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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of Coffee with 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. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brain, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen jug or 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 at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Oh, that's some good stuff. Well, I have it on good authority that anxiety is high today for a lot of people. I think the news is making people anxious.
But I'm here to make that all go away. So all of your anxiety, you can already feel it draining out of your body, can't you? Oh, you can. You can. Do some Uberman breathing while you're listening. That's two long inhales through your nose, one after another, followed by exhaling out your mouth. You'll have to do it three times. Your whole body will feel different.
Chapter 2: How does coffee relate to health benefits?
But speaking of health, did you know that there's a new study? You won't believe it, but it turns out that coffee is good for you. there's a study the Journal of Nutrition is writing about in which they found out that consuming more than two cups of coffee, as long as it's not sweetened, it was associated with reduced overall cancer incidence and mortality. That's right.
Coffee can help you prevent cancer, according to science, which is never wrong. And this is kind of interesting. You know how for your entire life you've complained about how, yeah, they can't even predict the weather tomorrow. How are they going to do this or that when they can't even predict tomorrow's weather?
Well, apparently there's an AI-driven method, according to The Guardian, that will be able to predict the weather with very little resources. Something like a single researcher with a desktop computer. will be able to have more accurate forecasts than all the computers that they're using now to do forecasts with way less energy, thousands of times less computing power.
Chapter 3: What is Trump's executive order about the Department of Education?
So you'll be able to sit at your desk and predict what your weather will be tomorrow. How about that? So I guess the job of news weather person might be a risk when you could just go to your computer and it will have a better idea than all the experts. Well, as you know, Trump signed an executive order to get rid of the Department of Education and probably had one of the best
um i guess presentations where so he was surrounded by school-age kids who were all at their own little desks and they all had their own little executive orders so he signs his executive order while the kids are signing their executive orders it was impossibly cute
But the funny thing is, you know, the reason that they're getting into the Department of Education, the critics say it's bad for the children. So he surrounds himself with all these happy children. And then Trump says that giving the power back to the states might be Better for the teachers than what they were getting before. So it's good news for the teachers.
But the executive order can't actually get rid of it. You still need Congress to vote on it. I guess he thinks he has the votes. If only the Republicans agree, they can vote it out. But the executive order can kind of gut it. It can stop it from functioning, even though it still exists. So that's happening.
But yeah, Trump says teachers will be, quote, better rewarded with the education in the hands of the states. Now, let me give you how the news has treated this. Don't you think the most important question about the Department of Education is, is what will be different if it doesn't exist? How many of you can answer that question?
Most of you, if you're a Republican, your answer to the question would be, well, I guess it didn't do anything because scores of tests never went up. So I guess it never did anything. But that's a little oversimplified. Don't you think? A little oversimplified? And then the Democrats are being told it will be the end of education or something.
They think it will cut funding for the disabled and cut funding for low-income people. But it hasn't even been decided if the funding that was once in the Department of Education... will be distributed to the states. So we don't even know if it will cut anything. It might just be a, you know, less administrative costs because you just get rid of an entire department.
But maybe, maybe the disabled will get the same amount of money. It'll just be distributed to the states instead. Maybe. So nobody really even knows what this is. This is one of the biggest stories in the country. And how many of you even knew what would be cut or what would be different? I would say almost none of us.
I had to actually do a little research even to get as far as I got, and I don't think I quite understand it. So it's kind of a funny one. I think Trump's doing a good job of just acting like no scores went up and So I guess we're in good shape. Anyway, so if it can't be defended better than it has been defended, I think that's a pretty good reason to get rid of it.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Trump's tariffs?
And there were a number of pro-Trump people who joked, we joked, about Biden and his mental incapacity. Do you remember that? And everybody said, oh, you're joking. And people like me would say, no, I mean, I might be saying it in a funny way, but I'm not joking. He quite obviously has some mental decline, and it quite obviously is going to get worse in the next few years if he gets elected.
Yeah, we think it's funny on some level. It's funny that they would even run him for office. But We weren't joking, joking. You know, joking in quotes. It was more like that's an actual observation that everybody could see. And the funny part is that people weren't admitting they could see it. Now, that's funny. And to me, this feels like 2019 all over again. Oh, yeah. Kamala Harris.
That guy joked. That guy joked about her drinking before she goes in public. Yeah, well, it was a joke, in quotes. But do you think he didn't mean it? Do you think that the people who really know what's going on, the most insider people, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, you think they don't know that Kamala Harris has a substance problem? Do you think they really don't know?
Is it just us jokers? Well, the jokers, keep joking about it. It is a joke, but it's only funny because it's obviously true. If it were not obviously true, do you think I would have brought it up more than once? I mean, maybe I would have floated it more than, you know, I might have floated it once to see if it was funny, but I wouldn't be hammering on it.
like a million times like I am, unless I literally thought the joke is that so many people are pretending they can't see it. Now that's funny because it's just 2019 all over again. You think to yourself, well, the news will learn from their mistakes. And if so many people could clearly see that Biden was mentally declining at a fast rate in 2019, if so many of us could see it,
Well, obviously we'll make an adjustment. So the next time something like that happens, we won't be caught off guard and we'll say, oh yeah, we can see it early too. But we're right back in the same situation, pretending that they can't see it. Oh, it's just a joke. J.D. Vance, you just tell them a joke. And then how many outlets on the left carried that story? Okay. I didn't see it anywhere.
I saw it in the New York Post, which leans right. Did the entire news enterprise that is mostly left-leaning, did all of them ignore that the Vice President of the United States joked that his predecessor was drunk during meetings? Did they think that wasn't newsworthy? No, it's obvious that they can see it. They just can't say it.
They would rather back somebody who couldn't possibly win as long as it makes other people unhappy, I guess. They seem to be more about destruction and making people unhappy. It doesn't seem to have any kind of overall strategy to it. Anyway, let's talk about tariffs.
You know, I keep hearing that the stock market is in turmoil because all the smart people can't forecast what's going to happen with tariffs, and it creates great uncertainty. To which I say, really? I think it only creates great uncertainty to people who are really, really bad at risk management. Let me explain the risk of tariffs.
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Chapter 5: How is the U.S. managing its water deal with Mexico?
So if you had a mining project that you wanted to do in the US to get some rare minerals here, or even somewhere else, I suppose, then you're going to get a much faster review, which could be could be the number one thing that makes something uneconomical, that it might take you years to get it approved.
So if it goes from years to get it approved to, I think we can get this done in a couple of weeks, that should vastly improve our odds of creating our own rare earth minerals. Also, Trump says that there will be a mineral deal with Ukraine, despite what the news is reporting.
Because I thought the news was saying the mineral deal was dead, but Trump is reporting it as very much alive and might be signed soon. So I don't know which one of those is true. But it does suggest that Trump's looking everywhere and anywhere for rare earth minerals, which I like. You might know that Congo, the country of Congo, is in such a...
let's say a bad state in terms of war, that they've offered that they will share their rare earth mineral wealth with the United States if we could help them militarily essentially survive. And apparently that's on the table. I don't think a deal has been made But Congo is one of the places that the U.S. is looking at as a source. So I don't know what that would look like.
And then part of the reason Trump liked Greenland is because of the mineral, rare earth minerals. So we're also looking at federal lands for mining, the rare earth minerals. We're looking at loans for federal loans for companies to evolve. And let me summarize that. We have long said...
One of our biggest vulnerabilities to China and one of our biggest limiting factors to all kinds of technological progress is our shortage of, or let's say the risk to our supply chain of rare earth minerals. This looks like exactly the right response, doesn't it? So again, I'm just going to give you all the good news.
If I were to design the perfect response to we don't have enough rare earth minerals in our pipeline that are secure, it would look exactly like this. It would be the War Powers Act. It would be federal lands. It would be we're going to get it anywhere. We're going to increase the rate of approvals. We're going to give loans. This is everything. This is right on point. Excellent.
In other good news, Trump is backing every form of efficient energy. So he's not big on windmills because they haven't really proven themselves. And he's not anti-solar, but, you know, solar is going to do its thing. But he is pro-nuclear. He's pro-drilling like crazy. He's pro-getting rid of regulations. He's pro-I think there was something about drilling in the Antarctic. And he's even pro-coal.
Now, if I were going to tell you that you had a president who was just super pro-energy, and he was going to do everything he could to make energy just bigger in the United States, what would you think is the prospects of the United States for thriving in the future? And the answer is, really, really good.
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Chapter 6: What is the status of rare earth minerals in the U.S.?
It's like, well, do you really need this? If you got that, can you make a robot army? I mean, there's a lot of questions that need to be answered to handle the budget and the budget cuts. Well, as you know, there's this big Tesla takedown effort. And I guess they're getting really organized and something's going to happen at the end of the month.
And they keep planning all these events that turn into domestic terrorism because there's always somebody bad at these events. And they're going after Tesla assets and Tesla dealerships and charging stations. And it's all about Elon Musk. And now actor John Cusack is involved with this. And once again, we get back to this theater kids.
John Cusack, I don't believe he's appeared in any top grade movies lately. This is the only acting job he can get, which is pretending to be a leader of this anti-Tesla thing. And he's complaining that the United States is fascist and becoming more fascist every day. Is that because there's somebody who's making cars as somebody wants? Is that the fascist thing?
Or is it possibly the people organizing... the violence against them. Which one sounds a little more fascist to you? Tough question. Anyway, if it's the only acting job you can get and you look crazy and you look like you might be on some kind of mental health drugs, I guess it's the best you can do. So the Daily Wire is reporting on that. So, poor guy. Anyway,
So here's my opinion about the Tesla protests. Something like 30% to 40% of all Tesla owners are Democrats. If you own a Tesla, do you feel uncomfortable driving it in public? Because all you have to do is stop at some red light, and if there's some bad, radical, crazy leftist, you might get keyed.
So if 30% to 40% of Tesla owners, who probably are quite happy with their automobiles because Tesla has a lot of happy owners, how are they going to feel finding out that their own party made it too dangerous to just drive down the street in the car they already own? That is an unrecoverable error. I don't think the anti-Tesla people have thought this through.
It's not like all those people can immediately swap out their cars. That's a pretty big expense. So a few will, right? A few politicians will make a big show of it or whatever. But most people are going to keep the car they have no matter what's happening because changing out your car is sort of a big deal.
So if 30 to 40% of the Tesla car owners are finding that their own party made it too dangerous to drive to the grocery store to buy a loaf of bread, how are they going to forgive their own party? I wouldn't. I would never forgive that. Because it's one thing to say, blah, blah, some policy is happening that might not affect me. You know, blah, blah, executive order that might not affect me.
blah, blah, the Congress is talking about something that will never affect me. That's really different from I can't drive my car without fear because the Democrats did that to me. That's non-recoverable. It really is. And the fact that the leading Democrats are silent on telling people to cool it against an American company. So forget about even the violent part.
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Chapter 7: What are the energy policies under Trump?
And they said they would dedicate the equivalent of $40 million in pro bono legal services to support the Trump administration's initiatives, according to The Hill. Now, That sounds pretty extreme. How in the world? I mean, did they offer that? Or did the Trump administration ask for it? Because it feels different if they offered it versus if they asked for it.
If they offered it, well, it just makes sense to say yes. But I hope they didn't ask for it. Because that would look a little extortion-y if they asked for it. But if the law firm said, all right, we're just going to have to throw everything at this deal and we'll just offer this. And it might not be any more than they do for the other side of the political aisle. It's a pretty big firm.
But anyway, that's an interesting situation. It also tells me that the law firm is very good at what they do. Because if you had told me they could negotiate a way out of this, I would have said, ha, ha, ha, there's no way they're going to negotiate their way out of this. And then they did. So I guess I'm a little impressed.
And probably they weren't crazy about the diversity, equity, and inclusion thing. They probably just did it because everybody was doing it. So they might have given away nothing on that. It might have been something they didn't want to deal with in the future anyway. Well, let's talk about LA. LA reportedly has a billion dollar deficit, just the city of LA.
Now, if you heard that, how bad would you think that was? What if I taught you about numbers without percentages or percentages without numbers? So there's a number without a percentage. So if I didn't tell you what is the total budget of LA, how would you know if that's a big deal or a small deal?
So I had to do my own research to find out what the budget of LA is, to find out if a billion dollars even matters. It's around 8%. It's about 8% of the budget. So if you tell me that they have to cut the budget by 8%, the rest of the budget by 8%, that seems painful but doable. If you tell me it's just a billion dollars, then I go, I don't know, is it a $2 billion budget?
Because it wouldn't be possible to cut 50%. But 8%? I feel like an 8% cut is something that a big budgeted anything should do once in a while. If you're a big company, a big state, a big country, a big organization... shouldn't you every now and then look to cut eight to 10% of your expenses? That's the most normal thing in the world.
So it's doable, but maybe not with the competence of the people who work in LA. By the way, State Farm has a lot to answer for. I'm hearing more stories of people who thought they had insurance for the Pacific Palisades, and State Farm was part of that, and are learning that the quality of their insurance was not what they hoped it would be.
So I think the local news is going to be on that story, and I don't know what State Farm does about that. I mean, it could be that they just don't have any money, so even if they wanted to treat people better, they can't. We'll find out. We'll find out.
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Chapter 8: How do Democrats and Republicans differ on authenticity?
Well, here's some good news, bad news. You want to hear the good news, bad news? The good news is Germany is going to increase its military spending by a trillion dollars. The bad news is Germany is going to increase its military spending by a trillion dollars. Have any of you seen the Norm Macdonald, the late Norm Macdonald's act when he talked about Germany? I don't remember the exact wording.
But if you can think of it in Norm Macdonald's voice, it's like, I don't know if any of you study history, but in Germany, and then everybody starts laughing because, yeah, Germany does have a history. So when was the last time it was good for Germany to massively increase its military capabilities? Hmm. Hmm. I'm not worried at all. Anyway, so that's happening.
But that might be part of what gets the United States out of Europe's business because it didn't really make a lot of sense that we were all up in their military business in Europe in the first place. Well, let's talk about some other countries. As you know, Israel is going hard at Gaza and the...
Hamas militants who were still there because the hostage deals seemed to fall apart and it looked like Hamas was just going to stretch it out. And they were hoping for some kind of a ceasefire, maybe involving the hostages or not. And then they thought they could reconstitute and take back control. And indeed, during this latest ceasefire,
Hamas tried to reconstitute its leadership of the area and reconstitute like a government and a military and stuff. And I guess Israel said, we're not going to have any of that. So now they're just going hard at them. And here's my question.
It seems to me that anytime one of the grownups from another country, be it Saudi Arabia or some other country that's allied with the US or maybe a European country, anything in the European Union, don't they always say, but what we really need is a two-state solution? And here's my question. How do they not know that's not an option?
If you just look at a map of all the Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and then you look at Gaza, where exactly would this second country be? That option has been completely taken off the table. And it makes me wonder, the people who say it are generally smart, which makes me think that they know it's not real, but they know that's the thing you have to say in public.
Because if you don't say I want a two-state solution, then you become a target for anybody who thinks that being too pro-Israel is a bad thing. We live in a world where there's a lot of people who think that. So do you believe that that's just acting? My current opinion is that's acting.
that 100% of the people who actually know how the world works and are paying attention, not casual people, I think if you just stopped somebody on the street and said, do you prefer the two-state solution, you'd find lots of citizens who are not deeply informed about what's going on. I think the citizens would quite honestly say, yes, two-state solution, good idea. But not the experts.
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