Episode 3008 CWSA 11/04/25
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View segment →e way up to the mental health reframes from the book. I'll do at least one a day if I remember. We did a bunch of them yesterday, but let me get to the one I haven't got to yet. How about this one? The usual frame: If somebody insults you, you think to yourself, "Ah, that insult is damaging my brai…
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Well, I know you like to start the day with a reframe from my book, *Reframe Your Brain*. The most important book in the United States, possibly the world. All right, let's see. We're all the way up to the mental health reframes from the book. I'll do at least one a day if I remember. We did a bunch of them yesterday, but let me get to the one I haven't got to yet.
How about this one? The usual frame: If somebody insults you, you think to yourself, "Ah, that insult is damaging my brain. That insult hurts me. It's causing me damage." Right? We act like an insult hurts us. Well, it does actually. Anything that you perceive becomes a part of your memory, part of your brain. So yeah, somebody insults you, it might hang around and cause a problem. So the old way is that an insult is damaging to your mental health.
Here's a reframe that you might take advantage of. The reframe is that an insult is a confession from the other person. An insult is a confession that your accuser can't refute your opinion or has personal problems of some sort. Typically when somebody's criticizing you, they're not the best people and they're not in the best place in life. And once you realize, wait a minute, these are not the best people and they're not having a great life, if the thing that was the best thing they could do today was criticize me, that's not very good. I feel sorry for my accuser. Anyway, so an insult is a confession that they don't have a good argument.
Do you know what people do when they have a good argument? I say this all the time, but the more often you hear it, the better. When people have a good argument, you know what they do? They use it. They use a good argument. When people don't have an argument, what do they do? They call you a communist or they call you a fascist or something. No, an insult is just a confession. So once you see it that way, the insults don't bother you anymore.
Anyway, how about some science? There's a new study that says helping other people can slow your cognitive decline by up to 20%. University of Texas said, "Awesome." Now, how many of you knew that this refers to helping or volunteering outside the home? I don't know why they said outside the home. Seems like helping anywhere would be good. But does that make sense to you that if you become a helpful person that it would be good for your own brain?
Here's why that makes sense to me. I have to admit I didn't know that. So if you'd asked me, I'd say it feels reasonable to expect it, but I didn't know it. And the reason I would have expected it is you've heard me talk about how people are healthiest when they're pursuing whatever is closest to their biological evolutionary reality. So I believe that people stay healthier. This is just a hypothesis, but I think it's true that if the closer you are to the mating process, the single most important thing that a human can do, because mating is sort of organized our entire evolutionary path from a million years ago. So if you're any part of the mating, producing children, taking care of children process, your body probably stays healthier. I'll bet if you did a study of that, you'd find that to be true.
So it doesn't surprise me that if you're being helpful, which is really another way to protect the tribe, which is really another way to protect the mating instinct or the mating process of the tribe because you're just helping other people and maybe they're having the babies, maybe you are, but it's got to be built into your DNA, right? So something tells me that when you orient your mind toward helping the tribe, I think you stay healthier. That doesn't surprise me a bit.
Did you know that eating cheese once a week is linked to a 24% lower dementia risk? Okay. So what I'd recommend, and this is from Natural News, Cassie B is writing about it, I recommend helping other people while eating cheese. Because Jesus saves. Jesus saves. No. Jesus saves. Nothing.
All right. Well, according to a, I think this is Rasmussen or somebody else, I don't think there was a source on this, but there's a new poll that said that 71% of the US people surveyed were in support of Trump's administration destroying the narco drug boats. So it turns out it's a 70-30 issue in favor of destroying the drug boats. Now, given that it's a 70-30 issue, of course Trump is doing it. You don't have to wonder if it's 70-30. If it's 70-30, yeah, he's totally doing that because why wouldn't you? Sometimes he does it while he's eating cheese. So he's actually protecting his brain while protecting the country. Yeah, that's how it works. Even 56% of Democrats are in support of blowing up those drug boats.
All right, I'll make my confession here. I'm not claiming to be such a good person. I'm going to confess. As you know, in 2018, most of you know this, I lost my stepson to a fentanyl overdose. And I can watch narco drug boats get blown up all day long and still want to see another one. Now I know I'm in the extreme because of my personal experience, but finding out that 70% of the public sort of agrees with me that watching these blow up is more good than bad, I don't feel so bad. So thank you.
Well, it's election day for some special case situations such as New York City's mayor and what is it, New Jersey governor and somebody else I don't care about. So the Wall Street Journal says that today will be a day that you will test Trump's low economics rating and see if that helps the Democrats get elected. Why in the world does Trump have a low economic rating? Does it make sense with the data that we have? You know, all data is questionable, of course, but does it make sense with the data that we do have that he would have a low economic rating? Because it seems to me that almost everything he's tried has worked.
You know, maybe he and the Democrats are trying to hold him responsible to his hyperbole, as in he'll get rid of inflation on day one. And the Democrats are actually criticizing him because he didn't get rid of, he didn't lower prices. He didn't lower prices on day one. Really, you really expected him to lower prices on day one? Now, he did lower some prices. He got your eggs down. He got your gas down. Beef's too high. He has a plan, but I don't know if that's going to work. But really, you're going to compare him to the hyperbole, not to anything in the real world.
Do you know what hyperbole is? It's imaginary, right? Hyperbole is by definition the thing that doesn't match reality. It's some extended imaginary version of reality. What is the most consistent thing that Democrats do? I think you know the answer. They lean into the imaginary. So their entire economic everything is literally based on imaginary stuff. And they do it right in front of us and we even call it imaginary and we see it as imaginary. It still works. They're still convincing their base. So the base thinks there was some way that a human being could have lowered prices on day one of the presidency. Okay. All right. It's pretty imaginary.
And have you noticed that the Democrats have words about how they want to lower prices, such as Mamdani in New York? Assuming he wins, he wants to give away a bunch of stuff which he wants to pay for with taxes on rich people, many of whom want to leave if Mamdani gets elected. Now, do you think that the math works? Of course not. Of course the math doesn't work. Which means that his plan for lowering costs, and by the way, how much control does he have over a lot of this stuff? The mayor doesn't have a lot of control over much of that stuff. So is their economic plan imaginary? Yes, it is. Now, is Trump's plan imaginary? Well, so far whatever he wants to do with beef is unstated, but I doubt it would be imaginary. I mean, I'm sure he's looking into real things. So imaginary versus not.
Anyway, Mike is pointing out how the latest New York City poll shows how loony voters are. Crime is listed as the residents of New York City's greatest issue. It's their biggest issue. And while crime is the biggest issue, the person that they want to elect is the one who would be softest on crime. Now, can you explain that? How can it be that crime is the biggest issue, but by a big factor, they're still willing to elect the guy who's the softest on crime, their biggest issue?
Well, there is a reason. It's called follow the money. Because if they believe that they can get free stuff from Mamdani and they don't have another mechanism for getting stuff. I mean, if you were poor, you'd think, well, I'm poor and it's not going to change. Might as well get some free stuff. And then I would say, but what about crime? And then you would say, what about eating? What about eating? So eating is a little bigger than crime. So while it looks crazy that the people who say their biggest issue is crime are going to vote for exactly the opposite of a solution, if you imagine that their real problem is always affording to eat, maybe they don't say it or maybe they don't list it because maybe they just think crime is the right answer to the question. But people will follow their money. They won't even follow danger because the danger seems a little theoretical like if you stay away from this part of town it won't be much of a problem but what are you going to do about eating? So it's probably about affordability. Or they're experiencing suicidal empathy or there's a bubble where they just don't see the world the same as you.
All right. There's allegedly, New York Post says, I don't believe any of this, but nearly a million New Yorkers are ready to flee New York City if Mamdani is mayor. Really? Do you believe that 765,000 people must have been a poll? Which is, you know, you could argue that's a million. 765. That's a lot of rounding. It's a little too much rounding to go from 765,000 to a million. It's almost a million. It's close to three-quarters of a million. Let's say that would be 9% of New Yorkers. And apparently these are people who say they would definitely leave. This is a sort of poll where people are answering in the way they think they can influence reality. It's not exactly necessarily their opinion or what they're going to do. It might be the message they want to send and they want you to know if you elect this overt taxing, under-criminal-fighting guy that they'd rather live somewhere else. But would they actually move when they look at all the pain in the ass of moving and where they work and where their family is and all that? A million, 9%. That seems a little high, but maybe it's just to influence the election.
Well, today is a big day for me. Right after this show, I'm gonna go over to a medical facility at Kaiser and get the Pluvicto, which is a promising cancer drug. About one-third of the people get a really good response, as in their tumors just sort of melt away, which is remarkable. It's not a cure, but it can really make a difference in your life. About one-third get some kind of improvement, but it's not melting the tumors away. So I'd still be happy with some amount of improvement. But one-third of the people might end up worse off. So two out of three chance I'll be happier, one out of three chance I'll be less happy. We'll see. I like the odds.
On top of that, I've connected with Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, if I'm pronouncing it right. I'm always so worried I'm pronouncing his last name wrong. And you might have seen him on Dr. Drew's show. You may have seen him on Tucker's show. He's been on a few podcasts. And I didn't know too much about him until recently when I was connected with him through the Trump administration. And he has a product called Bioshield. He has 850 patents. Let me say that again. He has 850 patents and his resume is so impressive that I was going to tell you a little bit about where he's worked and what he's accomplished. It's so impressive that you can't even start. It's like the most impressive resume you've ever heard in your life. And I got to talk to some people who know some people who know him and by reputation, etc. So he has the highest credibility, best reputation you'll have ever seen in your life. But he's impossible to summarize. So he owns the LA Times, but he's not a newspaper guy. He's a doctor but he's specializing in creating drugs and he's come up with a process which so far seems to be very promising, very promising. As in every single day people send me stories of somebody who thinks they can cure cancer with I don't know pumpkin seeds or some damn thing. But this is the first time that I've looked into it and thought, whoa, this is actually credible.
So in my opinion, not as a doctor, right? Remember, this is not medical advice. So there's no medical advice that's going to follow. But in my opinion, as a patient, I am now about to embark on the two most promising ways to treat my specific situation. Some people complained and they said, "Wait a minute, why is this rich guy getting this special Trump administration treatment and would regular people get this treatment?" And the answer is I'm doing this for everyone. Now obviously it's mostly to keep myself alive but you don't think if I fix this problem, the problem being fixing the distribution of this promising drug, you don't think if I fix at least the communication with the patients and raise the awareness of this drug, you don't think that helps other people? The whole theory here is that if I can fix it for myself then it gets fixed. It's not just for me. It would be primarily for anybody who had the same problem and didn't have the good fortune to have apparently some of the best friends in the world. Some of them I didn't even know about. But boy am I appreciative. And I promise you that if I get a good result, everybody's going to know. That's part of the play. Part of the play is that first I escape from the jail, but then I go back and I free the other prisoners. In this case, the prisoners would be people who have cancer, the kind I have. And if I can, I'll burn down the prison and take the warden as a hostage. So this is always a bigger play. It's not about me specifically, but I understand the criticism. I could understand why people would see that.
Yesterday even Elon Musk weighed in, used Grok to show me that there were some cancer treatment alternatives if the ones I'm trying don't work. So yes, my medical treatment involved Trump, the administration, Elon Musk, Kaiser, and by the way, Kaiser is doing a great job at the moment. They're doing a great job of communicating and getting me in where I need to get. So A+ for Kaiser for making the adjustment. You know how I judge people, right? I've told you this is a reframe as well. The best reframe for judging people or processes is not what they did, although it seems obvious that that should be the way, right? It's how they respond to what they did. How they're responding is excellent. And that's how I will evaluate them. I'll evaluate them based on the response. So A+.
You might remember I brag about this too often that I am the only non-AI expert, I think. No that's not true. There must be lots of others. But I'm one of the public figures who's been saying since the early days of AI that, hey, I don't think this large language model thing that keeps hallucinating could possibly be useful for anything except fun little chats. Like, you'd never be able to use it for anything. Because when AI was new, you knew that I tried to use it for something. And what I tried to use it for was what I thought was literally the easiest thing it could do, which is look at a file I'd created and tell me what's in the file. Like, what could be easier than that? If you're AI, it can't do that. And if it can't look at a file and accurately tell you what's in it, and I know you think it can, and you think, "Oh, I build this special file. It's called a rag. Then it does." No, it can't. No.
But here's what the New Yorker says. There's an MIT study that found that 95% of the companies that invested in AI tools, these are not the companies producing AI, but the ones using them, were seeing zero returns. And they say it jives with the emerging idea that generative AI, quote, in its current incarnation simply isn't all it's cracked up to be. John Cassidy is writing about that in the New Yorker. Now, does that sound like me two years ago? It does, right? Was I not two years ahead of that? If you used it for five minutes, you could see that it just didn't have the right tool. Just wasn't ready. And it didn't look like it could possibly be ready, which is what I think is different in my case. A lot of people said it's not ready, but other people said if you just keep feeding it words, it'll become smarter. No, I said if you keep feeding it words, it'll become more like people. It won't get smarter, if you know what I mean.
So Axios is writing also that the layoffs might be going up and that companies are only using AI as an excuse for their public explanation of why they're laying off people. Who was the first one to tell you that the companies would lie that AI was the reason they were laying off people? Because then they could get a twofer. The twofer is, oh, you reduced expenses by laying off people. Yay. Oh, you're also a pioneer in AI and you've made it work so quickly that you could lay off people. God, you're amazing. I told you that the most likely Gilbert future was that companies would lie and say the AI is why they were laying off people. And here it is. Axios is reporting companies are lying. They're calling it the layoff boomerang. Meaning that they lay them off, but you're going to have to hire them back eventually when the AI doesn't work. So that's a pretty big deal.
And one last thing on that same point, actually two last things. ChatGPT has announced that ChatGPT will no longer give health or legal advice. What do you use AI for? Mostly health and legal advice. Those are the two categories I use it the most. Now I was aware that I would still have to check my work, but it is what I use it the most for. I mean there are all kinds of legal if you count tax and insurance and all that within the legal domain all the time.
Now let me ask you this for those of you who've been watching me. Did I or did I not tell you at the birth of this AI bubble? Did I not tell you that AI would be limited by these special interest human groups who didn't want to be replaced? Is that what's happening? Or is ChatGPT just independently thinking they're going to get in trouble if they accidentally give bad legal advice or accidentally give bad health advice? Both of which are guaranteed if you have a hallucinating AI right now. How did anybody else tell you that humans will block AI from doing what AI does? Even if it could do perfect legal advice, even if it could do perfect health advice, I told you that humans would block it because they don't want to lose the power of being the gatekeeper to what is true about your health or what is true about your legal situation. Now, that was a pretty damn good prediction, wasn't it? I mean, I feel like I can take credit for that.
And then it gets better. There's a new study according to Medium, Lewis Call is writing about this, that finds that AI models write code. Oh, okay. Well, here's the one thing that AI can do well, right? The one thing that people say, well, AI can help you write code faster. But 18 to 50% of the time it writes code with security flaws. Do you think the human is going to catch all the security flaws by looking carefully at every line of code written by the AI? Or do you think that a normal human being would say, "Oh, AI, write this part of code," slap it in their program, and then write the part that they write, and then slap in some more AI code? Which do you think sounds more reasonable? That the human would in great detail check every line of code the AI wrote just to make sure it didn't have these security flaws? No, no, no. Well, they're just going to put them in the program unless they're gaping and obvious, I guess. So let's see. It can't do coding. It can't do legal. It can't do health. And it can't help you in any productivity way by doing tasks. It's called AI people. It might be a bubble.
But I will give some comfort to those of you who are complaining in your head right now. I do understand that we're at the beginning of AI, not the end. Can you give me that? I do understand that somebody might figure out how to solve all these problems. I understand. But at the moment, it's right on my prediction. Which doesn't mean it will always be so. So I do accept the inevitability of a superior AI intellect, but we're just not close. It would be some entirely different technology. And there are people working on entirely different technologies. So it's not like it's not going to happen. It just isn't happening yet. That's my only point.
All right. Apparently there's some new news about Comey. So you know Comey is in trouble. You know, I hate all these legal stories, but as best I remember, Comey had his friend leak some stuff and then did he lie to Congress about leaking stuff and now the lie is the issue that he might be jailed for the lie? Well, apparently some more documents were discovered from Comey and that time. And he said among other things, "Well done, my friend. Who knew this would be so much fun?" Talking about an email after his special government employee, this guy named Dan Richman, had leaked to the New York Times allegedly. So this is all alleged, but apparently there's some pretty clear paper trail now that he did exactly what he's accused of. And I saw some writing on this and John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy who write for Just the News. So Just the News is the one that seems to be carrying the details of this if you want to catch up on that. John Solomon is doing a great job. You know, every time I listen to John Solomon on Fox News, I say to myself, my god, he and others totally have the goods now, and there's no way this isn't going to result in jail time.
Oh, god damn it. My. Sorry, I just had a computer problem because why? All right. Solved. Solved. So I can see your comments again. All right. All good.
Anyway, this is also a Mike Cernovich post. He said that the court exhibits filed in the Comey case are damning. Usually you don't see such evidence until trial. Remember he's also went to law school. I don't know what his status is, but he's speaking as somebody who knows what he's talking about. But since there was a pending motion to dismiss, they're made public and Mike says this is an open and shut case, although the judge will try to rig it and the jury nullification risk too. Man, that feels like what's going to happen, doesn't it? Doesn't it feel like it's a real thing and there's a real crime and we have absolute proof that the crime happened. It would be easy to prove and still there will be no justice, if you will. I think I agree with that. The odds of no justice are higher than the odds of justice. One way or the other, that's what it feels like.
I think I skipped something I was going to talk about. So have you noticed that there's what's been called some kind of internal fight among Republicans and MAGA people? So here are the names. You'll recognize this. A lot of this is over Israel, but on one side, and that's really the wrong phrase. They're not really on a side, but people are trying to make this into sides. And they would say that Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes and they'd throw in Marjorie Taylor Greene and even Charlie Kirk at this point and they would say they're anti-Israel. Maybe some of them or all of them are anti-Semitic. So that's the internal battle that's going on. And then the other side, those people would be not too happy with Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin and Ted Cruz and Laura Loomer and I'm forgetting some names.
So roughly speaking, the press I think more than anything and also maybe some podcasters are trying to make it that there's some split in the MAGA or Republican world or conservative world now because I think in reframes and I think differently. I think when I see that the Republicans are fighting each other, do you know what that means? The first thing I think is you only fight with each other when you've won everything else. The Republicans have so won against Democrats and the Democrats are no fun to fight against anymore, but everybody's always up for a fight. I mean, it's sort of a fighty kind of domain that it's such a luxury to be able to turn on your own team. It's just a luxury. It's like, hey, we took care of the enemy. Let's fight with each other now. It's like my cats fighting. You know, if my cats saw some wild animal come in the garage, they might gang up and say, "All right, it's cats against squirrel. You take him on the left, I'll take him on the right." But if you take the squirrel out of the garage, then the cats fight with each other because that's who's around.
So when I watch this, I'm having trouble getting fully engaged because the bigger picture is that you won. The bigger picture is you won. You don't get to even have this conversation unless you've taken care of the important stuff and then you get to fight about this. But I'll give you my overall opinion of who's an anti-Semite and who's just America first because it's terribly important that you know my opinion on this completely unimportant topic. And it goes like this. If I were Jewish, I would think half the people I named are anti-Semitic. That's it. That's my opinion. If I were Jewish, then I would have a different filter on life, right? Of course you'd have a different filter. You'd be a little more sensitive to, "Wait a minute, you didn't say directly, but you sure walked up to that line." And then if somebody walks up to that line more than once, then I change my view and I go, "You went up to that line a lot of times. Why are you so interested in walking up to that line? Why is it important to you that you talk about this topic like I am right now so much? Huh? A little suspicious."
So in just the way if you're a meme-loving person and Democrats say something, you automatically think they're lying, right? And vice versa. When I got cancelled, pretty much all of black America, at least the ones that lean left, thought, "My god, that's so racist." Do you know how many MAGA people thought it was racist as opposed to a common statement about protecting yourself? Almost none. So was it racist or not racist? It depended who you were. It just depended who you were. So let me say clearly, if I were Jewish, I'd be pretty worried about some of these cats. I don't need to name names. You know what I'm talking about. But if you're not Jewish, you would hear exactly the same messages if you're paying attention, if you cared, and you'd say to yourself, "Huh, that's close to being anti-Semitic, but really, it's just free speech and it's just America first." Which one of those is true? Well, if I've taught you anything, it's two movies on one screen. Truth, I don't know if we have access to that. But prediction, we do. So I would say that if you can make a prediction that holds based on your view of these people and their opinions, then you might have something. But if it doesn't predict, as in, I'll give you an example. If the next thing that Tucker Carlson does is unambiguously pro-Jewish or pro-American or pro-Israel, would you say to yourself, "Oh, okay, that looks different." Now, I don't think he's going to do that necessarily, but I'm saying that if you can't predict, you have to check your worldview. I've got more on that coming.
Well, Speaker Johnson said he's trying to reframe the government shutdown as the Democrats want to cut 50 billion from the rural hospital fund. So that basically they're ransoming the government. Here's what I think about this whole who's to blame for closing or not opening. Even CNN is going hard at the Democrats. Have you noticed that the CNN hosts are doing an absolutely completely respectable job and I have to call that out. So everybody from Jake Tapper to the other hosts, they say directly to their Democrat friends, how is this the Republicans' fault if you can just vote it to be open? Which is the ideal question. How is it their fault if you could open it anytime you want? Then they're like, "Whoa, whoa, well, we're only a leverage, but we're trying to feed the..." They don't want to feed the... Okay, but everybody would get everything if you just voted yes. Oh, yeah. The word salad.
So I don't think there's any question that the Democrats are acting like turds. That they're acting like such turds. I think it's even embarrassing to CNN. Like actually embarrassing, you know, because they feel associated. I would guess if you work for CNN, people assume you're a Democrat and then they see even CNN saying, "Okay, this is just total. All you have to do is vote and you can have everything you wanted for seven weeks and then negotiate the rest." Exactly what the Republicans are telling you.
But I noticed that when Trump was on 60 Minutes and the topic came up, did you notice that before the question was finished, he said it was the Democrats' fault. Did anybody catch that? So it was Norah O'Donnell on 60 Minutes and she starts to cue up the question. Before she was done asking the question, he goes, "This is the Democrats' fault." Now, what have I taught you about the primary tool of persuasion? The primary tool of persuasion is repetition. Whoever repeats the most wins. So he makes sure that he said it before she even finished the question. Now that's good technique because that gets in your head first. He needed to get that in the head first so that she would respond to him instead of he was responding to her. Do you see how clever that was? That was super clever that he talked over her and gave her the answer before she asked the question. If she had been able to ask the question, it would have been framed as why won't you Republicans open up the government, but because he front-ran her while she was still talking all the way to it's the Democrats' fault, he framed it before she got to it. Now, you don't sometimes you don't notice the little things that he does. They're just perfect that you would have to be so experienced in public life to know that getting there before she finished the sentence was going to give you an advantage. I mean, it's just brilliant persuasion wise. This is what I noticed in him on day one of his running in 2015. I was like, wow, he's different. He seems to understand things like other people don't understand them. This would be one.
Now, apparently the Texas Governor Abbott said that he's going to, this can't possibly be true, but he says that if any New Yorkers try to flee New York after Mamdani's win, they'll be slapped with 100% tariff. That couldn't be true, could it? How would you even do that? You're going to slap a million people a tariff on a million people who came from New York. Okay. The Daily Mail is reporting that. All right. I'm going to put that in the category of I doubt it.
Let's see what else we got going on here. There's a claim from a whistleblower. I saw this on Breaking 911, which is on X, that the BBC completely doctored some Trump quotes to make it look like he had organized the January 6 quote insurrection, as they would call it. But so I saw a video on it and so I'll wait for more credibility on this story, but what it looked like is the worst edit I've ever seen. Meaning totally illegal. You know, I'm not talking about, remember when CBS did their little edit of Kamala Harris. I believe she was vice president. So when 60 Minutes did their edit of her, I actually semi-defended her and them by saying that it's not unusual for a big media thing to edit for clarity. And it wasn't too far off from clarity, but it was enough that they settled in a court and they didn't admit any wrongdoing, but they needed to settle. So I don't mind editing for clarity, but whatever the BBC is accused of, according to at least one video I saw, was not clarity. It was literally just changing what he said to what they wanted him to say because they could piece two unrelated sentences together that were 54 minutes apart or seconds or something, but they were pretty far apart. So if this is true, the BBC is going to owe Trump a lot of money. So wait for if you're looking for whether this is credible. I'd look for the lawsuit if the lawsuit drops today. Yes, the BBC edited him.
Rasmussen poll according to Newsmax says that the majority of voters, 52%, they want anybody who used the autopen under Biden and they did it without proper authorization wants them prosecuted. So only if they used it without authorization which seems reasonable but wouldn't everybody agree with that? It's hard to imagine there's anybody who disagrees with the question, if they use the autopen inappropriately, should they be punished? Yes. Yeah. If they use it inappropriately, of course.
Anyway, there's always a new Bill Maher quote. He was in his club random talking to somebody I didn't care about. And what he said was this is just a pure compliment to Trump. It's one of the best compliments I've ever seen Trump get and it's coming from Bill Maher. Now to his credit once Bill met Trump in person. He did drop all of his criticisms about his crazy personality because that wasn't demonstrated at all in person. But he still maintained a strong preference for the other side. Still thinks that Trump tried to do an insurrection on January 6, which is Bill's personal tentpole hoax. He can't get past that hoax. But so he has complimented Trump just for being willing to talk to the other side and getting some stuff done like the border, but never this much. This is a new level of compliment and I don't know if it means anything. I don't expect Bill Maher to become a Republican too far. But look at the evolution of his thinking from these little compliments to now this one.
So he said a club random quote about Trump. He didn't play the silly game that the other presidents do like well we have to be even Steven. He's talking about the Middle East now. He says who knows who is right. The people who treasure life are the people who treasure death, Bill says rhetorically. And then he goes, he said, "No, I'm with Israel. Let's see how this works out. I'm with Western values. I think democracy is better than theocracy." And so then Bill closes with the keeper. He goes, "The Jews love him more than any president ever, and the Arabs do, too. That's quite a hat trick. You got to give it up for that one. Yeah, I got to give it up for that one." Who else could make the Jews and the Arabs in the Middle East both think he was the best president? I mean, maybe Hamas has a problem, but not Saudi Arabia. Is that one of the best compliments you've ever heard of any politician of any time? That's got to be right at the top of the best thing you could ever say about a president that he made the Jews and the Arabs in the Middle East think he was the best president. And I think he did that. That's actually real. I think he actually did that. I'd never thought of it that way.
So here's what I mean by the evolution of Bill's thinking. He's clearly now embraced that Trump is not crazy. And by this I would say he's clearly embraced that Trump brings tools to the game that other people just didn't have. They just didn't have those tools. Now, he still prefers other policies. Perfectly reasonable thing. But this is one hell of an evolution into the light because he's 100% right about this. Right? This lefty's 100% right. And if I can get him to break the tentpole hoax about somehow all those Republicans thought they could take over the country by wandering around in one building without weapons, which is what he believes. If we can make that tentpole hoax go away, it's going to look really different. His world will look really different.
Anyway, so remember I told you that if your worldview does not predict, you should look at it again, right? So Bill Maher is now squarely moved into a worldview that will predict because now that he understands that Trump just has powers that other politicians just don't have, they just can't do some things like maybe get the hostages back, maybe only him, like solve eight military conflicts in eight months or whatever it was. Maybe that's only him. I mean, close the border. Maybe he's the only one who could be enough of a bastard and take enough of the heat that he could actually close the border.
I've told you before that if you were to summarize why it was that I supported Trump from earlier days, here's my reasoning. I don't know if I've ever said this explicitly, but when I looked at him, I said, we've never seen that toolbox before. He could solve problems that a president can't solve. A normal president, you know, a modern president might. But it was just obvious to me from almost day one that he was a solver with a set of tools that was unlike anything we'd ever seen. And every now and then, you don't want a normie president. You can't have a normal president throughout all time because they won't get it done. There'll always be these little pockets of things such as the border that they act like they can't solve. Sometimes you need to bring in the big wizard to solve the things that nobody can solve. Trump is taking on all the hardest problems, like the really hard ones, like the super hard problems, and he's just checking them off. Check, check, check. Middle East peace, check, check. I mean, it's crazy.
So when I watch him solve the unsolvable, I say that's it. That's the thing. That's the reason I support him. Is it because he says insults to people? I kind of enjoy that. But no, that's not why I support him. Yeah, I don't support him because the insults. So when I say that if your worldview predicts it might be accurate. So I'm gonna give you, do you remember a prediction I made? I made a prediction that Trump will always take the strongest position on every policy, even if he knows that the strongest position could never get done. Maybe because it's too hard, too expensive, Democrats hate it too much, unconstitutional, the courts will stop it. And I told you that he'll always take the strongest position and that in the long run that's a winning strategy. No matter how many times he gets shot down from being able to do the strongest thing, it's still smart to say the strongest thing. And here's the best example.
And that 60 Minutes interview with O'Donnell, he was asked, "Do you think all these anecdotal situations with ICE allegedly doing rough tactics with individuals?" She goes, "Do you think, you know, I forget the exact question, but do you think it went too far?" Now when Norah asked that it was about individual cases which she mentioned you know this case this case this case she goes do you think it went too far ICE what do you think Trump said what would my prediction be my prediction would be if he always takes the strongest stance that he's not only going to say it didn't go too far but that it should go farther and that's what he did. But he changed the context and then CBS of course and the pundits will pretend he didn't. But he changed the context away from these individual cases which nobody could really defend because you don't know what happened really. He changed it to the question of immigration. So he was saying we haven't done enough for immigration but she was asking about these specific cases. So he found a way to make it yes, we should even do more. It was the way to do it. It was exactly right from a persuasion point of view. Again, only Trump. Don't you think that a normal politician would have said something like, "Oh, we need to look into those cases. Those specific cases sound very bad. We better look into those right away." Thank you very much for bringing that up to my attention. Nope. Trump says, "No, we shouldn't go harder." But he changes it to the general topic, not to the individuals.
What about Trump saying that he wants to resume nuclear detonation testing, which by the way, Secretary Wright says that's not what we're talking about. According to Secretary Wright, we're talking about testing the non-critical explosions. So all of the process up to but not including the actual nuclear bang. So there is some question whether Trump ever meant that they would test the bang or whether he meant we would do what other countries do which is test everything that goes up to the bang but stops there. Now he also said that China and Russia have been testing with actual detonations for years. Have they? I don't know. It would be top secret if somebody knew that. But he teased it like our intel people know that China and Russia have been continuously testing up to now. I don't know that that's true. But what would be the strongest thing, remember, we're talking about prediction. What would be the strongest thing that Trump could say in this domain? The strongest thing he could say is we're going to test nuclear detonations. Now, it doesn't have to be true because it's also part of a negotiation which he's queuing up. So he would like both Russia and China to think, oh, there's something that we need to get them to stop doing. And then he can he's invented an asset. So he's invented an asset as he always does before a big negotiation. And the asset is, hey, we're going to do this blast testing of nuclear. You surely don't want us to be doing this, so why don't we negotiate all of our nuclear dangers at the same time? So it makes sense that he would go for the strongest position right before negotiation. But do you see how well my prediction holds? If you simply said, what's the domain? What's the strongest thing a president could say and then you predicted that he would say that you'd be right most of the time. So I believe that my theory about him always taking the strongest position seems like reality because it predicts and it predicted twice yesterday. I mean it worked twice yesterday. That's a pretty good prediction.
So there was a question also on 60 Minutes and other places. Trump was asked about his pardon for the one of the founders of Binance I guess crypto site and he said weirdly that he doesn't even know who that is but maybe he was trying to say he doesn't know him personally or hasn't done business with him personally but he obviously at one point I don't think he said it yesterday but maybe or Sunday but maybe he did he thought that the reason for pardoning him was that somebody told him it was that Biden was going after him. So it's because Biden was going after him.
Oh, I gotta run in one minute. All right, we got one minute here. So yeah, there's a question about the two sons are in crypto, but I don't think anybody said anything illegal is happening. Forget about that one.
Trump is reportedly planning to send US troops and intelligence officers into Mexico to combat the drug cartels. What would you call that? That would be the strongest position. Again, predictable three times in a row.
All right. The rest is some scientific stuff about bacteria that eats battery waste. That's cool. Atlantis may have been discovered. That's cool. And Ukraine may or may not have been responsible for some Hungarian explosions. And that's all I've got for today. And I'm not going to have time to talk to locals. I got to run. Going to get some medical treatment. I'll give you an update tomorrow. Thanks for joining. Bye for now.
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The most important book in the United States, possibly the world.
All right, let's see.
Uh, we're all the way up to the mental health reframes from the book.
I'll do at least one a day if I remember.
We did we did a bunch of them yesterday, but let me get to the one I haven't got to yet.
Um, this one.
Yeah.
How about this one?
The usual frame.
If somebody insults you, you think to yourself, "Ah, that insult is damaging my brain.
That insult hurts me.
It's causing me damage." Right?
We act like we act like an insult hurts us.
Well, it does actually.
You know, any anything that you perceive becomes a part of your memory, part of your brain.
So, yeah, somebody insults you, it might hang around and cause a problem.
So the old way is that an insult is damaging to your mental health.
Here's a reframe that you might take advantage of.
The reframe is that an insult is a confession from the other person.
An insult is a confession that your accuser can't refute your opinion or has personal problems of some sort.
T typically when somebody's uh criticizing you, they're not the best people and they're not in the best place in life.
And when once you realize, wait a minute, these are not the best people and they're not having a great life.
If if the thing that was the best thing they could do today was criticize me, that's not very good.
I feel sorry for my accuser.
Anyway, so an insult is a confession that they don't have a good argument.
Do you know what people do when they have a good argument?
I I say this all the time, but the more often you hear it, the better.
When people have a good argument, you know what they do?
They use it.
They use a good argument.
When people don't have an argument, what do they do?
They call you a communist or they call you a fascist or something.
No, an insult.
An insult is just a confession.
So once you see it that way, the insults don't bother you anymore.
Anyway, how about some science?
There's a new study that says helping other people can slow your cognitive decline by up to 20%.
University of Texas said, "Awesome." Now, how many of you knew that this this refers to helping or volunteering outside the home?
I don't know why they said outside the home.
seems like helping anywhere would be good.
But does that make sense to you that if you become a helpful person that it would be good for your own brain?
Here's why that makes sense to me.
I have to admit I didn't know that.
So if you'd asked me, I'd say it feels reasonable to expect it, but I didn't know it.
And the reason I would have expected it is you've heard me talk about how people are healthiest when they're pursuing whatever is closest to their biological evolutionary reality.
So I believe that people stay healthier.
This is just a hypothesis, but I I think it's true that if the closer you are to the mating process, the single most important thing that a human can do, because mating is sort of it's organized our entire evolutionary path from, you know, a million years ago.
So, if you're if you're any part of the mating, producing children, taking care of children process, it probably your body probably stays healthier.
I'll bet if you did a study of that, you'd you'd find that to be true.
So, it doesn't surprise me that if you're being helpful, which is really another way to protect the tribe, which is really another way to protect the mating instinct or or the mating process of the tribe because you're just helping other people and maybe they're having the babies, maybe you are, but it's uh it's got to be built into your DNA, right?
So, something tells me that when you orient your mind toward helping the tribe, I think you stay healthier.
That doesn't surprise me a bit.
Did you know that eating cheese once a week is linked to a 24% lower dementia risks?
Okay.
So, what I'd recommend, and this is from uh Natural News, Cassie B is writing about it.
I recommend helping other people while eating cheese.
Because Jesus saves.
Jesus saves.
No.
Jesus saves.
Nothing.
All right.
Well, according to a um I think this is is it Rasmusen or somebody else?
I don't think there was a source on this, but there's a new um there's a new poll that said that 71% of uh the US people surveyed were in support of Trump's admin the Trump administration destroying the narco drug boats.
So, it turns out it's a 7030 issue in favor of destroying the drug boats.
Now, given that it's a 7030 issue, of course Trump is doing it, you don't have to wonder if it's 7030.
If it's 7030, yeah, he's totally doing that because why wouldn't you?
Sometimes he does it while he's eating cheese.
So, he's actually protecting his brain while protecting the country.
Yeah, that's how it works.
Um, even 56% of Democrats are in support of blowing up those drug boats.
All right, I'll make my per here.
Here's my confession.
I'm not claiming to be such a good person.
I'm going to confess.
As you know, in 2018, most of you know this, uh, I lost my stepson to fentinyl, fentinyl overdose.
And I can watch narco drug boats get blown up all day long and still want to see another one.
Now I know I'm in the extreme because you know of my personal experience, but finding out that 70% of the public sort of agrees with me that watching these blow up is more good than bad.
I don't feel so bad.
So thank you.
Well, it's election day for some special case situations such as New York City's mayor and uh what is it?
New Jersey governor and somebody else I don't care about.
Um so the Wall Street Journal says that today will be a day that you will test Trump's low economics rating and see if that helps the Democrats get elected.
Why in the world does Trump have a low economic rating?
that does does it make sense with the data that we have?
You know, all all data is questionable, of course, but does it make sense with the data that we do have that he would have a low economic rating?
Because it seems to me that almost everything he's tried has worked.
you know, may maybe he and the the uh the Democrats are they're trying to hold him uh responsible to his hyperbole, as in he'll get rid of inflation on day one.
And the Democrats are actually criticizing him because he didn't get rid of he didn't lower prices.
He didn't lower prices on day one.
Really, you really expected him to lower prices on day one?
Now, he did lower sub prices.
He got your eggs down.
He got your gas down.
Beef's too high.
He has a plan, but I don't know if that's going to work.
But really, you you're you're going to compare him to the hyperbole, not to anything in the real world.
Do you know what hyperbole is?
It's imaginary, right?
Hyperbole is by definition the thing that doesn't match reality.
It's some extended imaginary version of reality.
What is the most consistent thing that Democrats do?
I think you know the answer.
They lean into the imaginary.
So their entire economic everything is literally based on imaginary stuff.
And they do it right in front of us and we even call it imaginary and we see it as imaginary.
It still works.
They're still convinces their base.
So, the base thinks there was some way that a human being could have lowered prices on day one of the presidency.
Okay.
All right.
It's pretty imaginary.
Um, and have you noticed that the Democrats have uh words about how they want to lower prices, such as mom Donnie in New York?
Assuming he wins, he wants to uh give away a bunch of stuff which he wants to pay for with taxes on rich people, many of whom want to leave if mom gets elected.
Now, do you think that the math works?
Of course not.
Of course, the math doesn't work.
Which means that his plan for lowering costs, and by the way, how much control does he have over a lot of this stuff?
The mayor doesn't have a lot of control over much of that stuff.
So, is their economic plan imaginary?
Yes, it is.
Now, is Trump's plan imaginary?
Well, so far whatever he wants to do with beef is unstated, but I doubt it would be imaginary.
I mean, I'm sure he's looking into real things.
So, imaginary versus not.
Anyway, um Mike is pointing out how the the latest New York City poll shows how looney voters are.
Crime is crime is listed as the residents of New York City's greatest uh issue.
it's their biggest issue.
Um, and they they want to and while crime is the biggest issue, the person that they want to elect is the one who would be softest on crime.
Now, can you explain that?
How can it be that crime is the biggest issue, but by a by a big factor, they're still willing to elect the guy who's the softest on crime, their biggest issue?
Well, there is a reason.
It's called follow the money.
Because if they believe that they can get free stuff from mom, Donnie and they don't have another mechanism for getting stuff.
I mean, if you were poor, you'd think, well, I'm poor and it's not going to change.
Might as well get some free stuff.
And then I would say, but what about crime?
And then you would say, what about eating?
What about eating?
So eating is a little bigger than crime.
So, uh, while it looks crazy that the people who say their biggest issue is crime are going to vote for exactly the opposite of a solution, if you imagine that their real problem is always affording to eat, maybe they don't say it or maybe they don't list it because maybe they just think crime is the right answer to the question.
But people will follow their money.
They're not going to they they won't even follow danger because the danger seems a little theoretical like if you stay away from this part of town it won't be much of a problem but what are you going to do about eating?
So it's probably about affordability.
Um or they're they're experiencing suicidal empathy or there's a bubble where they just don't see the world the same as you.
All right.
There's allegedly New York Post says, "I don't believe any of this, but nearly a million New Yorkers are ready to flee New York City if Mum Dami is mayor.
Really?
Do you believe that uh 765,000 people must have been a poll?" Uh- which is, you know, you could argue that's a million.
765.
That's a lot of rounding.
It's a little too much rounding to go from 765,000 to a million.
It's almost a million.
It's close to threequarters of a million.
Let's say uh that would be 9% of New Yorkers.
And apparently these are people who say they would definitely leave.
I This is a sort of poll where people are answering in the way they think they can influence reality.
It's not exactly necessarily their opinion.
or what they're going to do.
It might be the message they want to send and they want you to know if you elect this overt taxing under criminal fighting guy that they'd rather live somewhere else in here.
But would they actually move when they look at all the pain in the ass of moving and where they work and where their family is and all that?
A million 9%.
That seems a little high, but maybe it's just to influence the uh the election.
Well, today is a big day for me.
Right after this show, I'm gonna uh go over to a medical facility at Kaiser and get the blue plcto, which is a promising cancer drug.
About onethird of the people get uh a really good response, as in their tumors just sort of melt away, which is remarkable.
It's not a cure, but you can really make a difference in your your life.
about one-third get some kind of improvement, but it's not, you know, melting the tumors away.
So, I'd still be happy with, you know, some amount of improvement.
Uh, but a one-third of the people might end up worse off, you know.
So, two out of three chance I'll be happier, one out of three chance I'll be less happy.
We'll see.
I like the odds.
On top of that, uh, I've connected with, uh, Dr.
Patrick Sununio, if I'm pronouncing it right.
I'm always so worried I'm pronouncing his last name wrong.
And you might have seen him on uh, Dr.
Drew's show.
You may have seen him on Tucker's show.
He's been on a few podcasts.
Um, and I didn't know too much about him until recently when he when he when I was connected with him through the Trump administration.
And um, he yeah, he has a product called Bioshield.
Uh, he has 850 patents.
Let me say that again.
He has 850 patents and his resume is so impressive that I was going to tell you a little bit about, you know, where he's worked and what he's accomplished.
It's so impressive that you can't even start.
It's like the most impressive resume you've ever heard in your life.
And I and I got to talk to some people who know some people who know him and by reputation, etc.
So, he has the highest the highest credibility, best reputation you'll have ever seen in your life.
Uh, but he's impossible to summarize.
So, he owns, you know, he owns the LA Times, but he's not a newspaper guy.
uh he's a doctor but he's specializing in creating uh creating drugs and he's created a a pro well how would I say this he's come up with a process which so far seems to be very promising very promising as in you know every single day people send me stories of somebody who thinks they can cure cancer with I don't know pumpkin seeds or some damn thing uh but This is the first time that I've looked into it and thought, whoa, this is actually credible.
So, in my opinion, not as a doctor, right?
Remember, this is not medical advice.
So, there's no medical advice that's going to follow.
But in my opinion, as a patient, I am now about to embark on the two most promising uh ways to treat my specific situation.
Uh, some people complained and they said, "Wait a minute, why is this rich guy getting this special special Trump administration treatment and would regular people get this treatment?" And the answer is I'm doing this for everyone.
Now obviously it's mostly to keep myself alive but you don't think if I fix this problem the problem being you know fixing the distribution of this promising drug you don't think if I fix at least the communication with the patients and and raise the raise the awareness of this drug you don't think that helps other people that the whole theory here is that if I can fix it for myself then it gets fixed it's not just fakes for me.
It would be primarily for anybody who had the same problem and didn't have the, you know, didn't have the good fortune to have apparently some of the best friends in the world.
Some of them I didn't even know about.
But boy am I appreciative.
Uh and and I promise you that if I get a good result, everybody's going to know.
That's part of the play.
Part of the play is that first I escape from the jail, but then I go back and I free the other prisoners.
In this case, the prisoners would be people who have cancer, the kind I have.
And if I can, I'll burn down the prison and take the warden as a hostage.
So, this is always a bigger play.
It's not about me specifically, but but I understand the criticism.
I could understand why people would see that.
Uh yesterday even Elon Musk weighed in, used Grock to show me that there were some cancer treatment alternatives if the ones I'm trying don't work.
Uh so yes, my medical treatment involved Trump, the administration, Elon Musk, Kaiser, and by the way, Kaiser is doing a great job uh at the moment.
They're doing a great job of communicating and getting me in where I need to get.
So, A+ for Kaiser for making the adjustment.
You You know how I judge people, right?
I've told you my this is a reframe as well.
The The best reframe for judging people or processes is not what they did, although it seems obvious that that should be the way, right?
It's how they respond to what they did.
How they're responding is excellent.
And that that's how I will evaluate them.
I'll evaluate them based on the response.
So A+ um you might remember I brag about this too often that I am the only nonAI expert I think.
No that's not true.
There must be lots of others.
But I'm one of the public figures who's been saying since the early days of AI that, hey, I don't think this large language model thing that keeps hallucinating could possibly be useful for anything except, you know, fun little chats.
Like, you'd never be able to use it for anything.
Cuz when AI was new, you knew that I tried to use it for something.
And what I tried to use it for was what I thought was literally the easiest thing it could do, which is look at a file I'd created and tell me what's in the file.
Like, what could be easier than that?
If you're AI, it can't do that.
And if it can't look at a file and accurately tell you what's in it, and and I know you think it can, and you think, "Oh, I build this special file.
It's called a rag.
Then it does." No, it can't.
No.
But here's what the New Yorker says that there's an MIT study that found that 95% of the companies that invested in AI uh tools, these are not the companies producing AI, but the ones using them, we're seeing seeing zero returns.
And it's they say it jives with the emerging idea that generative AI quote in its current AR incarnation simply isn't all it's cracked up to be.
John Cassidy is writing about that in the New Yorker.
Now, does that sound like meat two years ago?
It does, right?
Was I not two years ahead of that?
If you used it for five minutes, you could see that it could it just didn't didn't have the right tool.
Just wasn't wasn't ready.
And it didn't look like it could possibly be ready, which is what I think is different in my case.
A lot of people said it's not ready, but other people said if you just keep feeding it words, it'll become smarter.
No, I said if you keep feeding it words, it'll become more like people.
It won't get smarter, if you know what I mean.
So, Axios is writing also that the layoffs the layoffs might be going up and that companies are only using AI as an excuse for their public explanation of why they're laying off people.
Who was the first one to tell you that the companies would lie that AI was the reason they were laying off people?
Because then they could get a twofer.
The twofer is, oh, you reduced expenses by laying off people.
Yay.
Oh, you're also a pioneer in AI and you've made it work so quickly that you could lay off people.
God, you're amazing.
I I told you that the the most likely Gilbert future was that companies would lie and say the AI is why they were laying off people.
And here it is.
Axios is reporting companies are lying.
They're calling it the layoff boomerang.
meaning that you they lay them off, but you're going to have to hire them back eventually when the AI doesn't work.
So, that's a pretty big deal.
And uh one last thing on that same point, actually two last things.
Chat GPT has announced that Chat GPT will no longer give health or legal advice.
What do you use AI for?
Mostly health and legal advice.
Those are the two categories I use it the most.
Now I was aware that I would still have to check my work, but it is what I use it the most for.
I mean there are all kinds of legal if if you count tax and insurance and all that within the legal domain all the time.
Now let me ask you this for those of you who've been watching me.
Did I or did I not tell you at the birth of this AI bubble?
Did I not tell you that AI would be limited by these special interest human groups who didn't want to be replaced?
Is that what's happening?
Or is Chat GPT just independently thinking they're going to get in trouble if they accidentally give bad legal advice or accidentally give bad health advice?
Both of which are guaranteed if you have a hallucinating AI.
right now.
How did anybody else tell you that humans will block AI from doing what AI does?
Even if it even if it could do perfect legal advice, even if it could do perfect health advice, I told you that humans would block it because they don't want to lose the power of being the gatekeeper to what is true about your health or what is true about your your legal situation.
Now, that was a pretty damn good prediction, wasn't it?
I mean, I I feel like I can take credit for that.
Uh, and then it gets better.
Uh, there's a new study according to Medium, Lewis Call, is writing about this that finds that AI models write code.
Oh, okay.
Well, here's the one thing that AI can do well, right?
The one thing that people say, well, AI can help you write code faster.
And you know, that that that did the filibuster just end.
I just saw something in the notes.
Let me get back to that.
Um, but apparently there was a study that said that AI models write code and that's good.
But, uh, 18 to 50% of the time it writes code with security flaws.
Do you think the human is going to catch all the security flaws by looking carefully at every line of code written by the AI?
Or do you think that a normal human being would say, "Oh, AI, write this part bit of code, slap it in their program, and then write the part that they write, and then slap in some more AI code." Which do you think sounds more reasonable that the human would, you know, in great detail check every line of code the AI wrote just to make sure it didn't have these security flaws?
No, no, no.
Well, they're just going to put them in the the program unless they're like gaping and obvious, I guess.
So, let's see.
It can't do coding.
It can't do legal.
It can't do health.
And it can't help you in any productivity way by doing tasks.
It's called AI people.
It might be a bubble.
Um, but I will let me give some uh comfort to those of you who are complaining in your head right now.
I do understand that we're at the beginning of AI, not the end.
Can you give me that?
I do understand that somebody might figure out how to solve all these problems.
I understand.
But at the moment, it's right on my prediction.
Uh, which doesn't mean it will always be so.
So I I do I do accept the inevitability of a superior AI intellect, but we're just not close.
It would be some entirely different technology.
And there are people working on entirely different technologies.
So it's not like it's not going to happen.
It just isn't happening yet.
That's my only point.
All right.
Um apparently there's some new news about Comey.
So, you know, Comey is in trouble.
You know, I hate all these legal stories, but as best I remember, Comey had his friend leak some stuff and then did he lie to Congress about leaking stuff and now the lie is the is the issue that he might be jailed for the lie?
Well, apparently some more documents were discovered from Comey and that time.
and uh he said among other things, "Well done, my friend.
Who knew this would be so much fun?" Talking about uh an email after his uh his special government employee, this guy named Dan Richmond um had leaked to the New York Times allegedly.
So, this is all alleged, but uh apparently there's some pretty clear paper trail now that he did exactly what he's accused of.
And uh I saw some writing on this and uh um yeah, John Solomon, let's say John Solomon and Jerry Dunle for who write for Just the News.
So Just the News is the one seems to be carrying the details of this if you want to catch up on that.
John Solomon is doing a great job.
You know, every time I listen to John Sullivan on Fox News, I say to myself, my god, he's, you know, he and others totally have the goods now, and there's there's no way this isn't going to result in jail time.
Oh, god damn it.
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Anyway, uh this is also a Mike Cernovich post.
He said that uh the court exhibits filed in the Kobe case are damning.
Usually you don't see such evidence until trial.
remember he's uh CERN knows also went to law school.
I don't know what his status is, but he's he's speaking as somebody who knows what he's talking about.
Um but since there was a pending motion to dismiss, they're made public and uh Mike says this is an open and shut case, although the judge will try to rig it uh and the jury nullification risk too.
Man, that feels like what's going to happen, doesn't it?
Doesn't it feel like it's a real thing?
and there's a real crime and we have absolute proof that the crime happened.
It would be easy to prove and still and still there will be no no justice, if you will.
I I think I agree with that.
The the odds of no justice are higher than the odds of justice.
One way or the other, that's what it feels like.
I think I skipped something I was going to talk about.
So, have you noticed that there's uh what's been called some kind of internal fight among uh Republicans and MAGA people?
So, here here are the names.
You you'll recognize this.
A lot of this is over Israel, but on one side, and that's really the wrong phrase.
They're not really on a side, but but people are trying to make this into sides.
And they would say that Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes and they'd throw in Marjorie Taylor Green and even uh Charlie Kirk at this point and they would say they're anti-Israel.
Maybe some of them or all of them were anti-Semitic.
So that's the that's the internal battle that's going on.
And then the other side, those people would be not too happy with Mark Levvin and Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin and Ted Cruz and Laura Loomer and I'm forgetting some names.
So roughly speaking, the press I think more the press more than anything and also maybe some board podcasters uh are trying to make it that there's some you know uh there's some split in the mega or Republican world or conservative world now because I think in reframes and I I think differently.
I think when I see that the Republicans are fighting each other, do you know what that means?
The the first thing I think about that the first thing I think is you only fight with each other when you've won everything else.
The Republicans have so won against Democrats and the Democrats are no fun to fight against anymore, but everybody's everybody's always up for a fight.
I mean, it's sort of a a fighty kind of a you know, domain that it's such a luxury to be able to turn on your own your own team.
It's just a luxury.
It's like, hey, we took care of the enemy.
Let's fight with each other now.
It's like my cats fighting.
You know, if my if my cats saw some wild animal come in the garage, you know, they might gang up and say, "All right, it's cats against squirrel.
You take him on the left, I'll take him on the right." But if you take the squirrel out of the garage, then the cats fight with each other because that's who's around.
So when I watch this, I I just I'm having trouble getting fully engaged because the bigger picture is that you won.
The bigger picture is you won.
You don't get to even have this conversation unless you've taken care of the important stuff and then you get to fight about, you know, this.
But I'll give you my overall opinion of who's an anti-semite and who's just uh America first because it's terribly important that you know my opinion on this completely unimportant topic.
And it goes like this.
If I were Jewish, I would think half the people I named are anti-Semitic.
That's it.
That's my opinion.
If I were Jewish, then I would have a different filter on life, right?
Of course, you'd have a different filter.
You'd be a little more sensitive to, "Wait a minute, you didn't say directly, but you sure walked up to that line." And then if somebody walks up to that line more than once, then I change my view and I go, "You went up to that line a lot of times.
Why are you so interested in walking up to that line?
Why why is it important to you that you going to talk about this topic like I am right now so much?
Huh?
A little suspicious.
So, in just the way if you're a meal loving person and Democrats say something, you automatically think they're lying, right?
And vice versa.
When I when I got cancelled, uh, pretty much all of black America, at least the ones that lean left, thought, "My god, that's so racist." Do you know how many MAGA people thought it was racist as opposed to a common statement about protecting yourself?
Almost none.
So, was it racist or not racist?
It depended who you were.
It just depended who you were.
So, let me say clearly, if I were if I were Jewish, I'd be pretty worried about some of these cats.
I don't need to name names.
You know what I'm talking about.
But if you're not Jewish, you would hear exactly the same messages if you're paying attention, if you cared, and you'd say to yourself, "Huh, that's close to being anti-semitic, but really, it's just free speech and it's just America first." Which one of those is true?
Well, if I've taught you anything, it's two movies on one screen.
Truth, I don't know if we have access to that.
But prediction, we do.
So, I would say that if you can make a prediction that holds based on your view of these people and their opinions, then you might have something.
You might have something.
But if it doesn't predict, as in, you know, let I'll give you an example.
If the next thing that Tucker Carlson does is unambiguously, I don't know, pro-Jewish or pro-American or pro- Israel, would you say to yourself, "Oh, okay, that looks different." Now, I don't think he's going to do that necessarily, but I'm saying that if you can't predict, you have to check your, you know, check your worldview.
I've got more on that coming.
Well, uh, Speaker Johnson said he's trying to reframe the government shutdown as, uh, uh, as as the Democrats want to cut 50 billion from the rural hospital fund.
So, that basically they're ransoming the government.
Um, here's what I think about this whole who's to blame for closing the uh or not opening.
Even CNN is going hard at the Democrats.
Have you noticed that the the CNN hosts are doing an absolutely completely respectable job and I I have to I just have to call that out.
So, everybody from Jake Tapper to um I don't know the other hosts, they say directly to their Democrat friends, how is this the Republicans's fault if you can just vote it to be open?
Which is, you know, the ideal question.
How is it their fault if you could open it anytime you want?
Then they're like, "Whoa, whoa, well, well, so we're only a leverage, but we're trying to feed the They don't want to feed the Okay, but everybody would get everything if you just voted yes.
Oh, yeah.
The word salad.
So, I don't think there's any question um that the Democrats are acting like turds.
That they're acting like such turds.
I think it's even embarrassing to CNN.
like actually embarrassing, you know, because they're they feel associated.
I would guess I would guess if you work for CNN, people assume you're a Democrat and then they see even CNN saying, "Okay, this is just This is total All you have to do is vote and you can have everything you wanted for seven weeks and then negotiate the rest." Exactly what the Republicans are telling you.
So, but I noticed that when Trump was on 60 Minutes and the topic came up, did you notice that before the question was finished, he said it was the Democrat's fault.
Did anybody catch that?
So, it was Norah O'Donnell in 60 Minutes and she starts to ceue up the question.
Before she was done asking the question, he goes, "This is the Democrat's fault.
Now, what have I taught you about the primary tool of persuasion?" The primary tool of persuasion is repetition.
Whoever repeats the most wins.
So he makes sure that he said it before she even he even finished the question.
Now that's good technique because that gets in your head first.
He needed to get that in the head first so that she would respond to him instead of he was responding to her.
Do you see how clever that was?
That was super clever that he that he uh talked over her and gave her the answer before she asked the question.
If she had been able to ask the question, it would have been framed as why do you rep why won't you Republicans open up the government, but because he front ran her he front he front ran her while she was still talking all the way to it's it's the Democrat's fault that he framed it before she got to it.
Now, you don't sometimes you don't notice the little things that he does.
They're just perfect that you would have to be so experienced in public life to know that getting there before she finished the sentence was going to give you an advantage.
I mean, it's just brilliant persuasion wise.
This is what I noticed in him, you know, on day one of his running in 2015.
I was like, wow, he's different.
He he seems to understand things like other people don't understand them.
This this would be one.
Now, um, apparently the, uh, te did you know the Texas Texas Texas Governor Abbott said that he's going to, this can't possibly be true, but he says that if any New Yorkers try to flee New York after Mammy's win, they'll be slapped with 100% tariff.
That couldn't be true, could it?
How how would you even do that?
You're going to slap a million people a tariff on a million people who came from New York.
Okay.
The Daily Mail is reporting that Stefan Leapor.
All right.
I'm going to put that in the category of Well, I doubt it.
Uh let's see what else we got going on here.
There's a claim from whistleblower.
I saw this on Breaking 911, which is on X, uh, that the BBC completely doctorred some Trump quotes to make it look like he had uh, you know, sort of organized the January 6 quote insurrection, as they would call it.
Uh, but so I I saw a video on it and uh, so I'll wait for more credibility on this story, but what it looked like is the worst edit I've ever seen.
meaning totally illegal.
You know, I'm not talking about, you remember when CBS did their little edit of uh uh of uh what's her name?
Um I've already forgotten her, Kla Harris.
I believe she was vice president.
Yeah.
So when when 60 Minutes did their edit of her, I actually semi-defended her and them but by saying that it's not unusual for a big media thing to edit for clarity.
And it wasn't too far off from clarity, but it was enough that they, you know, settled in a court and they didn't admit any wrongdoing, but they needed to settle.
Um, so that so I don't mind editing for clarity, but whatever the BBC is accused of, according to at least one video I saw, was not clarity.
It was literally just changing what he said to what they wanted him to say because they could piece two unrelated sentences together that were 54 minutes apart or seconds or something, but they were pretty far apart.
So, if this is true, the BBC is going to owe Trump a lot of money.
So, wait for if you if you're looking for whether this is credible.
Uh, I'd look for the lawsuit if the lawsuit drops today.
Yes, the BBC edited him.
Um Rasmusen poll according to Newsmax says that the majority of of uh voters 52% they want anybody who used the auto pen under Biden and they did it without proper authorization wants them prosecuted.
So only if they used it without authorization which seems reasonable but wouldn't everybody agree with that?
It's hard to imagine there's anybody who disagrees with the question, if they use the autopen inappropriately, should they be punished?
Yes.
Yeah.
If they use it inappropriately, of course.
Anyway, uh there's always a new Bill Maher quote.
He was in his club random talking to somebody I didn't care about.
And uh what he said was uh this is just a pure compliment to Trump.
It's one of the best compliments I've ever seen Trump get and it's coming from Bill Maher.
Now to his credit once Bill met Trump in person.
He did drop all of his uh criticisms about his crazy personality because that wasn't wasn't demonstrated at all in person.
But he still maintained, you know, a strong preference for the other side.
Still thinks that Trump was tried to do an insurrection on January 6, which is Bill's personal tenpole hoax.
He can't get past that hoax.
But uh so he has complimented Trump just for being willing to talk to the other side and getting some stuff done like the border, but never this much.
This is a new level of compliment and I don't know if it means anything.
I don't expect Bill Maher to become a Republican too far.
But look at the look at the evolution of his thinking from these little compliments to now this one.
So he said a club random quote about Trump.
He didn't play the silly game that the other presidents do like well we have to be even Steven.
He's talking about the Middle East now.
He says who knows who is right.
the people who treasure life are the people who treasure death, Bill says rhetorically.
And then he goes, uh, he said, "No, I'm with Israel.
Let's see how this works out.
I'm with Western values.
I think democracy is better than theocracy." And so then Bill closes with the the keeper.
He goes, "The Jews love him more than any president ever, and the Arabs do, too.
That's quite a hat-tick.
You got to give it up for that one.
Yeah, I got to give it up for that one.
Who else could make the Jews and the Arabs in the Middle East both think he was the best president?
I mean, maybe Hamas has a problem, but not Saudi Arabia.
Is that the Is that one of the best compliments you've ever heard of any politician of any time?
That that's got to be right at the top of the the best thing you could ever say about a president that he made the Jews and the Arabs in the Middle East think he was the best president.
And I I think he did that.
That's actually real.
I think he actually did that.
I'd never thought of it that way.
So here's what I mean by the evolution of Bill's thinking.
He's clearly now embraced that Trump is not crazy.
And and by this I would say he's clearly embraced that Trump brings tools to the game that other people just didn't have.
They just didn't have those tools.
Now, he still he still prefers other policies.
Perfectly reasonable thing.
But uh this is one hell of an evolution uh into the light because he's 100% right about this.
Right?
This lefty's 100% right.
And if I can get him to break the tenpole hoax about somehow all those Republicans thought they could take over the country by wandering around in one building without weapons, which is what he believes.
If we can make that tenpole hoax go away, it's going to look really different.
His world will look really different.
Anyway, so remember I told you that if your worldview does not predict, you should look at it again, right?
So, Bill Maher is now squarely moved into a worldview that will predict because now that he understands that Trump just has powers that other pe other politicians just don't have, they just can't do some things like, you know, maybe get the hostages back, maybe only him, like uh solve eight military conflicts in 8 months or whatever it was.
Maybe that's only him.
I mean, there's close the border.
Maybe he's the only one who could be enough of a bastard and take enough of the heat that he could actually close the border.
Um, I've told you before that if you were to summarize why it was that I supported Trump from earlier days, here's my reasoning.
I don't know if I've ever said this explicitly, but when I looked at him, I said, uh, we've never seen that toolbox before.
He could solve problems that a president can't solve.
A normal president, you know, a modern president might.
But, uh, it was just obvious to me from almost day one that he was a solver with a set of tools that was unlike anything we'd ever seen.
And every now and then, you don't want a normie president.
You You can't have a normal president throughout all time because they won't get it done.
There'll always be these little pockets of things such as the border that that they act like they can't solve.
Sometimes you need to bring in the the big wizard to solve the things that nobody can solve.
Trump is taking on all the hardest problems, like the really hard ones, like the super hard problems, and he's just checking them off.
Check, check, check.
Middle East peace, check, check.
I mean, it's crazy.
So, when I watch him when I watch him solve the unsolvable, I say that's that's it.
That's the thing.
That's the reason I support him.
Is it because he says uh insults to people?
I I kind of enjoy that.
But no, that's not why I support him.
Yeah, I don't support him because the insults.
So, when I say that if your world worldview predicts it might be accurate.
So, I'm gonna I'm gonna give you Do you remember a prediction I made?
I made a prediction that Trump will always take the strongest position on every policy, even if he knows that the strongest position could never get done.
Maybe because it's too hard, too expensive, Democrats hate it too much, unconstitutional, the courts will stop it.
And I told you that he'll always take the strongest position and that in the long run that's a winning strategy.
No matter how many times he gets shot down from being able to do the strongest thing, it's still smart to say the strongest thing.
And here's the best example.
And that 60 Minutes interview with uh um with O'Donnell, uh he was asked, "Do you think do you think all these anecdotal situations with ICE allegedly doing rough tactics with individuals?" She goes, "Do you think, you know, I forget the exact question, but uh do you think it went too far?" Now when she Nora uh so when Norah asked that it was about individual cases which she mentioned you know this case this case this case she goes do you think it went too far ICE what do you think Trump said what would my prediction be my prediction would be if he always takes the strongest stance that he's not only going to say it didn't go too far but that it should go farther and that's what he did But he changed the context and then CBS of course and the pundits will pretend he didn't.
But he changed the context away from these individual cases which nobody could really defend because you don't know what happened really.
Uh he he changed it to the question of immigration.
So he was saying we haven't done enough for immigration but she was asking about these specific cases.
So he found a way to make it yes, we should even do more.
It was it was the way to do it.
It was exactly right from a persuasion point of view.
Again, only Trump.
Don't you think that a normal politician would have said something like, "Oh, we we need to look into those cases.
Those specific cases sound very bad.
We better look into those right away." Thank you very much for bringing that up to my attention.
Nope.
Trump says, "No, we shouldn't go harder." But he changes it to, you know, the general topic, not to the individuals.
What about uh what about Trump saying that he wants to resume nuclear detonation testing, which by the way, um Secretary Wright says that's not what we're talking about.
According to Secretary Wright, uh we're talking about testing the non-critical explosions.
So all all of the process up to but not including the actual nuclear bang.
So there is some question whether Trump ever meant that they would test the bang or whether he meant we would do what other countries do which is test everything that goes up to the bang but stops there.
Now he also said that China and Russia have been testing with actual detonations for years.
Have they?
I don't know.
It would be top secret if somebody knew that.
But he he teased it like our our intel people know that China and Russia have been, you know, continuously testing up to now.
I don't know that that's true.
But what would be the strongest thing, remember, we're talking about prediction.
What would be the strongest thing that Trump could say in this domain?
the strongest thing he could say is we're going to test we're going to test net detonations.
Now, it doesn't have to be true because it's also part of a negotiation which he's queuing up.
So, he would he would like both Russia and China to think, oh, there's something that we need to get them to stop doing.
And then he can he's invented an asset.
So, he's invented an asset as he always does before a big negotiation.
And the asset is, hey, we're going to do this blast testing of nuclear.
You surely don't want us to be doing this, so why don't we negotiate way negotiate all of our nuclear dangers at the same time?
So, it makes sense that he would go for the strongest position right before negotiation.
But do you see how well my my prediction holds?
If you simply said, what's the domain?
what's the what's the strongest thing a president could say and then you predicted that he would say that you'd be right most of the time.
So I believe that that my theory about him always taking the strongest position seems like reality because it predicts and it's it predicted twice yesterday.
I mean it worked twice yesterday.
That's a pretty good prediction.
So there was a question also on 60 minutes and other places.
Trump was asked about his pardon for the one of the founders of Binance I guess crypto site and he said weirdly that he doesn't even know who that is but maybe he was trying to say he doesn't know him personally or hasn't hasn't done business with him personally but he obviously u at one point I don't think he said it yesterday but maybe or Sunday but maybe he did uh he thought that the reason for pardoning him was that somebody told him it was that Biden was going after him.
So, it's because Biden was going after him.
Oh, I gota I got to run in one minute.
All right, we got one minute here.
Um, so yeah, there's a question about the two sons are in crypto, but I don't think anybody said anything illegal is happening.
Uh, forget about that one.
Trump is reportedly planning to send US troops and intelligence officers into Mexico to combat the drug cartels.
What would you call that?
That would be the strongest position.
Again, predictable three times in a row.
All right.
Uh the rest is some scientific stuff about bacteria that eats battery waste.
That's cool.
Atlantis may have been discovered.
That's cool.
And Ukraine may or may not have been responsible for some Hungarian explosions.
And that's all I've got for today.
And I'm not going to have time to talk to locals.
I got to run.
Going to get some medical treatment.
I'll give you an update tomorrow.
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my brain. That insult hurts me. It's
causing me damage." Right? We act like
we act like an insult hurts us. Well, it
does actually. You know, any anything
that you perceive becomes a part of your
memory, part of your brain. So, yeah,
somebody insults you, it might hang
around and cause a problem. So the old
way is that an insult is damaging to
your mental health. Here's a reframe
that you might take advantage of. The
reframe is that an insult is a
confession
from the other person. An insult is a
confession that your accuser can't
refute your opinion or has personal
problems of some sort.
T typically when somebody's uh
criticizing you, they're not the best
people and they're not in the best place
in life. And when once you realize, wait
a minute, these are not the best people
and they're not having a great life. If
if the thing that was the best thing
they could do today was criticize me,
that's not very good. I feel sorry for
my accuser.
Anyway, so an insult is a confession
that they don't have a good argument. Do
you know what people do when they have a
good argument? I I say this all the
time, but the more often you hear it,
the better. When people have a good
argument, you know what they do? They
use it. [laughter] They use a good
argument. When people don't have an
argument, what do they do? They call you
a communist
or they call you a fascist or something.
No, an insult. An insult is just a
confession.
So once you see it that way, the insults
don't bother you anymore.
Anyway,
how about some science? There's a new
study that says helping other people can
slow your cognitive decline by up to
20%. University of Texas said,
"Awesome." Now, how many of you knew
that this this refers to helping or
volunteering outside the home? I don't
know why they said outside the home.
seems like helping anywhere would be
good. But does that make sense to you
that if you become a helpful person
that it would be good for your own
brain?
Here's why that makes sense to me. I
have to admit I didn't know that. So if
you'd asked me, I'd say it feels
reasonable to expect it, but I didn't
know it. And the reason I would have
expected it is you've heard me talk
about how people are healthiest when
they're pursuing whatever is closest to
their biological evolutionary reality.
So I believe that people stay healthier.
This is just a hypothesis, but I I think
it's true that if the closer you are to
the mating process, the single most
important thing that a human can do,
because mating is sort of it's organized
our entire evolutionary path from, you
know, a million years ago. So, if you're
if you're any part
of the mating, producing children,
taking care of children process, it
probably your body probably stays
healthier. I'll bet if you did a study
of that, you'd you'd find that to be
true. So, it doesn't surprise me that if
you're being helpful, which is really
another way to protect the tribe, which
is really another way to protect the
mating instinct or or the mating process
of the tribe because you're just helping
other people and maybe they're having
the babies, maybe you are, but it's uh
it's got to be built into your DNA,
right?
So, something tells me that when you
orient your mind toward helping the
tribe,
I think you stay healthier. That doesn't
surprise me a bit.
Did you know that eating cheese once a
week is linked to a 24% lower dementia
risks?
Okay. So, what I'd recommend, and this
is from uh Natural News, Cassie B is
writing about it. I recommend helping
other people while eating cheese.
Because Jesus saves. Jesus saves.
No. Jesus saves.
Nothing. All right.
Well, according to a
um I think this is is it Rasmusen or
somebody else? I don't think there was a
source on this, but there's a new um
there's a new poll that said that 71% of
uh the US people surveyed were in
support of Trump's admin the Trump
administration destroying the narco drug
boats. So, it turns out it's a 7030
issue in favor of destroying the drug
boats. Now, given that it's a 7030
issue,
of course Trump is doing it, [laughter]
you don't have [clears throat] to wonder
if it's 7030. If it's 7030, yeah, he's
totally doing that because why wouldn't
you? Sometimes he does it while he's
eating cheese.
So, he's actually protecting his brain
while protecting the country. Yeah,
that's how it works. Um, even 56% of
Democrats are in support of blowing up
those drug boats.
All right, I'll make my per here. Here's
my confession.
I'm not claiming to be such a good
person.
I'm going to confess.
As you know, in 2018, most of you know
this, uh, I lost my stepson to fentinyl,
fentinyl overdose.
And
I can watch narco drug boats get blown
up all day long and still want to see
another one.
Now I know I'm in the extreme because
you know of my personal experience, but
finding out that 70% of the public sort
of agrees with me that watching these
blow up is more good than bad. I don't
feel so bad. So thank you. Well, it's
election day for some special case
situations such as New York City's mayor
and uh what is it? New Jersey governor
and somebody else I don't care about. Um
so the Wall Street Journal says that
today will be a day that you will test
Trump's low economics rating and see if
that helps the Democrats get elected.
Why in the world does Trump have a low
economic rating?
that does does it make sense with the
data that we have? You know, all all
data is questionable, of course, but
does it make sense with the data that we
do have that he would have a low
economic rating?
Because it seems to me that
almost everything he's tried has worked.
you know, may maybe he and the the uh
the Democrats are they're trying to hold
him uh responsible to his hyperbole,
as in he'll get rid of inflation on day
one. And the Democrats are actually
criticizing him because he didn't get
rid of he didn't lower prices. He didn't
lower prices on day one.
Really, you really expected him to lower
prices on day one?
Now, he did lower sub prices. He got
your eggs down. He got your gas down.
Beef's too high. He has a plan, but I
don't know if that's going to work. But
really,
you you're you're going to compare him
to the hyperbole, not to anything in the
real world. Do you know what hyperbole
is? It's imaginary,
right? Hyperbole is by definition the
thing that doesn't match reality. It's
some extended imaginary version of
reality.
What is the most consistent thing that
Democrats do?
I think you know the answer. They lean
into the imaginary.
So their entire economic
everything is literally based on
imaginary stuff. And they do it right in
front of us and we even call it
imaginary and we see it as imaginary. It
still works. They're still convinces
their base. So, the base thinks there
was some way that a human being could
have lowered prices on day one of the
presidency.
Okay. All right. It's pretty imaginary.
Um,
and have you noticed that the Democrats
have uh words about how they want to
lower prices, such as mom Donnie in New
York? Assuming he wins, he wants to uh
give away a bunch of stuff which he
wants to pay for with taxes on rich
people, many of whom want to leave if
mom gets elected. Now, do you think that
the math works? Of course not. Of
course, the math doesn't work. Which
means that his plan for lowering costs,
and by the way, how much control does he
have over a lot of this stuff? The mayor
doesn't have a lot of control over much
of that stuff. So,
is their economic plan imaginary? Yes,
it is. [laughter]
Now, is Trump's plan imaginary? Well, so
far whatever he wants to do with beef is
unstated, but I doubt it would be
imaginary.
I mean, I'm sure he's looking into real
things. So, imaginary versus not.
Anyway, um Mike is pointing out how the
the latest New York City poll
shows how looney voters are. Crime is
crime is listed as the residents of New
York City's greatest uh issue. it's
their biggest issue. Um, and they they
want to and while crime is the biggest
issue, the person that they want to
elect is the one who would be softest on
crime. Now, can you explain that? How
can it be that crime is the biggest
issue,
but by a by a big factor, they're still
willing to elect the guy who's the
softest on crime, their biggest issue?
Well, there is a reason. It's called
follow the money.
Because if they believe that they can
get free stuff from mom, Donnie and they
don't have another mechanism for getting
stuff. I mean, if you were poor,
you'd think, well, I'm poor and it's not
going to change. Might as well get some
free stuff. And then I would say, but
what about crime? And then you would
say, what about eating? What about
eating? So eating is a little bigger
than crime.
So, uh, while it looks crazy that the
people who say their biggest issue is
crime are going to vote for exactly the
opposite of a solution,
if you imagine that their real problem
is always affording to eat, maybe they
don't say it or maybe they don't list it
because maybe they just think crime is
the right answer to the question.
But people will follow their money.
They're not going to they they won't
even follow danger because the danger
seems a little theoretical like if you
stay away from this part of town it
won't be much of a problem but what are
you going to do about eating? So it's
probably about affordability.
Um or they're they're experiencing
suicidal empathy or there's a bubble
where they just don't see the world the
same as you.
All right.
There's allegedly New York Post says, "I
don't believe any of this, but nearly a
million New Yorkers are ready to flee
New York City if Mum Dami is mayor.
Really? Do you believe that uh 765,000
people must have been a poll?" Uh- which
is, you know, you could argue that's a
million. 765.
That's a lot of rounding.
It's a little too much rounding to go
from 765,000 to a million. It's almost a
million.
It's close to threequarters of a
million. Let's say
uh that would be 9% of New Yorkers.
[laughter]
And apparently these are people who say
they would definitely leave. I This is a
sort of poll where people are answering
in the way they think they can influence
reality. It's not exactly necessarily
their opinion.
or what they're going to do. It might be
the message they want to send and they
want you to know if you elect this overt
taxing under criminal fighting guy that
they'd rather live somewhere else in
here. But would they actually move when
they look at all the pain in the ass of
moving and where they work and where
their family is and all that? A million
9%.
That seems a little high, but maybe it's
just to influence the uh the election.
Well, today is a big day for me. Right
after this show, I'm gonna uh go over to
a medical facility at Kaiser and get the
blue plcto, which is a promising cancer
drug. About onethird of the people get
uh a really good response, as in their
tumors just sort of melt away, which is
remarkable. It's not a cure, but you can
really make a difference in your your
life. about one-third get some kind of
improvement, but it's not, you know,
melting the tumors away. So, I'd still
be happy with, you know, some amount of
improvement.
Uh, but a one-third of the people might
end up worse off, you know. So, two out
of three chance I'll be happier, one out
of three chance I'll be less happy.
We'll see. I like the odds. On top of
that, uh, I've connected with, uh, Dr.
Patrick Sununio, if I'm pronouncing it
right. I'm always so worried I'm
pronouncing his last name wrong. And you
might have seen him on
uh, Dr. Drew's show. You may have seen
him on Tucker's show. He's been on a few
podcasts. Um, and I didn't know too much
about him until recently when he when he
when I was connected with him through
the Trump administration.
And um, he yeah, he has a product called
Bioshield. Uh, he has 850 patents.
Let me say that again. He has 850
patents
and his resume is so impressive that I
was going to tell you a little bit
about, you know, where he's worked and
what he's accomplished. It's so
impressive that you can't even start.
It's like the most impressive resume
you've ever heard in your life. And I
and I got to talk to some people who
know some people who know him and by
reputation, etc. So, he has the highest
the highest credibility, best reputation
you'll have ever seen in your life. Uh,
but he's impossible to summarize. So, he
owns, you know, he owns the LA Times,
but he's not a newspaper guy.
uh he's a doctor but he's specializing
in creating uh creating drugs and he's
created a a pro well how would I say
this he's come up with a process which
so far seems to be very promising very
promising as in you know every single
day people send me stories of somebody
who thinks they can cure cancer with I
don't know pumpkin seeds or some damn
thing uh but This is the first time that
I've looked into it and thought, whoa,
this is actually credible. So, in my
opinion,
not as a doctor, right? Remember, this
is not medical advice. So, there's no
medical advice that's going to follow.
But in my opinion, as a patient, I am
now about to embark on the two most
promising
uh ways to treat my specific situation.
Uh, some people complained and they
said, "Wait a minute, why is this rich
guy getting this special special Trump
administration treatment and would
regular people get this treatment?" And
the answer is I'm doing this for
everyone. [laughter]
Now obviously it's mostly to keep myself
alive but you don't think if I fix this
problem the problem being you know
fixing the distribution of this
promising drug you don't think if I fix
at least the communication with the
patients and and raise the raise the
awareness of this drug you don't think
that helps other people
that the whole theory here is that if I
can fix it for myself then it gets fixed
it's not just fakes for me. It would be
primarily for anybody who had the same
problem and didn't have the, you know,
didn't have the good fortune to have
apparently some of the best friends in
the world. Some of them I didn't even
know about.
But boy am I appreciative.
Uh and and I promise you that if I get a
good result, everybody's going to know.
That's part of the play. Part of the
play is that first I escape from the
jail, but then I go back and I free the
other prisoners. In this case, the
prisoners would be people who have
cancer, the kind I have. And if I can,
I'll burn down the prison and take the
warden [laughter]
as a hostage. So, this is always a
bigger play. It's not about me
specifically, but but I understand the
criticism. I could understand why people
would see that. Uh yesterday even Elon
Musk weighed in, used Grock to show me
that there were some
cancer treatment alternatives if the
ones I'm trying don't work. Uh
so yes, my medical treatment involved
Trump, the administration, Elon Musk,
Kaiser,
and by the way, Kaiser is doing a great
job uh at the moment. They're doing a
great job of communicating and getting
me in where I need to get. So, A+ for
Kaiser for making the adjustment. You
You know how I judge people, right? I've
told you my this is a reframe as well.
The The best reframe for judging people
or processes is not what they did,
although it seems obvious that that
should be the way, right? It's how they
respond to what they did.
How they're responding is excellent. And
that that's how I will evaluate them.
I'll evaluate them based on the
response. So A+
um
you might remember I brag about this too
often that I am the only nonAI expert I
think. No that's not true. There must be
lots of others. But I'm one of the
public figures who's been saying since
the early days of AI that, hey, I don't
think this large language model thing
that keeps hallucinating could possibly
be useful for anything except,
you know, fun little chats. Like, you'd
never be able to use it for anything.
Cuz when AI was new, you knew that I
tried to use it for something. And what
I tried to use it for was what I thought
was literally the easiest thing it could
do, which is look at a file I'd created
and tell me what's in the file. Like,
what could be easier than that? If
you're AI, it can't do that. And if it
can't look at a file and accurately tell
you what's in it, and and I know you
think it can, and you think, "Oh, I
build this special file. It's called a
rag. Then it does." No, it can't. No.
But here's what the New Yorker says that
there's an MIT study that found that 95%
of the companies that invested in AI
uh tools, these are not the companies
producing AI, but the ones using them,
we're seeing seeing zero returns.
And it's they say it jives with the
emerging idea that generative AI quote
in its current AR incarnation simply
isn't all it's cracked up to be. John
Cassidy is writing about that in the New
Yorker. Now, does that sound like meat
two years ago? It does, right? Was I not
two years ahead of that?
If you used it for five minutes, you
could see that it could it just didn't
didn't have the right tool. Just wasn't
wasn't ready. And it didn't look like it
could possibly be ready, which is what I
think is different in my case. A lot of
people said it's not ready, but other
people said if you just keep feeding it
words, it'll become smarter. No, I said
if you keep feeding it words, it'll
become more like people. It won't get
smarter, if you know what I mean.
So, Axios is writing also that the
layoffs the layoffs might be going up
and that companies are only using AI as
an excuse for their public explanation
of why they're laying off people. Who
was the first one to tell you that the
companies would lie that AI was the
reason they were laying off people?
Because then they could get a twofer.
The twofer is, oh, you reduced expenses
by laying off people. Yay. Oh, you're
also a pioneer in AI and you've made it
work so quickly that you could lay off
people. God, you're amazing.
I I told you that the the most likely
Gilbert future
was that companies would lie and say the
AI is why they were laying off people.
And here it is. Axios is reporting
companies are lying. They're calling it
the layoff boomerang.
meaning that you they lay them off, but
you're going to have to hire them back
eventually when the AI doesn't work.
So, that's a pretty big deal. And uh one
last thing on that same point, actually
two last things. Chat GPT has announced
that Chat GPT will no longer give health
or legal advice.
What do you use AI for?
Mostly health and legal advice.
[laughter]
Those are the two categories I use it
the most.
Now I was aware that I would still have
to check my work, but it is what I use
it the most for. I mean there are all
kinds of legal if if you count tax and
insurance and all that within the legal
domain
all the time. Now let me ask you this
for those of you who've been watching
me. Did I or did I not tell you at the
birth of this AI bubble? Did I not tell
you that AI would be limited by these
special interest human groups who didn't
want to be replaced? Is that what's
happening? Or is Chat GPT just
independently thinking they're going to
get in trouble if they accidentally give
bad legal advice or accidentally give
bad health advice? Both of which are
guaranteed if you have a hallucinating
AI.
right now. How did anybody else tell you
that humans will block AI from doing
what AI does? Even if it even if it
could do perfect
legal advice, even if it could do
perfect health advice, I told you that
humans would block it because they don't
want to lose the power of being the
gatekeeper to what is true about your
health or what is true about your your
legal situation. Now, that was a pretty
damn good prediction, wasn't it?
I mean, I I feel like I can take credit
for that.
Uh, and then it gets better. Uh, there's
a new study according to Medium, Lewis
Call, is writing about this that finds
that AI models write code. Oh, okay.
Well, here's the one thing that AI can
do well, right? The one thing that
people say, well, AI can help you write
code faster. And you know, that that
that did the filibuster just end. I just
saw something in the notes. Let me get
back to that. Um, but apparently there
was a study that said that AI models
write code and that's good. But, uh, 18
to 50% of the time it writes code with
security flaws.
Do you think the human is going to catch
all the security flaws by looking
carefully at every line of code written
by the AI? Or do you think that a normal
human being would say, "Oh, AI, write
this part bit of code, slap it in their
program, and then write the part that
they write, and then slap in some more
AI code." Which do you think sounds more
reasonable that the human would, you
know, in great detail check every line
of code the AI wrote just to make sure
it didn't have these security flaws? No,
[laughter]
no, no. Well, they're just going to put
them in the the program unless they're
like gaping and obvious, I guess. So,
let's see. It can't do coding. It can't
do legal. It can't do health. And it
can't help you in any productivity way
by doing tasks.
It's called AI people. It might be a
bubble. Um, but I will let me give some
uh comfort to those of you who are
complaining in your head right now. I do
understand that we're at the beginning
of AI, not the end.
Can you give me that? I do understand
that somebody might figure out how to
solve all these problems. I understand.
But at the moment, it's right on my
prediction. Uh, which doesn't mean it
will always be so. So I I do I do accept
the inevitability of a superior
AI intellect, but we're just not close.
It would be some entirely different
technology. And there are people working
on entirely different technologies. So
it's not like it's not going to happen.
It just isn't happening yet. That's my
only point.
All right. Um apparently there's some
new news about Comey. So, you know,
Comey is in trouble. You know, I hate
all these legal stories, but as best I
remember,
Comey had his friend leak some stuff and
then did he lie to Congress about
leaking stuff and now the lie is the is
the issue that he might be jailed for
the lie? Well, apparently some more
documents were discovered from Comey and
that time. and uh he said among other
things, "Well done, my friend. Who knew
this would be so much fun?" Talking
about uh an email after his uh his
special government employee, this guy
named Dan Richmond
um had leaked to the New York Times
allegedly. So, this is all alleged, but
uh apparently there's some pretty clear
paper trail now that he did exactly what
he's accused of. And uh
I saw some writing on this and uh
um yeah, John Solomon, let's say John
Solomon and Jerry Dunle for who write
for Just the News. So Just the News is
the one seems to be carrying the details
of this if you want to catch up on that.
John Solomon is doing a great job. You
know, every time I listen to John
Sullivan on Fox News, I say to myself,
my god, he's, you know, he and others
totally have the goods now, and there's
there's no way this isn't going to
result in jail time. Oh, god damn it.
My
Sorry,
I just had a computer
problem because why
Why? All right. Solved.
Solved. So I can see your comments
again.
All right. All good.
Anyway, uh
this is also a Mike Cernovich post. He
said that uh the court exhibits filed in
the Kobe case are damning. Usually you
don't see such evidence until trial.
remember he's uh CERN knows also went to
law school. I don't know what his status
is, but he's he's speaking as somebody
who knows what he's talking about. Um
but since there was a pending motion to
dismiss, they're made public
and uh Mike says this is an open and
shut case, although the judge will try
to rig it uh and the jury nullification
risk too. Man, that feels like what's
going to happen, doesn't it? Doesn't it
feel like it's a real thing?
and there's a real crime and we have
absolute proof that the crime happened.
It would be easy to prove and still and
still there will be no no justice, if
you will.
I I think I agree with that. The the
odds of no justice are higher than the
odds of justice. One way or the other,
that's what it feels like.
I think I skipped something I was going
to talk about. So, have you noticed that
there's uh what's been called some kind
of internal fight among uh Republicans
and MAGA people? So, here here are the
names. You you'll recognize this. A lot
of this is over Israel, but on one side,
and that's really the wrong phrase.
They're not really on a side, but but
people are trying to make this into
sides. And they would say that Tucker
Carlson and Candace Owens and Nick
Fuentes and they'd throw in Marjorie
Taylor Green and even uh Charlie Kirk at
this point and they would say they're
anti-Israel.
Maybe some of them or all of them were
anti-Semitic.
So that's the that's the internal battle
that's going on. And then the other
side, those people would be not too
happy with Mark Levvin and Ben Shapiro
and Dave Rubin and Ted Cruz and Laura
Loomer and I'm forgetting some names. So
roughly speaking, the press I think more
the press more than anything and also
maybe some board podcasters uh are
trying to make it that there's some you
know uh there's some split in the mega
or Republican world or conservative
world now because I think in reframes
and I I think differently. I think when
I see that the Republicans are fighting
each other, do you know what that means?
The the first thing I think about that
the first thing I think is you only
fight with each other when you've won
everything else.
The Republicans have so won against
Democrats and the Democrats are no fun
to fight against anymore, but
everybody's everybody's always up for a
fight. I mean, it's sort of a a fighty
kind of a you know, domain that it's
such a luxury to be able to turn on your
own your own team. It's just a luxury.
It's like, hey, we took care of the
enemy. Let's fight with each other now.
It's like my cats fighting. You know, if
my if my cats saw some wild animal come
in the garage, you know, they might gang
up and say, "All right, it's cats
against squirrel.
You take him on the left, I'll take him
on the right."
But if you take the squirrel out of the
garage, then the cats fight with each
other because that's who's around.
[laughter]
So when I watch this, I I just I'm
having trouble getting fully engaged
because the bigger picture is that you
won. The bigger picture is you won. You
don't get to even have this conversation
unless you've taken care of the
important stuff and then you get to
fight about, you know, this. But I'll
give you my overall opinion of who's an
anti-semite
and who's just uh America first
because it's terribly important that you
know my opinion on this completely
unimportant topic.
And it goes like this. If I were Jewish,
I would think half the people I named
are anti-Semitic.
That's it. That's my opinion. If I were
Jewish,
then I would have a different filter on
life, right?
Of course, you'd have a different
filter. You'd be a little more sensitive
to, "Wait a minute, you didn't say
directly,
but you sure walked up to that line."
And then if somebody walks up to that
line more than once,
then I change my view and I go, "You
went up to that line a lot of times. Why
are you so interested in walking up to
that line? Why why is it important to
you that you going to talk about this
topic like I am right now so much? Huh?
A little suspicious.
So, in just the way if you're a meal
loving person and Democrats say
something, you automatically think
they're lying, right? And vice versa.
When I when I got cancelled, uh, pretty
much all of black America, at least the
ones that lean left, thought, "My god,
that's so racist." Do you know how many
MAGA people thought it was racist as
opposed to a common statement about
protecting yourself? Almost none. So,
was it racist or not racist? It depended
who you were. It just depended who you
were. So, let me say clearly, if I were
if I were Jewish, I'd be pretty worried
about some of these cats. I don't need
to name names. You know what I'm talking
about. But if you're not Jewish, you
would hear exactly the same messages if
you're paying attention, if you cared,
and you'd say to yourself, "Huh, that's
close to being anti-semitic, but really,
it's just free speech and it's just
America first." Which one of those is
true?
Well, if I've taught you anything, it's
two movies on one screen. Truth, I don't
know if we have access to that.
But prediction, we do.
So, I would say that if you can make a
prediction that holds based on your view
of these people and their opinions, then
you might have something. You might have
something. But if it doesn't predict,
as in, you know, let I'll give you an
example. If the next thing that Tucker
Carlson does is
unambiguously,
I don't know, pro-Jewish or pro-American
or pro- Israel, would you say to
yourself, "Oh, okay, that looks
different." Now, I don't think he's
going to do that necessarily, but I'm
saying that if you can't predict, you
have to check your, you know, check your
worldview. I've got more on that coming.
Well, uh, Speaker Johnson said he's
trying to reframe the government
shutdown as, uh,
uh, as as the Democrats want to cut 50
billion from the rural hospital fund.
So, that basically they're ransoming the
government.
Um, here's what I think about this whole
who's to blame for closing the uh or not
opening. Even CNN is going hard at the
Democrats. Have you noticed that the the
CNN hosts are doing an absolutely
completely respectable job and I I have
to I just have to call that out. So,
everybody from Jake Tapper to um I don't
know the other hosts, they say directly
to their Democrat friends, how is this
the Republicans's fault if you can just
vote it to be open?
Which is, you know, the ideal question.
How is it their fault if you could open
it anytime you want? Then they're like,
"Whoa, whoa, well, well, so we're only a
leverage, but we're trying to feed the
They don't want to feed the Okay, but
everybody would get everything if you
just voted yes. Oh, yeah. The word
salad.
So, I don't think there's any question
um that the Democrats are acting like
turds. That they're acting like such
turds. I think it's even embarrassing to
CNN. like actually embarrassing, you
know, because they're they feel
associated. I would guess I would guess
if you work for CNN, people assume
you're a Democrat and then they see even
CNN saying, "Okay, this is just
This is total All
you have to do is vote and you can have
everything you wanted for seven weeks
and then negotiate the rest." Exactly
what the Republicans are telling you.
So, but I noticed that when Trump was on
60 Minutes and the topic came up, did
you notice that before the question was
finished, he said it was the Democrat's
fault.
Did anybody [clears throat] catch that?
So, it was Norah O'Donnell in 60 Minutes
and she starts to ceue up the question.
Before she was done asking the question,
he goes, "This is the Democrat's fault.
Now, what have I taught you about the
primary tool of persuasion?"
The primary tool of persuasion is
repetition.
Whoever repeats the most wins. So he
makes sure that he said it before she
even he even finished the question. Now
that's good technique because that gets
in your head first. He needed to get
that in the head first so that she would
respond to him instead of he was
responding to her. Do you see how clever
that was?
That was super clever that he that he uh
talked over her and gave her the answer
before she asked the question. If she
had been able to ask the question, it
would have been framed as why do you rep
why won't you Republicans open up the
government, but because he front ran her
he front he front ran her while she was
still talking all the way to it's it's
the Democrat's fault that he framed it
before she got to it. Now, you don't
sometimes you don't notice the little
things that he does. They're just
perfect that you would have to be so
experienced in public life to know that
getting there before she finished the
sentence was going to give you an
advantage. I mean, it's just brilliant
persuasion wise. This is what I noticed
in him, you know, on day one of his
running in 2015. I was like, wow, he's
different. [laughter] He he seems to
understand things like other people
don't understand them. This this would
be one. Now,
um,
apparently
the, uh, te did you know the Texas Texas
Texas Governor Abbott said that he's
going to, [laughter]
this can't possibly be true, but he says
that if any New Yorkers try to flee New
York after Mammy's win, they'll be
slapped with 100% tariff. [laughter]
That couldn't be true, could it? How how
would you even do that?
[snorts] You're going to slap a million
people a tariff on a million people who
came from New York. Okay. The Daily Mail
is reporting that Stefan Leapor. All
right. I'm going to put that in the
category of Well, I doubt it.
Uh
let's see what else we got going on
here.
There's a claim from whistleblower. I
saw this on Breaking 911, which is on X,
uh, that the BBC completely doctorred
some Trump quotes to make it look like
he had uh, you know, sort of organized
the January 6 quote insurrection, as
they would call it. Uh, but so I I saw a
video on it and uh,
so I'll wait for more credibility on
this story, but what it looked like is
the worst edit I've ever seen. meaning
totally illegal. You know, I'm not
talking about, you remember when CBS did
their little edit of uh uh of uh what's
her name? Um I've already forgotten her,
Kla Harris. I believe she was vice
president. Yeah. So when when 60 Minutes
did their edit of her, I actually
semi-defended her and them but by saying
that it's not unusual for a big media
thing to edit for clarity.
And it wasn't too far off from clarity,
but it was enough that they, you know,
settled in a court and they didn't admit
any wrongdoing, but they needed to
settle. Um,
so that so I don't mind editing for
clarity, but whatever the BBC is accused
of, according to at least one video I
saw, was not clarity. It was literally
just changing what he said to what they
wanted him to say because they could
piece two unrelated sentences together
that were 54 minutes apart or seconds or
something, but they were pretty far
apart.
So, if this is true, the BBC is going to
owe Trump a lot of money. So, wait for
if you if you're looking for whether
this is credible. Uh, I'd look for the
lawsuit [laughter]
if the lawsuit drops today.
Yes, the BBC edited him.
Um Rasmusen poll according to Newsmax
says that the majority of of uh voters
52% they want anybody who used the auto
pen under Biden and they did it without
proper authorization wants them
prosecuted. So only if they used it
without authorization which seems
reasonable but wouldn't everybody agree
with that? It's hard to imagine there's
anybody who disagrees with the question,
if they use the autopen inappropriately,
should they be punished? Yes. Yeah. If
they use it inappropriately, of course.
Anyway, uh there's always a new Bill
Maher quote. He was in his club random
talking to somebody I didn't care about.
And uh what he said was uh this is just
a pure compliment to Trump. It's one of
the best compliments I've ever seen
Trump get and it's coming from Bill
Maher.
Now to his credit once Bill met Trump in
person. He did drop all of his uh
criticisms about his crazy personality
because that wasn't wasn't demonstrated
at all in person. But he still
maintained, you know, a strong
preference for the other side. Still
thinks that Trump was tried to do an
insurrection on January 6, which is
Bill's personal tenpole hoax. He can't
get past that hoax. But uh
so he has complimented Trump
just for being willing to talk to the
other side and getting some stuff done
like the border, but never this much.
This is a new level of compliment and I
don't know if it means anything. I don't
expect Bill Maher to become a Republican
too far. But look at the look at the
evolution of his thinking
from these little compliments to now
this one. So he said a club random quote
about Trump. He didn't play the silly
game that the other presidents do like
well we have to be even Steven. He's
talking about the Middle East now. He
says who knows who is right. the people
who treasure life are the people who
treasure death, Bill says rhetorically.
And then he goes, uh, he said, "No, I'm
with Israel. Let's see how this works
out. I'm with Western values. I think
democracy is better than theocracy."
And so then Bill closes with the the
keeper. He goes, "The Jews love him more
than any president ever, and the Arabs
do, too. That's quite a hat-tick. You
got to give it up for that one.
Yeah, I got to give it up for that one.
Who else could make the Jews and the
Arabs in the Middle East both think he
was the best president? I mean, maybe
Hamas has a problem, but not Saudi
Arabia.
Is that the Is that one of the best
compliments you've ever heard of any
politician of any time? That that's got
to be right at the top of the the best
thing you could ever say about a
president that he made the Jews and the
Arabs in the Middle East think he was
the best president.
And I I think he did that. That's
actually real. I think he actually did
that. I'd never thought of it that way.
[snorts] So here's what I mean by the
evolution of Bill's thinking.
He's clearly now embraced that Trump is
not crazy.
And and by this I would say he's clearly
embraced that Trump brings tools to the
game that other people just didn't have.
They just didn't have those tools. Now,
he still he [clears throat] still
prefers other policies. Perfectly
reasonable thing.
But uh this is one hell of an evolution
uh into the light because he's 100%
right about this. Right? This lefty's
100% right. And if I can get him to
break the tenpole [clears throat] hoax
about somehow all those Republicans
thought they could take over the country
by wandering around in one building
without weapons, which is what he
believes. [laughter]
If we can make that tenpole hoax go
away, it's going to look really
different. His world will look really
different.
Anyway, so remember I told you that if
your worldview does not predict,
you should look at it again, right? So,
Bill Maher is now squarely moved into a
worldview that will predict because now
that he understands that Trump just has
powers that other pe other politicians
just don't have, they just can't do some
things like, you know, maybe get the
hostages back, maybe only him, like uh
solve eight military conflicts in 8
months or whatever it was. Maybe that's
only him. I mean, there's close the
border. Maybe he's the only one who
could be enough of a bastard and take
enough of the heat that he could
actually close the border.
Um, I've told you before that if you
were to summarize why it was that I
supported Trump from earlier days,
here's my reasoning. I don't know if
I've ever said this explicitly, but when
I looked at him, I said, uh, we've never
seen that toolbox before. He could solve
problems that a president can't solve. A
normal president, you know, a modern
president might. But, uh, it was just
obvious to me from almost day one that
he was a solver with a set of tools that
was unlike anything we'd ever seen. And
every now and then, you don't want a
normie president. You You can't have a
normal president throughout all time
because they won't get it done. There'll
always be these little pockets of things
such as the border that that they act
like they can't solve. Sometimes you
need to bring in the the big wizard to
solve the things that nobody can solve.
Trump is taking on all the hardest
problems, like the really hard ones,
like the super hard problems, and he's
just checking them off. Check, check,
check. Middle East peace, check, check.
I mean, it's crazy. So, when I watch him
when I watch him solve the unsolvable,
I say that's that's it. That's the
thing. That's the reason I support him.
Is it because he says uh insults to
people? I I kind of enjoy that. But no,
that's not why I support him. Yeah, I
don't support him because the insults.
So,
when I say that if your world worldview
predicts it might be accurate. So, I'm
gonna I'm gonna give you Do you remember
a prediction I made? I made a prediction
that Trump will always take the
strongest position on every policy, even
if he knows that the strongest position
could never get done. Maybe because it's
too hard, too expensive, Democrats hate
it too much, unconstitutional, the
courts will stop it. And I told you that
he'll always take the strongest position
and that in the long run that's a
winning strategy. No matter how many
times he gets shot down from being able
to do the strongest thing,
it's still smart to say the strongest
thing. And here's the best example. And
that 60 Minutes interview with uh um
with O'Donnell,
uh he was asked, "Do you think do you
think all these anecdotal situations
with ICE
allegedly doing rough tactics with
individuals?" She goes, "Do you think,
you know, I forget the exact question,
but uh do you think it went too far?"
Now when she Nora uh so when Norah asked
that it was about individual cases which
she mentioned you know this case this
case this case she goes do you think it
went too far ICE
what do you think Trump said
what would my prediction be
my prediction would be if he always
takes the strongest stance that he's not
only going to say it didn't go too far
but that it should go farther and that's
what he did [laughter]
[gasps] But he changed the context and
then CBS of course and the pundits will
pretend he didn't. But he changed the
context away from these individual cases
which nobody could really defend because
you don't know what happened really. Uh
he he changed it to the question of
immigration.
So he was saying we haven't done enough
for immigration
but she was asking about these specific
cases. So he found a way to make it yes,
we should even do more. It was it was
the way to do it. It was exactly right
from a persuasion point of view. Again,
only Trump. Don't you think that a
normal politician would have said
something like, "Oh, we we need to look
into those cases. Those specific cases
sound very bad. We better look into
those right away." Thank you very much
for bringing that up to my attention.
Nope. Trump says, "No, we shouldn't go
harder." But he changes it to, you know,
the general topic, not to the
individuals.
What about uh what about Trump saying
that he wants to resume nuclear
detonation testing, which by the way, um
Secretary Wright says that's not what
we're talking about. According to
Secretary Wright, uh we're talking about
testing the non-critical explosions. So
all all of the process up to but not
including the actual nuclear bang. So
there is some question whether Trump
ever meant
that they would test the bang or whether
he meant we would do what other
countries do which is test everything
that goes up to the bang but stops
there.
Now he also said that China and Russia
have been testing with actual
detonations for years. Have they? I
don't know. [clears throat] It would be
top secret if somebody knew that. But he
he teased it like our our intel people
know that China and Russia have been,
you know, continuously testing up to
now. I don't know that that's true.
But what would be the strongest thing,
remember, we're talking about
prediction. What would be the strongest
thing that Trump could say in this
domain?
the strongest thing he could say is
we're going to test we're going to test
net detonations. Now, it doesn't have to
be true
because it's also part of a negotiation
which he's queuing up. So, he would he
would like both Russia and China to
think, oh, there's something that we
need to get them to stop doing. And then
he can he's invented an asset. So, he's
invented an asset as he always does
before a big negotiation. And the asset
is, hey, we're going to do this blast
testing of nuclear. You surely don't
want us to be doing this, so why don't
we negotiate way negotiate all of our
nuclear dangers at the same time? So, it
makes sense that he would go for the
strongest position right before
negotiation. But do you see how well my
my prediction holds? If you simply said,
what's the domain?
what's the what's the strongest thing a
president could say and then you
predicted that he would say that you'd
be right most of the time. So I believe
that that
my theory about him always taking the
strongest position
seems like reality because it predicts
and it's it predicted twice yesterday. I
mean it worked twice yesterday. That's a
pretty good prediction.
So there was a question also on 60
minutes and other places. Trump was
asked about his pardon for the one of
the founders of Binance I guess crypto
site and he said weirdly that he doesn't
even know who that is but maybe he was
trying to say he doesn't know him
personally or hasn't hasn't done
business with him personally but he
obviously u at one point I don't think
he said it yesterday but maybe or Sunday
but maybe he did uh he thought that the
reason for pardoning him was that
somebody told him it was
that Biden was going after him. So, it's
because Biden was going after him.
Oh, I gota I got to run in one minute.
All right, we got one minute here.
Um,
so yeah, there's a question about the
two sons are in crypto, but I don't
think anybody said anything illegal is
happening.
Uh,
forget about that one.
Trump is reportedly planning to send US
troops and intelligence officers into
Mexico to combat the drug cartels. What
would you call that? That would be the
strongest position.
Again, predictable three times in a row.
All right. Uh the rest is some
scientific stuff about bacteria that
eats battery waste. That's cool.
Atlantis may have been discovered.
That's cool. And Ukraine may or may not
have been responsible for some Hungarian
explosions. And that's all I've got for
today. And I'm not going to have time to
talk to locals. I got to run. Going to
get some medical treatment. I'll give
you an update tomorrow. Thanks for
joining. Bye for now.
Oh, it doesn't work. Can't end my
stream.