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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization?
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 your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, 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.
Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Enjoy. Now, for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, it's called... That's right. The simultaneous sip. And it happens now. So good. Well... I guess it's going to be up to me to explain tariffs and everything else, because it's all terribly complicated.
But first, let's see if there's any science that didn't need to be done. Oh, here we go. According to Petapixel, which sounds like a weird name, Matt Grokut... How could that be a real name? Grokut... Poor guy, Matt Grokut. Anyway, there's a study, and the study finds that if you smile in your profile picture, more people will want to do business with you and you'll make more money.
Chapter 2: What does science say about smiling in profile pictures?
Now, that's quite a surprise, isn't it? Do you know what they could have done instead of this study? They could have just asked me, Scott, is it good if people smile in their profile picture? Yes. Yes, it is. Well, we were thinking of doing a big expensive study. Don't bother. People like it when you smile in your profile picture.
But will they be more willing to do work with you and maybe buy things from you? Yes. Yes. Smiling can do all of that for you. So next time, just talk to Scott. I can save you a lot of time. Well, the Trump administration is freezing $510 million from Brown University, according to the Daily Caller, Reagan Reese is writing.
Chapter 3: Why is Brown University's DEI program problematic?
And it's because Brown University has been accused of not doing enough about anti-Semitism. And their DEI program is a little problematic as well. But more than that, I think they need to change the name of their university to something more inclusive. I mean, the name of the college is Brown University. I mean, seriously, you're going to have to change the name.
I think something like Rainbow University. or All the Colors University, or Be They Black, Be They White, Be They Any Other Color University. But you just can't call it Brown University if DEI is your problem. Change that name. Okay, it's certainly named after a person named Brown, but that doesn't matter to the joke. Well, there's yet another day.
This was the millionth day in a row in which somebody has breathlessly posted on X that some new AI app can create people who are doing what you want them to do. So if you dance, it makes it look like a celebrity that you selected is dancing. And you can make them do all kinds of things. You can make them Marilyn Monroe. And does it matter which app it is? No.
because nobody's ever going to do anything useful with that. How many times have you seen an AI app that promises to make, oh my God, with this kind of tool, I could make my own full-length movie? Has anybody made a full-length AI movie? Nope. Is anybody close to making a full-length AI movie? Nope. Because I've tried a little bit, you know, image generation stuff just to see what's going on.
I think I use Grox and maybe chat GBTs. And so I thought to myself, okay, I'm already a visual artist, kind of. And so I'll just tell the AI to make, and then if it's not exactly what I want, how great will this be? Because I can just tell it to change it. I can say, change the color of that shirt and
put it in a tropical setting and pretty soon with very little effort, I'm going to have like a piece of art. It took me about 10 minutes of messing around to say to myself, I have no interest in doing this whatsoever. And it never got close to what I wanted. Because it turns out that the thing in my mind just couldn't be reproduced by AI. It was just always something that wasn't close.
And I think all of these image generation things where you think, We must be five minutes away from Hollywood being able to make a full-length movie with this technology. Nope. Nope. You're not even close. You would not get anywhere close. I'm going to double down on my prediction, or triple down, or quadruple down, because I keep saying it, that art...
Pretty much all art forms are only attractive to us as consumers if we know that it was made by a human. And it's not because we're anti-AI or something. It's because it's related to our mating instinct.
So when you see an artist who does something that you can't do, you say to yourself, maybe you don't say it consciously, but your instinct is to want to mate with the artist because the artist has some kind of genetic thing you don't have. If you see somebody who can play the piano like Beethoven and even write the music like Beethoven, you are automatically triggered to say, really?
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Chapter 4: How is art affected by AI technology?
And then the World Economic Forum, again, just looks like a rich person's club. So Klaus is stepping down. Trump called the situation in France where Marine Le Pen, who was the frontrunner for the presidency, got taken out by lawfare, or at least that's what it looks like from this part of the world.
And Trump called it a witch hunt and said it was the same playbook that was used against Trump to take him out. Now, do you buy that? Do you buy that it wasn't a legitimate prosecution, maybe it wouldn't have happened to anybody else, and that it was completely political and it was for the purpose of taking you around at the election? I do. I do.
Now, it could be wrong, maybe, but we live in a world where, unfortunately, that would be the most obvious and routine thing that would happen because we're seeing it in other places. You know, it seems to me Remember when the first time you learned that George Soros had figured out that the best way to control the country is to control the prosecutors and maybe some judges?
Because if you get the attorney generals and the prosecutors on your side, you can kind of control the legal system. And if you control the legal system, you are the government because you can take out a candidate. Right. if you can take out a candidate like Trump or you can take out Marine Le Pen, you're kind of the government. And remember how clever that seemed?
We thought, man, this Soros guy is so clever. He figured out the least expensive way to control a country. And then he was controlling the United States, it felt like. And then we learned that USAID has been doing exactly that to other countries. massively and for decades. So apparently one of the first things we do when we want to control another country is we look to control their courts.
We try to get a judge and prosecutors that we can control or bribe or somehow have some influence over. So it does seem that all governments that you would call part of the democratic world are
They all seem fake because I believe that if your court system has been corrupted, and that certainly is the case in the United States, seems to be the case in France, probably the case in every country that USAID was working in, I'm not sure any of the democracies are real. I think that they might all be pretend. and that the real government is whoever put in the corrupt judges.
You know, remember Joe Biden and the prosecutor, he said, well, we won't release your billion dollars to Ukraine unless you get rid of that prosecutor. That was just this, it looks like. It was just another case where we couldn't control Ukraine unless we could control their judges and prosecutors. So it looks like that's what he was doing. So once you learn that, the governments all look fake.
They all look fake. If you look at, let's say, an election in the United States, Do you think it will be determined by the candidates and the voters, or will it be determined by whatever corrupt judges decide is going to be legal today? I think the judges can change the rules. They'll decide what's in. Do you need voter ID?
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of a new tax bracket for the wealthy?
I'll have to check on that. But I think Bernie might be consistent because I think he agreed with Trump on some tariff stuff. And in 2018, Barack Obama called for reciprocal tariffs. Do you think he's doing it today? So here's my take on Republicans versus Democrats. My observation, having spent a lot of time with both, is that Republicans have core beliefs.
Now, I know that sounds funny because you think everybody has core beliefs. But I don't think so. I think Republicans have core beliefs, and they don't really change. And Democrats have performances. So one has core beliefs, and you could predict, if you found a video of a Republican talking 20 years ago, would it look that different from a Republican talking today?
I feel like it would look essentially the same. Whereas the Democrats, you can always go back and find them having the opposite opinion. The indication to me is that one group is performing and one group is acting on their actual core beliefs. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. But let me give you another example here. According to Rasmussen polling, Stephen A. Smith, you know,
you know, would you call him an entertainer or ESPN commentator, let's call him, Stephen A. Smith, that if you throw him in the mix for potential candidates to be president of the Democrats, he actually scores pretty well. So let's see, 33% of likely U.S. voters view him favorably. And in a hypothetical matchup, 31% would vote for Newsom, but 28% for Stephen A. Smith.
And he would do about the same against AOC. So he's not the leading person, but he's also not running at all. I mean, I think he's been pretty clear that even being considered a presidential candidate, is less about him. I like the way he says this, by the way. It's less about him and more about the complete lack of good candidates. He's totally right about that. But here's the thing.
Stephen A. Smith is a performer. Now, he's a commentator, but what makes him extra good at his job is that he performs. He goes big when he comments and that makes him hard to look away. I find him totally engaging and very skilled at doing what he does, which is get your attention, hold your attention.
My experience is if I come across a clip of Stephen A. Smith, it's hard to stop watching it because he's just so high energy and he makes sense most of the time. but he's a performer. So that makes sense in the Democrat world. Find a performer because it's all a performance. Well, there's a study by, well, SciPost is writing about it.
It was published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin that says that liberals show less empathy to political opponents than conservatives do. So liberals would care less if conservatives had something bad happen to them, whereas conservatives might deeply disagree with the liberals but wouldn't find pleasure in seeing something bad happen to them. Is that surprising? Nope. Nope.
Because I'll tell you my current view on Democrats, besides the fact that they're performing as opposed to operating in core beliefs, I think Democrats are motivated by jealousy and hate. And that's why they perform. Imagine if your core belief was non-existence, but your real motivation is a revenge-y, jealousy, hatred of people who are doing better than you.
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of Klaus Schwab stepping down?
According to the Amuse account on X, did you know that the person who at one point had been tasked with determining whether or not Dr. Fauci's gain-of-function research was ethical or not was, who do you think it was? Of all the people in the world, who would be in charge of determining that Fauci's gain of function research in China was ethical? Well, it turns out it was his wife.
That's the first time I knew this. So his wife, who I guess just got fired by Trump, she was the head of the NIH Office of Bioethics. So he was actually being evaluated by his wife for whether or not he was acting ethical or not. What just happened? Did my light just go out? Hold on. Well, that's weird. That's the second independent light in my studio that just went out on its own.
Well, the other lights didn't go out. I'm pretty sure I'm affecting my lights today. I do that sometimes. Well, according to ABC News, Robert F. Kennedy has cut more jobs at the Health and Human Services than he wanted to. So some people will be hired back. And those would have been called mistakes. Now, how would you report this if you were ABC News? Would you report it as that dumbass?
He should have used a scalpel instead of a hammer. And now he's made this terrible mistake, and now he's going to have to correct it. Let's hope he's smarter next time. Well, I would call that the low experience take.
here's what an experienced person would say about that situation, where big cuts were needed, big cuts were made, but then it went a little too far, so they have to back up and correct a few things. I would say that the view that he should have done it perfectly the first time is what very inexperienced people say about things. You know, I'm no expert on
But I think you should do everything perfectly every time. What? That's what the Democrats with not much experience say. You know, we've never been in business, never done anything important. That's not a thing. You can't do something of that size and scale and do it perfectly on the first try. Nobody can do that. So don't even imagine that if he tried harder or
used his scalpel, that he could have gotten it exactly right the first try and gotten it done on time. If you had infinite time, you still couldn't do it because if you have infinite time, then forces working against you will have time to organize and thwart you and get in the way.
So the best way to do this stuff is take your best cut at it, make some mistakes, and then correct them as you need to. That's a perfect job. Inexperienced people say, well, you had a choice of just doing it perfectly in the first place. Why didn't you just measure twice or thrice before you cut? I mean, there's a little thing that even says what you should do. Measure twice, cut once.
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Chapter 7: How does Laura Loomer's influence affect Trump?
Have you never heard that? I mean, if you've heard it, then I guess you would never make any mistakes. But it's a good thing that I'm cleverly telling you now with all my lack of experience how things work in the real world. Yeah, do it without mistakes. I'm going to add that to my The other thing that only inexperienced people say, which is you should have done it sooner.
Do you know what else you should have done sooner? Everything. Everything that was worthwhile. You should have done it sooner. What about Doge? Should have done it sooner. What about tariffs? Sooner. What about tax cuts? Sooner. Everything should have been done sooner. And perfectly. It should have been done sooner and perfectly. That's what all the dumb people will tell you.
Anyway, so I was looking at, uh, so PJ media, Victoria Taft is writing about this, that, uh, Congresswoman, uh, Jayapal, uh, Pramila Jayapal, and, um, some Harvard professor are behind the training of people to resist, um, Doge and Tesla. So they're actually doing resistance training to get more people onto the streets. Resistance training. Now, here's the fun part.
I happened to be watching Jayapal getting interviewed live the other day, and she said that this resistance training that they were giving was part of capacity building. Now, do you know where I'm going with this?
If those of you have listened to Mike Benz, he talks about the CIA and often working with USAID in the past, where they would do capacity building as part of the plot to overthrow other countries. Now, capacity building would be things like making sure that you had co-opted the media or maybe introduced a new form of media that was going to say the right things.
Or you had trained people to resist on the streets, which is exactly what J.F. Paul is working on. And I said to myself, what are the odds that she would use that phrase? Have you ever heard any just member of Congress talk about capacity building? Have you ever heard anybody, anybody in any context use the phrase capacity building?
The only place I've ever heard it is from Mike Benz, and he didn't make it up. He's training us to understand that that's a CIA phrase. So do you think that Jayapal accidentally admitted that she's CIA influenced? I do. I don't have proof, but that was a pretty big signal that she's had some kind of training that's either adjacent to or because of the CIA. Okay.
And that would explain so much that I didn't understand about her so much. So I can't say for sure, but if you see anybody who is training people to resist on the streets and they refer to their own work as capacity building, it probably means exactly what you think it means. And if I had never heard Mike Benz talk about it at length, I wouldn't have caught it.
By the way, this is a hypnotist thing. Hypnotists will tell you that people tell you exactly what their hidden thoughts are. They just don't know they're doing it. So I'm always looking for the hidden thoughts based on their choice of words. This one just jumped right out. So that was interesting. All right, let me give you an update on tariffs. Tariffs.
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Chapter 8: What do Republicans and Democrats believe about core values?
You know, there are a lot of things that are optional purchases. I'm not terribly worried about an optional purchase expensive sneaker. Seems like you could live without one. The other thing Trump said, which was interesting, remember I told you that China is unlikely to agree to a TikTok sale? Because I think they'd want to see Trump fail and it would be worth a few billion dollars to do it.
Trump hinted that without actually committing to it, he just said it was an example, but he was clearly hinting that China might want to negotiate a better tariff situation in return for saying yes to a sale of TikTok to a U.S. buyer or a team of buyers. So clearly Trump knows that China saying yes to any kind of a TikTok sale is going to be a hard sell.
And that if you didn't bring in a completely unrelated piece of business, which is the tariffs, you probably couldn't get it done. So I think he understands that China is probably a hard no, even if they lose billions of dollars. I think that they would let that go. I think they'd spend billions to embarrass Trump and make sure he didn't get their crown jewel social app. We'll see.
But it's interesting that Trump did set that up as a bargaining chip kind of situation. Well, I saw one theory that Trump's real play with the tariffs is the lower interest rates. And the way that would go is that the tariffs would scare the stock market and then people who took their money out of the stock market wouldn't want it to be idle. So they would put it in bonds.
And if a lot of people buy bonds, that would lower the interest rate on bonds because supply and demand. And then if interest rates come down, then the Fed might lower interest rates. And then suddenly when we go to get our debt refinanced, we would be doing a much friendlier interest rate, which could be tremendously useful to the country. I don't know that that's the plan.
It's just something that might happen. So the reason that no economist knows what's going to go on is there are way too many moving parts. So you got your interest rates and you got, well, here's other stuff. The Wall Street Journal is talking about the impact on the value of the dollar, right? So you got the interest rate issue that's hard to predict.
And on top of that, there's the value of the dollar. That's hard to predict. And there's not even an agreement about whether a strong dollar is good for the country or a weak dollar is good for the country. So economists can't even decide, do we like a strong dollar or a weak dollar? But it is likely that the dollar will weaken if the tariffs stay in place and it continues to rile the market.
So that's another thing. Then I saw, according to Spectator Index on X, the price of oil went down 4%, also probably because of the tariffs, but I'm not sure. So if oil goes down, that should trickle into all the other costs. So you've got the uncertainty of whether a strong or weak dollar is good or bad. You've got the interest rate effect that's unpredictable.
You've got the energy costs that should lower prices, but would it be enough to compensate for the rise in prices? You've got the question of who's going to absorb various tariffs. Will it always be the importing company, or in some cases, will the exporter absorb some of it? Then you've got the how long will it take to get manufacturing coming back to the United States?
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