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Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2805 CWSA 04/10/25

Thu, 10 Apr 2025

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Chapter 1: What are the implications of sending robots to Mars?

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But YouTube is? We'll go with that. You ready for that? All right. First story, I already said there's going to be Optimus robots on Mars. I already feel sorry for them. Because don't you think the robots are going to be stranded on Mars? And they don't have personalities and stuff.

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But wouldn't you feel super bad if you sent a robot that could walk and talk and act like it's a sentient being, and then you just leave it on Mars until the Mars conditions destroy it?

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I don't know.

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I literally feel bad for the robots. So that's happening. So there's a, according to the Postmillennial, the support for nuclear power in the United States is at an all-time high. 61% of adults are pro-nuclear power. We'll get to all the tariff stuff and the stock market and stuff. Now, in 2016, most of you know, if you're my regulars,

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You know that I started trying to persuade the country that nuclear power was the only thing that was going to save them. And I wasn't the only one. Of course, you know, Mark Schneider and Michael Schellenberger and Zion Lights and some other really smart people. But I have the weirdest experience ever. Which is sometimes when I try to change things, they do change.

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And I never know if I made a difference or if I just got lucky or I'm really good at jumping in front of a parade that's already going to happen. Now, this is one of them.

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so but the good news is i was on the right side the right side of history in other news trump signed an executive order to get rid of the what he calls the dumb obama biden showerhead regulations so now you got toilets that'll flush and showers that'll wash your hair and light bulbs that'll make you happy my timing could not be worse literally yesterday

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Josue walked by and said, hey, the plumbing for your bathroom, because he's been working on the bathroom for a while, just came in. So I got all new fixtures for my bathroom that I have to throw away. They're brand new. They're literally not even installed. I might just shake at them right away because I'm not going to put on any low flow stuff if the executive order says I can have high flow.

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And I don't think there's any way to rig them now. I think they just, you know, weld in the low flow stuff. So I don't know if you know how expensive it is to get new shower parts, you know, the hardware that goes in the shower. But I think I have to throw them all away because I can't possibly use them. I would never use the low flow stuff.

Chapter 2: Why is support for nuclear power increasing?

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And so if he negs them with his little insults and jabs and stuff, it has this unexpected impact, which is what negging is, that once the, let's say the smoke settles, they just try a little harder to be your friend because they don't want to get insulted again. So there might be some of that going on.

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anyway um part of the the magic that happened was uh um china got isolated so by china saying you know you can't tariff us more than we can tariff you you know you'll be sorry it kind of made 75 countries look reasonable And like, oh, hey, we've got 75 friends who all want to do the right thing. Yay, our 75 countries doing great.

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And then China looks extra evil because he's created this contrast between people who are acting responsibly and people who are just trying to pick a fight, it looks like. So that's good. Now, how much of that was planned in advance? I don't know. So my take on Trump is this. If he creates confusion, he knows that he can thrive in that atmosphere.

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He knows that people will want to do whatever it takes to reduce their own confusion and uncertainty. And that gives them a huge advantage. So he's created essentially assets out of nothing. He created this gigantic uncertainty and fear that just wasn't there before. And then suddenly 75 countries want to do a deal with you. That's pretty good persuasion. That's pretty good. Anyway...

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So I think there are basically two ways for Trump to win with China. And it feels like there's no way to lose, which is not to say that it wouldn't be expensive and have some downside. But the two ways to win would be, number one, you make tariff deals with China that are all fair. Anybody think that's going to happen? Do you think China is going to deal with us? They said they would.

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I think today they said, oh, we'll talk to you about tariffs. I don't think so. Because they also steal our IP, and why would we put up with that? They also make it really hard to do business over there. Why would we put up with that? They are massively spying on our businesses over there. Why would we put up with that? So I don't think we're necessarily going to make a trade deal.

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I think it's more likely that we'll create this big trading block, the 75 countries plus the U.S. plus whoever else joins, and that that trading block would be an alternative to China. Now, at the moment, China still has a vice grip on some things that you can't get other places. But that's not permanent.

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There's nothing about the rare earth minerals that says they can't be produced by Canada or Australia or somebody who would be perfectly willing to sell them to us. So I've got a feeling that the long-term plan, which is probably necessary for survival, is to make sure that China is not in control of our future.

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And that might require some couple years of bad news, you know, maybe less growth and that sort of thing. But we'll see. So I think the long term, Trump's got the advantage. He's also threatened end of pharmaceutical tariff exemptions, according to the BBC. And the reason you would want to put tariffs on pharmaceuticals is that it would help get them out of China.

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