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Chapter 1: What should I expect in today's podcast?
I think we should get ready for the best Saturday podcast you're ever going to see. Because all the lazy people are sleeping in. But boy, we're not lazy. Or we're in different time zones. That works too. All right, let's get our notes and our comments. Good morning, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.
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The dopamine edit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now. Go. Oh, that's just what I wanted. Just what I wanted. All right, get that fucking comment out of there. There we go. Well, after the show, there will be a special spaces for those of you who want a little extra.
That will be hosted by Owen Gregorian on X. So if you're on X, just look for Owen Gregorian's X account, and you'll see the link for the spaces that will start after I'm done here. Well, let's see. According to the Daily Mail, there are secret CIA files that claim to expose the secret locations of three alien bases. And two of them are on Earth.
Chapter 2: Are alien bases on Earth real?
And apparently they discovered them using remote viewing. Now, I guess the remote viewing was all they needed. So they didn't go to those places and look around, at least the ones on Earth, and see if there were actually any alien bases. But I'm here to tell you that remote viewing, which is where you have this psychic person go, oh, I can see miles from here. There's a submarine base or whatever.
It's not real. Now, you might say to yourself, but Scott, There's a peer-reviewed study that shows that it is. To which I say, peer-reviewed studies are not worth anything. You need a randomized controlled study. Do you know how many remote viewers have passed a randomized controlled study?
none none zero it's never happened now if the only test that's good enough for science is a randomized controlled study and if remote viewing were real and people could do it it would be the greatest asset the united states ever had i mean it would it would allow us to win wars and find aliens and oh my god would that be valuable
but nobody's ever passed a randomized controlled study for remote viewing. It's always anecdotal. The one I always laugh about, there's a famous case of the guy who was the best remote viewer. And he was told to look at some location in Russia, or Soviet Union, I guess. It was a while ago. And he accurately drew a picture of a submarine base.
So he showed the submarine and some support structures on the port. And I said to myself, all right, If somebody asked you to look at a remote place in Russia, and it was somebody who would be interested in a military kind of information, don't you think that would be enough to tip you off that you're looking for some kind of military thing?
And if that location happened to be on the water, as in it was sort of an easy place for any kind of maritime stuff, don't you think you would say to yourself, hmm, sounds like some kind of naval base. But if they asked the remote viewer, that means that they can't see what they need to see with a satellite.
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Chapter 3: Is remote viewing a legitimate practice?
So you'd say to yourself, hmm, it's near the water, it's Russia, it's probably military, but you can't see everything you need to see from a satellite. What would that leave? A submarine. So every time you see one of these or hear about one of these stories where a remote viewer got an amazing hit, like how could they possibly have guessed that? It's the usual way. There are just some hints.
And then every once in a while, somebody's just going to get lucky. They're just going to literally guess, and it'll be pretty close. So that's what remote viewing is. Remote viewing is very much not real. If you'd like to check that for yourself, do what I did, which is ask Grok. Has there ever been a randomized controlled study that showed that remote viewing is real?
And it will tell you, nope, it is definitely not real. And if I were to put a level of confidence on this opinion, because I tend to say everything with the same level of apparent confidence, even if I don't have it, 100%. This is one of my opinions where I'd say 100%. Well, but would you bet every dollar you have? Yeah. Yeah, totally. I would buy every dollar I've ever made.
I'm 100% sure remote viewing is not real. Well, there's, according to Fox News, a big surge in gun purchases and also gun training. So that's the good news. People are pretty serious about getting safety training. And apparently now more than 40% of U.S. households have a gun. I wonder at what point burglary doesn't make sense anymore. If 40% of U.S.
households have a gun, that's pretty dicey if you're a burglar, right? And you're trying to go in there at night and somebody might be there, but you think they're probably not. I guess one of the tricks that the burglars use is they put a trail cam, a wireless trail cam, in your bushes and they aim it at your house and somehow they can tell that you're not home. But they don't know for sure.
So 40% is quite a disincentive to go into somebody's house. According to interesting engineering, we now have our first 18-wheel driverless truck that can do long-haul deliveries in the U.S. It's called the Aurora driver system.
So we've actually got a truck, and Aurora is a Pittsburgh-based autonomous vehicle tech startup, and they're already pressing it into service for deliveries between Dallas and Houston. So this is the first time that you could go out there and you could potentially see a big wheel, or what do they call it, a big rig, long-distance truck with no driver.
I'm pretty sure I saw a story that said Tesla is pretty far along in building their own. So I would hate to be a startup company that was going to compete against a Tesla self-driving long-haul truck because I feel like Tesla could make them cheaper in the long run and their self-driving system will be superior. So that's going to be a tough one to compete with.
According to Eric Dolan who's writing for a side post a new study published in political psychology says that At least in the United States political identity is the strongest driver of how people view other people So we've actually transcended race and religion and gender and sexual preference and everything else but if you're the same political view and you're okay.
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Chapter 4: How does political identity influence perceptions?
in a way that you haven't seen done. You've seen parts of it, but you haven't seen it done comprehensively. Number one, you are all aware that Trump has said many times, he said it out loud, I think he's written it in his books, that he likes to be unpredictable, right? So we're all aware that he's intentionally unpredictable. So what the Democrats did, which was kind of clever,
is they reframed unpredictable to chaos. And then it sounds bad. And chaos is one of those words that just scares people who aren't paying attention, especially the elderly. If you're elderly and you're depending on your social security, and the Democrats tell you that Trump's full of chaos and he might cut all your benefits. Well, you might believe it.
So, you know, they're using that Nazi persuasion technique of the big lie followed by infinite repetition. And it kind of works. But here's what you need to know. The chaos is just his normal technique of being unpredictable. Now you might say to me, but Scott, clearly the tariff rollout was kind of just a hot mess.
It looked like they didn't have it well planned, and then as soon as it came out, they're like, oh, but we'll change this, and oh, we didn't mean it, we'll drop the tariff on that one, and oh, well, we'll make this tweak, and Did I say 100%? I meant 145%. And then it looked to us like all kinds of poor planning. But here's a frame that you need to understand because I know Trump does.
Have you ever heard the saying in war that a war plan only lasts until the first shots are fired? Because once the first shots are fired, you have to figure it out like you had done no planning whatsoever. Because it depends where the shots came from and all that. Mike Tyson has a version of that for boxing.
And he says that your game plan for your boxing match only lasts until the first time you get punched in the face. So my question is this. How much was the right amount of planning and implementation for the tariffs?
And the answer is, if you believe that that should have been really, really well planned, then you don't understand what Mike Tyson was saying and you don't understand what every general will tell you. Your plan is only good until the first shot is fired or the first time you get punched in the face.
And he knew, because anybody smart would know, that when he introduced tariffs on all these countries, and it was sort of all over the place, that there would be lots of shots fired and lots of punches in the face, and then you figure it out from there. But in the meantime, you're getting the benefit of being unpredictable. Now, you might say, but wait a minute. Why is unpredictable good?
Unpredictable is bad, especially for the economy, right? Unpredictable is the worst thing you could have for an economy. Well, temporarily, we saw that our economy pulled back a little bit, right? Stock market dropped. The news coverage turned negative. But that's all part of the plan. That's the part where you're getting punched in the face.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of gene-edited pigs?
So when he says how much he loves tariffs and it's going to be replacing income taxes and the money is going to be rolling in, that's the show. That's not necessarily something you're supposed to believe is specifically true. That's the show. And if the show gets every other country to feel uncomfortable because there's too much uncertainty, that's exactly what he needs.
If you're going to negotiate productively, you don't want to have your ambassador call their ambassador and set up a meeting. Because the other country, if they have an advantageous trading situation, which they do, they're just going to shine you on. They're just going to tap you on. As Trump likes to say, they're going to go tap, tap, tap.
And, oh, yeah, well, let's schedule that meeting next year. Oh, too bad, our ambassador got replaced. Why don't we wait another six months, and then we'll totally have that trade meeting. In the real world, the countries that had better trade deals than we do, and therefore were already at an advantage, they would just delay. And then they wouldn't seriously... negotiate.
What you needed was somebody who looks crazy and committed and unpredictable. If you throw that at somebody, hey, you know your economy, it might completely collapse. I'm not saying it will, but you know, some things are in motion and People who don't deal with us, they might give some secondary tariffs. You never know. Maybe they're big ones. Maybe they're 145%.
There's just no way to know how bad things could get if you don't negotiate with us right away. So the first thing you need to know is that chaos is really just the reframe of unpredictable. Unpredictable is good if you know how to use it. Unpredictable comes with a show. Trump puts on a show which he knows is a show.
So when he says things that sound to you crazy, it's not like he doesn't know it. He knows it's making you crazy, and he knows it creates a sense of urgency in all the people who get dragged into the show, which so far is every country we do business with. So what would you do if you were an Asian country that didn't want any uncertainty?
you would get on the first plane you could, you'd come over here and you'd give up something to get your certainty back. And that's what's happening. So uncertainty causes anxiety in the person you were dealing with. They need to get rid of the anxiety. And so they're going to give you something to get back to certainty.
That's how negotiations work if you have a showman doing it who really understands the field. If you are a Democrat and you're just watching it, you say stupid shit like, oh, why don't you use a scalpel instead of a chainsaw? That's what somebody with no real experience or understanding of the show or negotiating or anything says. Because they imagine that
the normal boring processes would get you a good outcome. They won't. They never could. They don't have that power. But he's created a situation where he definitely has the power to get people to want to get rid of their anxiety. And you saw that the stock market, as soon as it saw something that looked like a little bit of certainty, went right up. And there's probably more to come on that. So,
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Chapter 6: How is Trump's showmanship perceived?
What kind of idea is that? That if it takes 10 years to do it, this thing which is completely necessary, that you shouldn't do it? No, if it takes 10 years, you should start now and you should try to get it down to five, which is probably possible. So he's got that going for him. And the other thing that the Democrats get wrong is they say that he's ruined our reputation in the world.
Do you think that's true? Do you think if Trump starts rolling up the trade negotiations and he gets a win after win after win, and he'll probably start with our friendliest trade partners so that he knows he gets some easy wins, you know, it won't be China first. Do you think that the other countries will say, oh, he's crazy?
Or will they say, all right, well, okay, it started out kind of sketchy, but he is getting some deals. and they are good for the United States. The thing you need to know about international relations is they're not personal, they're all transactional. The very minute that another country needs the United States for anything, they're gonna be friendly.
The minute they don't need us for anything ever, including national defense or trade, well, they're gonna be jerks. And it has nothing to do with Trump making people mad and insulting people. That stuff is completely just transient. It just gets them going. It makes them pay attention to the United States.
It makes them think that whatever we need them to do is the most important thing they need to do to make their uncertainty go away. But by far... All that matters is we end up in a good place. So if we end up in a place where we're trading with other countries and we've got maybe some kind of defense agreement with them, they're going to be perfectly happy.
Maybe they need to wait for the next president, but that's not too far away. The United States is not going to lose all of its reputation just because it did a good job getting better trade deals. That's not going to happen. Let's talk about Doge. I've been a critic of Doge in the sense that I don't believe some of their anecdotal stories of successes.
And I was hoping for a trillion dollars in savings, but it looks like they're not going to get close to that. But they are doing something. That is so wonderfully big and important that it might be bigger than even the savings, which is they're putting in fraud catching systems.
And by that, I mean requiring, let's say, a code and some kind of a receipt before money is dispersed so that people just can't easily get away with fraud. That might be the most important thing they do. Because if they upgrade the systems, and systems here is both computer as well as how people act, and they put in fraud-catching systems, that might be your trillion dollars.
I mean, I don't know how big it could be, but when you look at how much is clearly being stolen from taxpayers, that could be the biggest legacy. That there'll always be a doge. I said this before that the big benefit is that we know what a doge is and we realize we didn't have one, meaning that we didn't have anybody looking to see if we were being efficient and legal or if there were fraud.
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Chapter 7: What does the Texas school voucher system entail?
It's not possible. We can never have real history if our news is fake because the history comes out of the news, right? Well, there's now even more internal Democrat on Democrat hate. So there's a ex-Nancy Pelosi advisor who also worked as a comms person for Kamala Harris and worked for Obama at one point.
And so somebody who's really, you know, really, what would you say, really connected in the Democrat world, Ashley Etienne. And she was on a podcast for Politico's playbook, Deep Dive. And she went after Hakeem Jeffries for his lack of leadership skills. And I thought, well, why did that take them so long? Every time I see Hakeem Jeffries talking, I think to myself, really?
That's sort of the best talker they got? Of all the people in the world that they could have picked to be their main, sort of a main voice, they picked him? Because he doesn't seem very good at what he does. Like his... The things he said are just sort of obvious, just talking points. All he does is repeat talking points.
And I think that's the same thing that Ashley Etienne is saying, that he's just not really adding much. And I wonder if that's enough for them to actually make a change. And my guess is, nope, I don't think it's enough to make a change. So they've got the worst leadership, Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Pelosi is now 1,000 years old. And I don't think they have the ability to change them.
In some cases, because there's a DEI thing. In other cases, because somebody who's been there so long that they have too much power and control.
they're in real trouble here's the least surprising update a federal judge has ruled yeah can we go one day without me having to tell you a story that starts with a federal judge has ruled and you know that whatever comes after that you're not gonna like a federal judge has ruled and
that Trump's executive order going after Perkins Coie, the law firm that was doing some bad behavior according to the Trump administration, that going after them and taking away their, I guess, their security clearance is unconstitutional. and permanently blocked. Now, wouldn't you expect that a law firm as capable and powerful as Perkins Coie could find at least one judge to, what just happened?
Hold on, my light just went off. That was weird. Don't you think that a high-powered legal firm that would be connected to everybody could shop for a judge and find at least one judge who would say, no, that order against us is all illegal? Well, they did. It's the least surprising thing you'll ever see in the news. Do you think they're done? No. Perkins Coie is very powerful.
So maybe on day one, they took a hit when Trump surprised them by trying to take away their access and stuff. But you knew that they were going to, you know, gather up and come up with a plan and it wouldn't be a bad plan because they didn't get to be Perkins Coie unless they were really good at stuff. especially in the legal domain. So of course they were going to come back strong.
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Chapter 8: How does unpredictability play a role in negotiations?
We're not going to take the press release as true. We're going to need to see this. How in the world do you make your drones so cheaply? It just doesn't seem like that's economically possible. But maybe, you know, maybe they fully automated it and it's 3D printers and a couple of robot arms and you're off to the races. Could be. Or it could be vapor. But here's what I think. I think the U.S.
has decided that Ukraine is going to be our drone testing environment. Now, Ukraine itself is maybe the, arguably, could be the foremost producers of war drones because they sort of had to develop that. Now, a lot of theirs are, you know, made in garages but but they've also developed a a drone industry so ukraine can make a lot of drones but of course if our drones are better and more deadly
they're probably going to end up in Ukraine. And then we're going to see how well they work against Russian drones and Russian anti-drones. So I feel like there's some confidence that Russia can be held at bay with massive drone technology that's really inevitable. So this could be part of the reason that we can step away. is that we don't think the front line is going to change that much.
And if it did change that much, the number of drones would go up by 100 and it would change back. So I think it's the drone testing round from now on and that the U.S. will probably be greatly advantaged By testing their drones in actual combat. Because if you don't test them in actual combat, you never really know if you've got a winner drone. You've got to put it into the actual fight.
And this is the ideal actual fight because it's Russia on one side. So Ukraine will be a drone testing environment, I think. Well, Trump has threatened to put tariffs on, well, actually, Lindsey Graham, his co-sponsoring bill that would put tariffs on countries that buy oil and gas and other minerals from Russia.
And so what's missing in the story is what countries are buying oil and gas from Russia? So I went to Grok and I asked that question. And the answer is China, most of it, or like half of all their sales are to China. Boy, are they beholden to China. But also a lot of their sales of oil and gas and related stuff is to India. India is the second biggest buyer of Russian energy. And then Turkey.
So, you know, already we have a problem here. Turkey spotted NATO. And then the European Union, 17 billion. of LNG, Brazil, Saudi, even Saudi Arabia buys some kind of specialty kind of energy from Russia that I guess they don't do in Saudi Arabia. and maybe the UAE and South Korea and Japan and Taiwan.
And I'm thinking to myself, when you first read Lindsey Graham saying that they're going to put some kind of tariffs on countries that buy from Russia, if you're not thinking about which countries those are, it might sound like a good idea. But we're not going to put additional tariffs on China. Probably not. And India is an ally. And you could just go down the line.
How in the world are we going to tariff the EU for buying some Russian energy? I don't know. That doesn't seem real. Well, after the show, I told you that Owen Gregorian is going to be hosting a Spaces on X. So this is the end of my prepared remarks. I'm going to talk to the locals people, but only briefly. So I'll release them to go to the Spaces. Hope you enjoyed the show.
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