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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization?
Come on. Technology. Technology. Come on. There we go. It's all working. Boom. 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 day.
But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stand, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day. Shut up.
The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. All right, I have to come clean. My local subscribers already know this, but my coffee maker is broken. And my other coffee maker is broken. So my main coffee maker and my backup coffee maker, neither of them are working. So this was not actual coffee.
And it just ruins the whole experience, let me tell you. Anyway, but enough about that. Happy St. Patrick's Day. I'm a little bit Irish. A little bit. I'm more Irish today because it's St. Patrick's Day, but a little bit Irish. Speaking of other countries, there's a French lawmaker who is calling for the return of the Statue of Liberty because I guess he doesn't like Trump. So that's normal.
Chapter 2: What does Scott Adams think about the Statue of Liberty?
And I don't think we should return the Statue of Liberty. What do you think? I don't think we should. But I've got an idea of just rotating it 180 degrees and removing the torch and replacing it with a finger. So that the statue is just giving the finger to France. Okay, that would be funny. But I...
But I do think the Democrats probably would agree with getting rid of the Statue of Liberty because have you noticed that the Statue of Liberty has been giving a Nazi salute? Yeah. They sort of trick you by putting the torch in the hand, but that just makes it worse. It's like it's a Nazi salute and you want to burn everything down with your torch. I think that should be deeply condemned.
and we should remove the Statue of Liberty and give it back to France, you know, after we change the torch to a finger. Well, believe it or not, according to SciPost, there's a study about twins that suggests that it turns out, you won't believe this, this will be hard to believe, but rational thinking is genetically linked to intelligence, and it challenges the idea that
that decision-making is a separate skill. So in other words, they found out that you can't teach stupid people how to be smart by teaching them how to think. Now, I could have saved them a little bit of time because I once tried to teach my dog to read, and she just refused. She never learned to read. But no, it is not true that you can teach.
Chapter 3: How is rational thinking linked to intelligence?
You cannot teach dumb people to be smart by teaching them how to think better. You know, Bob, I've been noticing that you're a freaking moron, but I think I can fix that with a few tweaks. Did you know that if you were to look at, let's say, the information pro and con, you would get a better result? Really? I could? I should look at the information on both sides of the issue?
Yes, you should, Bob. Why don't you try that next time? All right, I will. And then what does Bob do? Does Bob look at the information on both sides of the issue next time because you taught Bob how to be a better decision maker? Nope. Bob will forget that advice before you turn around and walk out the door because Bob is not smart.
It's been my observation that all smart people tend to think alike, rationally. It's definitely genetic. Now, I will say, though, I will say that if you're starting with a smart person, you can definitely teach them some extra tools, such as how to spot fake news. That's useful, right? I've been teaching most of you how to do that, and most of you do now.
So you'll often say to me, oh, that one's too on the nose. That's one of the things I teach you. Oh, there's just one source and it's anonymous. That's one of the things I teach you, et cetera. So you can teach smart people how to be even smarter. But if you're trying to teach a dumb person how to think like a smart person, good luck with that. Could have just asked me, save a little time.
Here's a story that makes my heart sing. The Trump administration is targeting 45 universities over their anti-white discrimination. Hannah Nightingale of the Post Millennial is writing about this. So instead of making decisions or having any kind of policies that are race related, they're being challenged to get rid of that stuff.
And the universities are going to be in a little trouble because one of the things that the Trump administration seems to be willing to use as a tool is removing federal funding for research and grants, which apparently, I didn't know this until recently, is such a major funding for a lot of the big schools that if they lost the federal research and grant money,
they'd be in real financial trouble. I mean, it's a major source, I guess. Anyway, so this is especially satisfying to me that essentially the DEI stuff has become illegal. And when I say become illegal, it was always illegal. It's just we didn't treat it that way until Trump. So you might remember that this is about... Right now, it's about two years since I got canceled.
Does anybody remember me getting canceled? Of course you do. Now, the interesting thing about my cancellation is I realized the other day that my lasting legacy, the way I'll be remembered by search engines and AI, will be two things that didn't happen. So my primary legacy will be based on things that didn't happen, that aren't true.
Number one, that I gave a racist rant, and that's why I got canceled. That didn't happen. I was ranting against racism. Very specifically, I was against people who were racist. And I said, wow, why would I want to live with a bunch of racists? I would want to live where they're not, which is literally what every single person in the world would agree with.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Trump's auto pen pardons?
So it seems like a network of people who boosted each other. And many of them were amplified by based Mike Lee. And the targets were all male. The targets were all male. That's interesting. So Data Republican said that her current leading theory is that it's a terrorist campaign targeting X and influencers connected to Elon Musk's.
And then somebody said, but what about the fact that they might be anti-Ukraine? And Data Republican, this is why she's so good, she says that the anti-Ukraine doesn't add much signal, meaning that since most of the conservative world is anti-Ukraine at the moment, you can't really say these ones got swatted because they're anti-Ukraine, because sort of everybody was. So I don't know.
So I guess the theory that it's anti-Elon Musk I would say that's a possibility. Could be just anti-Trump. I don't know. But it could be stochastic terrorism, which is just making it easier to attack a certain group of people who speak out. But we'll see. We'll see. That's a good analysis. I don't think it gives us an answer.
But maybe it defines things a little bit better so we know what to look for. And maybe it will have an effect. If the analysis got anywhere near the truth...
it might slow it down because now we would be looking for these signals we'd say okay uh did you say anything about did you interact with elon musk etc now even the interacting with elon musk thing uh to me that's not much of a signal because musk does interact with a whole bunch of people and multiple times sometimes. So he's interacted with me a number of times. And so, I don't know.
He's interacted with so many people. I'm not sure that that's the signal it looks like. Anyway, President Trump says he's going to talk to Putin tomorrow. And doesn't it seem to you like that's way too long to wait?
I mean, just think about the fact that there are people in ditches shooting at each other and dying around Kursk and all around the front lines, because I assume the fighting continues. is just going crazy even though they're talking peace. So it's just so weird that you'd say, hey, can I call you tomorrow? Is there really no reason they can talk today? Are they not prepared?
Did they have something more important? There are people literally just getting torn to pieces on the front lines for no reason. because it looks like things are going to wind up. So anybody who gets killed or wounded today, that's a complete waste of humanity. So I just don't know how you say, hey, you available tomorrow? Is tomorrow good? Today is good. Like right now is good. That's how I feel.
Now, if we got something done tomorrow that was important, I'd be pretty happy about it. But this whole thing about, you know, if you're serious about ending the killing, tomorrow is really too long. But on the other hand, you don't want to act too eager because that might hurt your negotiating position. But really? How about today? That's my take.
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Chapter 5: What is the analysis of conservative swatting incidents?
And the reason is they're both too smart. If Trump did a walk away, Putin would say, that's not real. He'll come back. If Putin did a walk away, Trump would say, that's not real. He'll come back. So I think they both know each other well enough that a walk away would just look sort of stupid. Because you're dealing with two people who are way above the line.
They both understand how everything works, right? There's no dumb one and no smart one. They're just two brilliant people who know how to do this, exactly. If you know how to do this, which is negotiate the hard stuff, and they do, then the walkaway is a little bit unnecessary. The walkaway is sort of what you do if you're dealing with somebody who's just not good at it.
or somebody who is at least not world class at it. So I'm going to predict this would be one of those rare negotiations with no walk away. Which is a bold, that's a pretty big prediction because you just normally see a walk away. I just don't think there will be in this case because the quality of the two people negotiating.
Well, Putin said he wants an ironclad guarantee that Ukraine will not join NATO.
now do you remember when the head of nato said nope there's no chance that ukraine is going to be part of nato and then you realized okay that was after talking to trump so probably trump is the one who told nato to say there's no way ukraine's going to be part of it and then you said to yourself but wait trump's giving away something for nothing like we don't have a deal yet
Like, why would he give that away? Wouldn't that be the thing that you would keep as your negotiating card? And then you say to yourself, is that really giving anything away? How could you ever give an ironclad guarantee that nobody will ever change their mind about Ukraine joining NATO? You can't. All it would take is somebody to say, oh, I changed my mind. That's it.
So if Trump and NATO say, yep, we guarantee it, there's no way Ukraine will ever be part of NATO, what exactly are they giving up? Nothing. That's literally nothing. Because Putin knows they can just change their mind. And they know They could just change their mind. Now, they wouldn't do it unless, probably unless situation changed.
But if the situation changed, you don't think they could NATO up in about five minutes? Yeah, if they wanted to, and they had some strategic reason to do it, yes. Now, I don't think they want to, and I don't think they'll have that strategic reason. But it's a weird one, because the thing that Putin wants the most is the cheapest to give to him. It literally doesn't cost anything.
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Chapter 6: What are the challenges in negotiating with Putin?
And it doesn't even bind us. Because if it became an important security consideration, yeah, Ukraine would get NATO'd up in five minutes. So how in the world could you guarantee such a thing? Now, on the other side, Putin has the same situation. We'd like him... to guarantee that if we make a deal, he won't make a move on the rest of Ukraine at some later date.
How in the world could that ever be guaranteed? It can't. So the two things that the sides want, the most important two things, you know, one wants NATO and the other wants a guarantee that there will be no future attacks. That's something that both sides can say, okay, because it's not giving away anything. There's no asset there. It's nothing.
You're not giving away anything because both sides could just change their mind tomorrow. And it's not like we can ask for collateral, right? We can't say, I'll tell you what, we'll hold Moscow as collateral. And in case you attack, we get to keep Moscow. No. There's no way you can put collateral on it. What kind of guarantee could you ever come up with? Now, I'd love to be wrong.
I'd love to find out that there's some clever way you could guarantee this sort of thing, but I don't think so. So that would be the hard part. How in the world do you do something that would guarantee anything? when both of them absolutely need guarantees? I don't know. It's going to be really interesting. I do think they can get it done, but only because they're both incentivized to do it.
They both want it done. And they might trust each other, at least in the short run. But the long run, I don't know. Nothing can be guaranteed in the long run. Well, let's talk about the leaders of the Democrats. Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, was on Bill Maher's show. And Bill Maher was talking about him as a potential future leader of the Democrats.
And he said that the people said that you, Josh Shapiro, couldn't become the VP choice to Kamala Harris because you're Jewish and that wouldn't be successful the way our country is. And Josh Shapiro had just the best answer to that.
Now, it's not a complete answer because he was talking about being governor, but he said when he ran for governor, his first ad featured his Friday night Shabbat, where because of his Jewish faith, every Friday he'd be gathering with friends and family and having a celebratory meal. very much in the Jewish tradition kind of a dinner.
So instead of hiding from it or, well, hiding is the wrong word, instead of downplaying his religion and just saying stuff like, oh, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, he just opened the door and said, here it is. Here's what we do. I like my religion. You like your religion. Let's talk. Now, to me, that was one of the most brilliant moments things he could have ever done.
Because here's what I know about people. People will distrust anything they're unfamiliar with. It's just sort of a reflex. So it's not like people would be necessarily anti-Semitic. It would just be something different. And they'd say, I'm not sure I understand that, or I know it, or I don't know anybody who is Jewish, they might say. So I'm not sure I trust it.
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Chapter 7: Who are the current leaders of the Democratic Party?
So how in the world, how in the world will they ever go back in power? Anyway, speaking of Jasmine Crockett, she was talking about Trump using that what I like to call the Adams era law. Now, this is referring to President John Adams.
And you know the story that Trump used the Alien Enemies Act from 1798, which would allow the president to detain or deport non-citizens from an enemy country during war. And I think he set the He set the stage for that by declaring that these Trenda or Wagwa gang members were terrorists.
So suddenly, if they're terrorists and they're coming from another country, you're pretty close to saying that you're at war with them and that the president can kick them out.
As the airplanes were in the air to deport these very people, there was a judge, of course, it's going to be an Obama appointee, lefty judge that they found, questioned the use of the law in this particular context and said that those planes need to turn around even if they're already in the air.
Apparently, and it's being credited to Stephen Miller, they had rushed the flights so that by the time the judge ruled, the flights were already in international waters. And the counter argument is going to be, hey, that ruling doesn't apply. because these people are not even in the United States anymore. They're in international waters.
And then they landed, and sure enough, El Salvador processed them and put them in the El Salvador prisons. So we'll see if that gets reversed. If it does get reversed, then people like Jasmine Crockett, who are arguing against it, once again... are going to be on the ridiculous side. Now, I realize that Jasmine's argument has some nuance to it. She's not saying I like evil gang members.
She's saying if the president is allowed to use this rule in that way, it will be expanded and he'll do bad things in the future. But you notice that a lot of the complaints about Trump are things that they imagine he would do in the future. Which is the weirdest kind of complaint, because you can say that about everybody all the time.
It's like, well, you know, I like this candidate, but I worry that they'll round everybody up and murder them in the future. Is there any evidence that they want to do that? No, no. But based on the fake news I've been reading, it sounds like exactly the sort of thing they do in the future. All right.
Anyway, so Trump wants to deport gang members any way he can, and the Democrat argument about it is, according to Jasmine Crockett, the argument against getting rid of these dangerous gang members any way we can is blah, blah, should use a scalpel, blah, blah, concept, blah, blah, vague fear of the future. They really have nothing.
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