussed in this episode?
That's what I like to see. I'm ready. Are you ready? 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. But if you'd like to take it up to doge levels, you know what I mean? All you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or tails to style in a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.
Chapter 2: What does the simultaneous sip represent?
Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better and happens right now. It's called the simultaneous sip. Go. So, so good. There are two of them. I don't think there are two of them. Or are there? Well, let's see what's new.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of the DeepSeek legislation?
Josh Hawley, Republican, has introduced some legislation to make it illegal to use that new cheap AI from China called DeepSeek. Now, I think it's been tabled, which means that it doesn't have much chance of coming to a vote. But do you remember my prediction about DeepSeek? And people said, oh, no.
China figured out a cheaper way to do things, and everybody's going to use this, and it's going to destroy the American AI industry. Do you remember what I said? I said, no. Eventually, there will be laws against it. There will be regulations. There will be tariffs.
There will be some damn thing that the US government will have to protect our AI industry, and the way we'll do it is make it somehow impractical or illegal to use the Chinese version. And here we are. Now, this particular effort might not pass, but you can see what's coming, right? The government is not going to let you use a free Chinese AI. That's just not going to happen.
And if they did, it would be the dumbest thing that we ever did. It would be the TikTok risk times a trillion. I mean, this isn't a tough decision. It will be illegal. or impractical or kneecapped or something, or has to run on an American server. By the way, did you see Trump the other day? I guess it was yesterday.
He was in the Oval Office, and as he likes to do now, he was signing an executive order but chatting with reporters. And then there were two visitors to his office who makes you wonder why they were there at the same time. They just came in to watch the event. One of them was Larry Ellison, and the other was Rupert Murdoch. Now, these are two people that Trump knows pretty well.
And Larry Ellison was also there not long ago. So it seems like Larry Ellison, Larry Ellis, seems like he's in the White House a lot recently. What do you think that's about? I'm going to go out on a limb. and say it could be that the reason Larry Ellis and Rupert Murdoch were there at the same time, I wonder if they're going to invest in TikTok.
Do you think that maybe they would be involved in that, or at least Ellis? So I've got a feeling there's going to be an announcement soon about some American entity buying the TikTok assets, but not the algorithm. So look for that, and don't be surprised If you see some billionaires, pardon her up to do that because it's expensive.
So Trump, apparently, he's suing the Pulitzer Prize board members for what he would consider giving a prize for the fake news that was reporting on the Russia collusion hoax. So imagine... being the writers for the New York Times, and you're writing about the Russia collusion like it's real. Turns out none of it was real, but you missed the entire story.
Everything that mattered about the story was that it wasn't real. That was the story. So the people who got the Pulitzer Prize I don't know how many people are involved, but New York Times got Pulitzer Prize, one of the writers at least, didn't get anything right and got a Pulitzer Prize. So this seems a little extreme to go after the Pulitzer Prize committee.
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Chapter 4: Why is Trump suing the Pulitzer Prize board?
And the news came out that there was money for reproductive health services. Now, you could argue that we shouldn't be spending it. But if you're going to give aid to Gaza, and you say, what's the thing they need most? Well, I would think somewhere in the top three or top five would be reproductive health. I mean, that's got to be right near the top of anybody's requirements.
So the big question would be aid or no aid. If you're going to do the aid, you might as well do the things that people need the aid for, and that would include all manner of reproductive things. Condoms would be very low on the list, but Maybe. I mean, it's better than unwanted pregnancies, I suppose, especially in that situation.
So I think Trump took the 50 million and took it up to 100 million just because he's Trump, so he can. Now, there was also a separate story that the Gaza was not Gaza as in Israel's fight with Gaza, but there's another place called Gaza in Africa. Have you heard of this part?
So apparently there was some aid that may have also included reproductive health, which means it might have also included some condoms for a place called Gaza in Africa. Now, I'm not sure if that's true or not. But here's the thing. There was never $50 million just for condoms for Gaza. So if you thought that was 100% true, it wasn't 100% true. But was it directionally true?
Hmm.
Yes-ish, meaning that if it's in the category of reproductive health and it's a lot of money and it was going to the Gazans, yeah. I mean, it's directionally true, but it sounds pretty bad when you say it's just condoms. So I don't mind when Trump exaggerates things that are directionally accurate, which is we should take a look at why we're giving anybody any money for anything.
That's okay with me. Let's take a closer look. Do you remember when Trump turned on the spigots and created all that free water for California when we needed it the most? Do you remember what I said? I said, really? Really? He just said, open the spigot, and then all the problems were solved? That doesn't sound real to me. So,
I've been looking into it and looking into it, and then the next thing I found was that the water situation in California is way too complicated for anybody to understand and explain. It's just too complicated. But the best I can determine is that not all the water is connected. So even if you turn the spigot in one part of the state, it doesn't mean that the firefighters in L.A.
are getting any more water. And indeed... Apparently they did not. But, but you're saying, well, that's okay. As long as the farmers got more water, there is no indication that any farmers got more water, but that's okay. As long as we don't run out of water for residents, you know, because sometimes we have to have to manage our water in California and we have to cut back.
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Chapter 5: What is the controversy surrounding the Gaza condom funding?
So you have to be good to your subjects in a fairly public way to stay in business. So here's what would seem to you like a very inappropriate edit, and you could argue it isn't appropriate. But I'm going to only tell you the context, how normal it is. So let's say if what Kamala Harris did was stumble over a question, but maybe she circled back to it in another part of the interview.
This is not what happened. I'm just giving you a for example. So let's say the first time she maybe heard the question wrong or she used the word wrong or she stumbled over a word. But then a minute later, She circled back because she knew she didn't give a good answer and then gave you a nice, tight answer.
Well, you could argue that showing both answers would be more true because you could see that she messed up one answer, but then you'd see that she got a tight, nice answer when she thought about it for a moment. It would be completely normal for the editors to take out the muffed-up answer because it makes a cleaner video. Oh, this is what she thinks. She said it once not so well.
She said it once well. Let's show the one where she said it well. Would that be, do you get sued for that? Well, maybe, because in the context of a political race, can this person think and talk at the same time is a real big question. If it were a celebrity, just let's say any Hollywood celebrity,
you would absolutely make that edit and it would be the right thing to do because you just want the right, you want them to look good. You want the audience to like it. You don't want them to see all the, you know, tripping over their own words. So yes, that would be an appropriate edit.
So where it gets interesting is that the only context where that kind of tightening up editing is inappropriate or at least questionable is is the exact thing that they were doing, which is introducing the country to Kamala Harris in a tense situation. Under that very specific situation, the public kind of needs to see the whole thing because it's the stumbling over the words that is the show.
That's the meat. That's not the fluff that you cut off the top. Oh, let's get rid of some fluff and get down to the meat. No, the meat would be when she flubbed something because that's exactly what everybody was looking for. So I think the Trump people have an argument, but I think I'm going to side with 60 Minutes only on the sense that I don't think they can win if it went to court.
They might settle. And that would be a win in itself. But I don't think they could win in court because it's too close to normal. Too close to normal. It isn't. Like I said, it's a special case, but I don't think it's enough of a special case to convince a jury. Well, so Jake Tapper was talking to Democrat Chris Murphy yesterday.
And Chris Murphy was listing all the terrible things about, I don't know, Elon Musk and Trump or whatever. But one of the things in his list, Chris Murphy's list, was that Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute. And I'm watching this and I'm saying to myself, is Jake Tapper going to let that go? Is he going to let him say that Musk made a Nazi salute when we know that's not true?
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Chapter 6: How does Trump handle negotiations with Canada and Mexico?
that the entire election the republicans were lying about the 2025 and the news was right all along exactly the opposite happened unbelievable anyway um according to the bbc in the news uh The BBC, they say they're confident, according to their experts, their experts are confident that the L.A. fires were being made worse by climate change. Hmm. Let's see, how can you be confident about that?
Was it because one of your climate models said that L.A. would have a fire this year? No. No, there was no model that said that. So if you don't have models that can predict what's going to happen in any one microlocation, Why would you say that your models are telling you that that was going to happen in that micro location? Wait till you find out about climate models.
I know many of you watching this are skeptical about climate change and the climate models in particular. But wait till you find out. We're going to talk about USAID and finding out the deepest, darkest, most corrupt part of the government has been discovered. And it probably blew your mind when you first started learning about USAID. Wait till you find out about the climate models.
It's the only thing I can say with complete certainty. Oh, there will be a day. Might not be that far away. But someday there's going to be a whistleblower. And somebody who actually works on the models is going to tell you how they do it. And you're not going to like it. And this is one that I can wait forever for. You know, sometimes I'll make a prediction and it's like 20 years off.
And I'll be like, I can wait. You can mock me for 20 years. I'll just wait. And there it is. But yeah, wait till you find out about the models. All right. So the other things that are sort of fake news is there's no Panama deal. Panama made an offer to get rid of the Chinese operators of the canal in two years when the deal was going to expire.
When that was reported by many people as a big success, I said, there's no deal. That's an offer. Until Trump says there's a deal, you don't have a deal. That's just an offer. And so what did Trump say when he was asked about it? He goes, we'll see. We'll see. It's not everything I want. So Trump was still negotiating. So no, we don't have a deal on Panama. We have an offer.
The offer seems like a, I would say a good faith offer. I hope so. But Trump may say, good faith or not good faith, our national interest requires something extra, maybe something faster, maybe something that involves, I don't know, could be something else. So Trump being good at negotiating doesn't just say yes to the first offer. He says, that's a good start. What else can you give me?
Because you're not there yet. So he knows how to do this. So trust him. He knows how to do it. Likewise, the Mexico deal is not exactly a deal until a lot of other things are decided. But it does appear that Mexico says they're going to put 10,000 people on the border. And Canada may also not be the deal that we think it is, meaning that they may not be able to do the things that he said.
There was a whole bunch of offers that came out of Justin... Trudeau's office, he posted it on X. He was going to do things like create task forces to work on fentanyl, put lots of bodies on the border, have a whole bunch of fentanyl related, you know, legal efforts. So it was a pretty long list and it looked pretty serious and it looked like kind of exactly what you'd want them to do.
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Chapter 7: What are the criticisms of USAID funding?
and they have the ability to do so, and they've already got plans and operations to move out of your country, you're already closer to a state than a nation. Now, I'm not going to predict that Canada will become a state, but every time I think that things are a mile from possible, and then Trump keeps talking, and then something happens where I go, Really?
Could this actually tip in the direction of actually happening? We're watching Trump just change reality right in front of us. Like, what is possible? I'll tell you. I have mixed emotions about this one. My common sense, ha ha ha, I don't have any, tells me there's no way that Canada becomes a state. Just no way. But then I see stuff like that, that half of the companies want to get out of there.
And then Trudeau's already resigned. I don't know. Maybe they're not as much of a country as they think they are. Maybe it's closer than you think. I'll still bet against it. But Trump shaking the box that hard, it always works for him. Trump goes in and shakes the entire box. Well, we're going to make you a state. No, no, no, no, no, no. Well, we're going to put a tariff on you.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Well, how about you just do a whole bunch of things you weren't doing to secure the border? Okay. Watching Trump shake that box until they will take absolutely any path that gets the box to stop shaking. Because the thing they can't stand is the shaking. Oh, you've got to stop shaking this box. Well, what are you going to do for me?
Well, I'm not going to do anything for you. Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. Hey, I can do a little for you. Can you? Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. Oh, I can do a lot for you. I can do a lot for you. Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. I can do more than I've ever said I could ever do for anybody. Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake.
I can do more than anybody in the whole world has ever done for anybody. Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. Okay. It's fun to watch. One of the things that Trump does better than anybody when it comes to persuasion is creating a clear difference between making him happy and making him unhappy. Nobody does that better. If you make me happy, oh, man, I'm going to praise you.
Your career will look good. You're going to get votes. You're going to get funding. You'll be nationally loved. But if I don't like you, I'm going to primary your ass. I'm going to look at charges. I'm going to sue you. I'm going to basically take everything I have and put it against you. I'm going to tariff you. I'm going to put my military on your property. There is no better technique.
The single best technique is to make the widest gap between giving him what he wants and not giving him what he wants. Nobody does that better. And that is real basic persuasion. If you don't get that part right, you know who doesn't get that part right? Somebody like Justin Trudeau, right? Because he's the nice guy. Oh, we're nice, we're nice, we're empathy, we're nice. We're nice, we're nice.
Oh, oh, we're going to fight back hard. We don't like that. But we're nice, we're nice on the other things. We're nice, so be our friends. Oh, we have a mild displeasure with that thing you're doing. Oh, we don't like it. There's no difference between Justin Trudeau being happy and being unhappy. Like you don't feel any incentive to give him what he wants because he's a nice guy.
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Chapter 8: How is Elon Musk changing the AI landscape?
But you definitely feel an incentive to give Trump what he wants because the difference between happy and unhappy Trump is a really big difference. That's good stuff. That's the leader you want. Marco Rubio went to El Salvador and got a nice surprise.
So Bukele, head of El Salvador, who, as you know, cleaned up the gang problem in El Salvador by building gigantic prison systems and just locking up everybody with a tattoo. I'm exaggerating, but only a little bit. He pretty much locked up everybody with a face tattoo. I'm sure they had other charges, but I'm also sure that the face tattoo was plenty enough. So did that work?
Yes, because the gang members put face tattoos on. I'm exaggerating about the face tattoos to make a point that he just made sure he got everybody. And then he makes an offer to the US through Rubio that if America has a bunch of criminals from other countries... that he can take some of the criminals and put them in their prison system, and they'll just charge us.
So he'll just charge a fee, so we'll have a cheaper solution that keeps them in prison, but not in our prisons. And then I suppose when they get out, then it would be El Salvador's problem about what to do with them. I guess they'd repatriate them. I don't know. They would have an option. But that's a hell of a good offer, isn't it?
Every time you see Bukele's actions, they have a Trump-like quality to them, don't they? Like you don't see it coming, which is wonderful because then you can't stop talking about him and thinking about him because he did something that other people don't do. And, you know, he made a big point that El Salvador's most important relationship is the United States, biggest trading partner.
They use the U.S. dollar. And he just wants to make it super clear that being friends with him is a good idea and being against him is a really bad idea. Huh. Huh. Where do you learn that? So being against them means that you're going to be locked up in prison. Being for him means getting some excellent suggestions like, hey, how about we take some of your excess prisoners? You pay us.
We've got a prison system. They'll fit right in. That's what you need. So here's the real deal. who Kelly is in terms of persuasion. Right. Uh, if there's anything else that goes wrong with him, I don't take responsibility. The only, the only thing I'll take responsibility for is saying, Oh, he's got the full game. All right. He has a whole package.
So he, he does that thing where being his friend is a way better deal than not being his friend. He gets all of it. Right. Speaking of getting it right. Um, The big story on the Doge, we'll talk about Doge, is that there are some young people who have key roles. I don't know how many older people there are who also have key roles, but the ones we're talking about are four 20-ish year old kids.
I'll call them kids because I'm old, who are literally geniuses. And we're not talking about somebody who just did well on their SATs. We all know somebody who did well in their SATs. I know people who aced their SATs. I know a guy who got one wrong on his SATs. He was a server at my old restaurant, a young guy. He got one wrong, and he retook the SATs. He retook them because he got one wrong.
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