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Sept. 15, 2024 - Real Coffe - Scott Adams
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Episode 2597 CWSA 09/14/24
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Taking up the levels that nobody can even comprehend with their tiny, shiny human brains.
All you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tankard, shells, a Stein, a canteen, sugar, flax, a vessel of any kind.
They're eating the dogs.
They're eating the cats.
They're eating the dogs.
Just had to add that.
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Well, there's a new study about coffee.
Are you surprised?
There's always a new study about coffee.
And this time, according to the Indian Express, that coffee is a repository of antioxidants.
And the more you drink, the better your skin looks.
That's right.
Those who drink black coffee don't crack.
No wrinkles.
That's why I look so smooth.
Don't I?
Totally smooth.
It's all the coffee.
I used to be full of wrinkles, but I drank coffee until they went away.
No, that's not true.
That's not true.
I rubbed it on my body until it went away.
By the way, it reminds me of my favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger story.
When he was first coming up and everybody could see that he was the star and he started winning things and he'd go to the gym and the young guys would be like, what's your secret?
What's your secret?
And people asked him so often that he started to carry a little bottle of oil with him.
And it was just motor oil.
It literally was motor oil.
And he'd say, he'd take it out of his bag and he'd say, If you rub this on your muscles and don't wash it off, you know, leave it on there for 24 hours.
It'll make you stronger, make your muscles grow or something.
And so he would get these young guys in the gym to take a bottle of motor oil, rub it all over their body and leave it on for a day.
And then later he'd tell them it was a joke.
That's one of the best stories.
I hope it's true.
I think Arnold tells that story.
Well, anyway, OnlyFans brought in $1.7 billion more than the entire cumulative NBA salaries.
So that, so the creators on, this is just not the owner, but the creators brought in more money than the NBA, at least the players.
Now, uh, there's some one creator who brought in $26 million a year or 65 million a year or something.
So some of the money is just crazy.
But here's my prediction.
Before the Internet, you were lucky to find anybody in your little town who was willing to give you a baby and spend time with you.
So you marry that person and you'd be happy with it.
You didn't even have to be in love.
It just had to make sense.
So, you know, that potentially could be a stable situation, even if it's not ideal.
But once you have the Internet and everybody can find everybody, no matter where they're hiding, It kind of makes sense that we would turn into harems.
And we have.
So, for example, if you're an OnlyFans creator and you're a woman, you have thousands of men who are sexually satisfying themselves to one person, the same person.
That's a harem.
And they don't have better options.
Because the people around them are saying, are you over six feet tall?
Do you make six figures?
And they're all sleeping with what?
Somebody who also has a harem.
So the top, you know, I don't know, 5% or 1% of men have unlimited options because all the women want the top one or 5%.
So they basically have virtual harems that are changing over all the time, but the women too.
They're just going on OnlyFans and they create their own harems.
What about the ones who are not doing any of those things?
Well, they're either completely sexless or they're going from one incomplete bad situation to another.
But basically the world has just figured out that I think men have gotten to the point Maybe 80% of them, that they'd rather beat off to a woman that they see on a digital thing every now and then, because it feels better than the relationship they could get in the real world.
Now, that's just an observation.
I'm not even saying, you know, how it should be different or, you know, what people should be doing with their life.
I don't have any advice.
I'm just saying that we've evolved into a, essentially, a harem civilization.
But at least it's fair.
Men and women have their own harems, just differently.
Well, here's some news from AI.
Google's DeepMind taught a robot how to tie a shoelace.
Now, if you don't think that sounds impressive, consider that whenever you see a robot doing something, it seems to be using one hand at a time.
It doesn't do a lot of things where both hands are coordinated, but imagine tying a shoelace.
If your robot can tie a shoelace, That's pretty close to doing everything you're going to need it to do.
So it can do that and clean the kitchen.
And so it did about 98% of the things I wanted it to do.
But the two-hand coordination thing is the one that impressed me.
So if you can get your robot to do two-handed coordination, the time between now and the time that you will have a full robot tennis partner, literally a tennis partner, A robot who can serve and hit the ball back is probably five years.
It might have more to do with, you know, battery life and a little mechanical stuff to make sure the robot doesn't, you know, doesn't fall over, but they're pretty much there.
So if it's coordinated with two hands, it has vision.
I'm pretty sure that a robot can play tennis, like legitimately play tennis, you know, like hit every ball back.
In less than five years, but it could be a year.
We might be one year away from a tennis playing robot.
I'm going to get one.
Well, we've been hearing for years that geothermal energy could be the big thing, but it never is.
So geothermal is basically a two or three mile hole in the ground, where if you go deep enough, the earth is super hot.
The waters down there is super hot.
And you can use that super hot water to create energy or warm your house or whatever.
But it's very expensive to drill a two-mile deep hole or three miles.
However, it turns out that at least one company, Fervo Energy, is a Texas startup or upstart.
They call it an upstart.
I don't know.
Maybe it's been around a while.
But they're using fracking.
So the analogy was made that in the oil business, when the idea of fracking first came up, everybody said that'll never work.
You crazy bastard with your fracking, get out of here.
But apparently there was one entrepreneur who made fracking practical.
And then once it was practical, everybody had to run and get some.
But the same thing's happening with geothermal.
There's a fracking-like technology that's being employed that if it works, Could be a complete game changer for thermal energy.
And unlike oil, where you have to be in a certain place to get it, you could put a hole in the ground in a lot more places.
So a hole in the ground as your energy source, it's just the cost of the hole.
And they may be on the verge of having this enormous economic breakthrough in building a hole and using fracking to In some way.
Anyway, I saw the announcement that a company called Bots Inc.
What do they do?
They make bots, I guess.
Blockchain and robotics technology.
So they're robotics and blockchain.
I don't know what the blockchain has to do with the robotics.
But they announced that they're going to use Grok as their president.
So rather than having a human president, they're going to use AI.
And they chose Grok.
Now, do you know what the hidden secret story behind this story is?
I'm pretty sure, I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is the company that at one time announced that they were going to build their robots or their AI in the robot.
It was going to be based on my personality.
Like literally they named me, uh, because I had said publicly anybody who wants to You know, use my personality for AI.
It'd be a good idea.
And you have full rights.
So they had actually planned to do that.
And they were going to make their, their robot, basically my personality.
Now, after I got canceled, I'm pretty sure they changed those plans because they don't talk about that anymore.
And I don't blame them.
But they do say that their robot's going to be sort of a casual, funny robot.
And I say to myself, I wonder if the only thing they changed about my personality was my voice.
Because all you'd have to do is change my voice and nobody would recognize it as anybody's specific personality, but it would still have one.
So I have some curiosity.
And by the way, it's completely authorized if they want to use my personality.
And put it in the robot and not give me credit in any way?
Totally okay.
I'm okay with that.
So we'll see.
There's a study written about in SciPost.
It says, at least with mice, if the grandfather mouse works sound, and then there's two generations of mouses, mice that follow, that the grandchild mouse We'll have better cognitive abilities because the grandfather worked out.
So the more exercise the grandfather mouse got as each generation was born, the grandchild generation was cognitively superior in much the way that the grandparent became by exercising, because exercise is good for your cognition, I guess.
Now, suppose I got replicated in humans.
Where you would know that if you exercised efficiently, your grandkids would be smarter and more successful.
It's not confirmed with humans, but if it worked in mice, there's a good chance.
There's a good chance.
And to me, if it's true, It raises the possibility that one of the weirdest things I've ever thought about evolution might be true.
This is just for fun, by the way, so you don't need to jump on me for my lack of scientific understanding.
This is just for fun.
I'm not trying to change anybody's minds.
But I've always said to myself, if evolution is indeed the explanation of how we got here, and if we're a simulation, it's not, but if it is, I've never quite bought the fact that you could get all the way here with nothing but the survivors.
You know, the survivors have qualities that get passed on.
It didn't seem like enough.
I mean, obviously, it's part of it.
It would certainly be part of it, might be most of it.
But I always had this assumption that what you want the most when you're alive Might get passed down to your children and actually might express itself eventually genetically.
So if you can do something as in your lifetime that changes the permanent, I don't know if it's genetic or chemical structure of a grandchild, that would suggest that what you wanted creates evolution.
In other words, your mental state would be the driver of your evolution.
Because you'd want to be healthy, so you would exercise.
And that wanting for yourself to be healthy gets passed down to the next generation.
So in a sense, you could say, well, it's the exercise that caused the grandkids to be smarter.
But you don't exercise unless you decided to.
And you said, I would be a better creature, whether I'm a better mouse or a better human, if I exercised.
So your desire to exercise could get translated into your actions, which get translated into changing the... I don't know if it's genetic or just chemical structure of the grandkids.
So it's just kind of interesting that maybe you can will your way into evolution in some special cases.
Just for fun that was.
All right.
United Airlines is going to add Starlink Wi-Fi to all of its planes, maybe at the end of 2025 when they have it done.
Have any of you had this experience where you take a long flight over water where they don't typically have Wi-Fi and you think to yourself, I'm in the air in this device and I'm in the oldest technology possible.
The plane's 30 years old and it doesn't have Wi-Fi because it's over the ocean.
It just feels so barbaric.
And if I were going to, um, if I were going to buy stock in a state, I would buy stock in Hawaii.
Cause if you fly from the West coast to Hawaii, you spend five or six hours without wifi, which is crazy in today's modern world.
But if you gave me wifi, I wouldn't even mind the five hour flight.
I just get some work done and I'd entertain myself and it'd be great.
So my, let's say my enthusiasm to visit Hawaii would go up 30% by taking the pain of the flight away?
That's a pretty big change in my mind.
Maybe you too.
I have a theory about the pyramids.
You want to hear it?
I watch the show on YouTube.
I don't know if any of it's true, but apparently there's some pottery from the ancient Egyptians that could not have been made by ancient Egyptians.
Because the ancient Egyptian tools were softer than the pots.
And the pots were made to machine precision way beyond anything that any ancient could have made.
And some of the thinking is that the ancient Egyptians didn't make them.
That they just still had them.
Some of the pottery was made with rocks that are so hard that they would last basically forever.
And so they just had them from some previous civilization.
It was just left over from another civilization that knew how to make them.
And apparently the pottery from Egypt got less advanced every year, which would suggest, and you've probably heard lots of speculation about this, that the pyramids were not built by the Egyptians.
Just like the pottery Might not have been built by the Egyptians, but rather the Egyptians may have inherited, you know, this leftover stuff from some advanced civilization.
So now I'm going to give you my theory about why the pyramids exist.
And I don't know if you've heard of this one.
It's just speculation.
It's not based on much.
So here's my hypothesis.
I put myself in the place of the early civilization.
So let's say you were an advanced civilization.
But you were isolated, and the rest of the world were barbarians.
And you also knew that your time was limited.
Could be that, I don't know, maybe you had some disease that was killing you all.
Maybe the barbarians were outnumbering you, and even with your advanced technology, you knew you couldn't hold them off, you were going to get destroyed.
So you reached a point in your civilization where you knew you couldn't last.
But you wanted to tell future generations forever that you had once been great.
So you build a structure that can't be missed, will never be buried in sand, Cannot be destroyed by floods or water, and will be there in 10,000 years.
So you build a pyramid.
The most sturdy structure you could ever imagine building, because the wind can't blow it over, hurricanes can't hurt it.
Probably water, if the Sphinx was there before the... Hold on.
Weird.
I have a video queued up that just started for no reason.
Anyway, so my theory is that the ancient advanced civilization wanted to not be forgotten, so they built something that would outlast them.
I'll just throw that in the mix.
It's shutting down its headquarters in San Francisco, which used to be the headquarters of Twitter.
And, uh, Elon Musk, not so happy with California and he's done.
So that building is now, or at least the people, the business part of it is gone.
It's out of San Francisco.
Um, Brazil, do you remember it froze the assets of Starlink?
Cause it was mad at X.
Those two companies are not related, except that Musk owns both.
They were trying to punish Axe, and to do that they froze the assets of Starlink in Brazil.
But they released the assets of Starlink after they stole 3.3 million dollars, which was owed by the other company.
So they fined Axe for what they claimed the information related stuff is.
But they took the money from a completely different company.
Brazil?
What the hell is wrong with you?
I mean, you've become, I don't even know what Brazil is anymore.
Is it just some weird third world dictator bullshit country?
It's not even trying to be, you know, to play fair with the rest of the world.
So, uh, improve your game, Brazil.
Um, Trump.
He was in Nevada and he told them of his idea to make federal land available to build Hollywood-like studios in Nevada to put the real Hollywood in California out of business.
Now, I love that idea.
I don't know if I'd put odds on it happening, but if he did make land available, he would make federal land available for that, as well as his idea of building futuristic cities, which I still think is among the best ideas of all time.
It's not just one of the best Trump ideas, it's just one of the best ideas that you've ever seen in a politics.
So I could not be more positive about that.
But moving the movie studios makes so much sense for the Republicans, because maybe if you move it to Nevada, you're not going to get a bunch of woke people making garbage.
Maybe they make something that people want to see.
Meanwhile, Oracle, which believe it or not, still has business in California.
It got permits to build three small nuclear reactors to power its gigantic AI data center.
So, he wants to build the kind that the Navy uses.
The Navy already knows how to make them and put them in submarines.
The thinking is it would be a lot cheaper if you were not constrained to put them in a submarine.
Because if you put it in a submarine, they make it small and probably has to have submarine specific capabilities.
I don't know what that would be.
But if you don't have those limitations of putting it on a submarine, You might be able to build these fairly easily if you can get California to approve it.
They have the permits, but I think that's short of all the approval they would need to complete this.
But imagine if that works.
Because we, we think of nuclear energy in terms of, there's going to be this big project and they're going to build it for your city.
And I don't know who owns it, but basically it's a utility kind of situation.
Then you have Larry Ellison, who needs way more electricity than California can give him.
So he's like, well, how about I just build my own nuclear power plant?
Who does that?
Billionaires.
You know, here's the thing.
I've said this before, but the billionaires have a value in the United States that nobody else would ever satisfy.
Meaning that Elon Musk can simply use his own money to do something that the government can't get done, but the citizens want done.
Larry Ellison is using his company's money to build nuclear power plants, which, if this works, pretty much would open up that entire market to every other big company that wanted to build their own power plant.
He just has to make it work.
And it's existing technology, so there's not much chance it won't work.
If you can make it economical, that's the big question.
But it'll work because it's existing technology.
So yes, I'm very in favor of the billionaires moving civilization forward when they have some special niche in this country.
You know, Matt Walsh has his new movie out.
It's not getting, you know, mainstream advertisements.
That's cool.
Am I racist?
Now, I've only seen clips from it and it looks hilarious.
And it looks, it looks like it's a good addition to the, uh, let's say the conversation.
I hate to use that, but it's a good addition to the media.
Like it or not, it's just needed.
It needed to be done as is place.
Robin DiAngelo, the author who wrote, I believe it was White Fragility, which was a, you know, sort of a landmark work in terms of creating wokeness.
She issued a statement denouncing the film, and Matt Walsh wanted us to know she denounced it.
And she claims, according to Matt, that the movie is, quote, designed to humiliate and discredit anti-racist educators and activists.
And as Walsh says, She couldn't be more correct in that assessment.
Thank you, Robin.
Yeah, that's the point of it.
The point of it is to humiliate and discredit the people that he thinks should be humiliated and should be discredited.
And I agree.
I agree.
Got some good publicity there from Robin.
Well, through the vote, the Voting Integrity Organization checker, Um, has announced that they somehow have figured out how to monitor over 25 million, just hold that number in your head, 25 million ineligible names on voter rolls across the country.
Let me say that again.
According to True the Vote, who apparently has done a lot of work, they claimed that there are 25 million people across all the states that are not eligible to vote.
You know, they died or they moved or they're illegal, not residents or something.
And they say that they'll engage law enforcement and litigation partners if any of them vote.
So basically putting out the threat that if anyone's tempted to vote these illegal names, I guess I would include somebody pretending to be them and filling out a ballot for an illegal name.
But they're going to go after them.
We're gonna get litigation partners and go after them.
Now, I like putting that thread out there.
I don't know if they can really detect what they need to detect and make something of it.
But, actually, how would they detect that?
How would the outside organization know who voted by name and address?
Is that knowable?
Or would you have to, I don't know, do some kind of FOIA or lawsuit to get the information?
Is the information even available?
I have lots of questions.
I like the general thrust of this, that somebody is monitoring, true to the vote, is monitoring the ineligible names and that they're going to get talked about it.
I don't know that they can know for sure if somebody voted from one of those lists.
I don't know how you would know that.
So that's the problem.
If we could easily know that an ineligible person voted, wouldn't that allow us to stop them?
I've got a feeling maybe it's not so easy to know if they voted.
Meanwhile, there's somebody I'd never heard of, but I guess he's a travel writer and television host.
Uh, named Rick Steves.
And somehow he made news, despite me not knowing who he is, by endorsing Harris.
And, uh, in a little video he released, he explained why he endorses her.
Uh, and he argued that the world doesn't need the, quote, chaos of Trump in the White House.
The chaos.
He's opposed to the chaos of Trump.
Where's the chaos come from, do you think?
Where's all that chaos come from?
100% of it is coming from the Democrats.
So the Democrats create the chaos, and then they say, well, you can't vote for this guy because of all the chaos that they created.
What chaos has Trump created all on his own?
I can't think of anything.
Because his supporters don't find any of it chaotic.
Some of it's, you know, let's say, less than perfect.
But why would you call that chaos?
Every administration does things that some of us think are less than perfect.
So, anyway, that chaos thing is sort of a red flag for brainwashing, in my opinion.
I don't believe you could get to a reasonable opinion that chaos is your big problem.
Like, you wouldn't put it at the top of the list.
Well, you know, when I look at I look at climate change, and I look at the national deficit, and I look at immigration and the open borders.
When I look at Ukraine and the trouble in the Middle East, the thing that I think of first is, oh, that chaos!
That's not a real opinion.
Nobody sits down and says, all right, well, let's look at the risks and rewards of each of these situations.
And yep, yep, when I've looked at all the risks and rewards, I'm against the chaos.
Chaos isn't even a real thing.
Not only is it not a real thing, it's not even coming from Trump.
It's literally coming from his team.
So if he wants less chaos, why doesn't he tell his own team to shut the heck up?
Somebody said a 12-year-old is watching today, so I pulled back.
All right.
How would you like some optimism?
Is anybody up for some optimism?
I got a little for you.
It might be really good.
You might like it.
You ready?
Get ready!
Optimism incoming!
There is something happening that I think you can feel.
There has been an explosion of creativity around this, they're eating the dogs theme, you know, from the something that Trump said at the debate.
And you've probably seen it.
And you've probably seen multiple videos of people putting it to music and dancing to it.
And it's viral all over the place.
And I've never seen such a surge of creativity that has had such a high level.
And you could add to that the stuff coming out of Nicole Shanahan's operation.
She's released yet another amazing video.
And I say amazing because you just look at the thinking and the quality and the note they're trying to hit and just the production.
And it's amazing.
It's called her video is who really are the MAGGA people?
And it's this fictional story of someone with a British sounding accent, I think British, who does like a, it's like a fake documentary, you know, it's for fun, but they show ordinary Magga people just hanging out with their kids and going to work in their trucks and stuff.
And they all just look like good people.
And the, the point of it is that, you know, this person who came to examine these dangerous Magga people found out, oh wait, They're all really nice to hang out with.
Why are they all kind to me?
Why do they have this code of ethics and everything seems like if you just left them alone, we'd all be fine.
So it was brilliant.
You have to see it.
My description of it doesn't really sell it.
But so that's brilliant.
And it's, you know, one of several she's done that are all brilliant.
Whoever she's got working on these.
And then a whole avalanche of these Trump saying, save the dogs, you know, they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats.
And the level of creativity that got unleashed and the specific way it was employed makes me feel this.
Think of Trump as an energy monster, somebody who generates tremendous amount of energy.
But think about this.
He's been storing that energy like a battery, not in himself.
He's been storing it in his base and his supporters.
He's created this immense amount of energy, some of it he uses himself, and some of it he uses his tens of millions of supporters, like a storage system.
It's like a battery.
Now, if you watched the debate as I did, I originally scored it as Harris' victory.
Because it looked like a tie, which in this case would look like a victory for her.
So I said publicly, she won the debate.
And it felt to the world, a lot of us, like even if you thought he won the debate, it wasn't by much and it wasn't as good as you liked, and it just felt like I hate to say it.
He didn't have the goods.
Like, he was just a little short that night.
Now, I don't think it's necessarily his fault, although there were a few things I think he could have done better.
I think it had to do with the setup, and, you know, Harris is actually good when she's doing memorized pieces.
And that's pretty much the whole story.
You know, the ABC host plus the fact that she could just do memorized pieces.
But!
Many people who support Trump felt like he didn't get across the line, that there was something he needed to accomplish and it was very important and he didn't get there.
So what'd they do?
Did they change their mind?
Say, I'm not going to vote?
No, they didn't.
Did they say, I'm going to vote for Harris?
She had a good Kim.
She had a good debate.
No, they didn't.
But they had all this energy that he's been storing in them for so long.
And all of a sudden, it all came out.
And here's what it looks like to me.
I don't know if you can feel it yet, but I can feel it.
His base has decided that they don't want Trump to win.
They've decided they don't want him to win.
They've decided they're going to make him win.
It's a decision now.
Everything changes when it's a decision.
We're out of the preference stage.
Now tens of millions of people just said, if you can't do it, we're going to drag you.
We're going to drag him across the finish line.
And you can feel that now.
This is about Trump, of course.
But the energy that he's been storing for years in his base just got unleashed in the weirdest way with this, you know, all the memes about the cats and the dogs, but they're all just wonderful.
And I'm going to publicly, I did this on X yesterday, but I'm going to change my scoring of the debate.
Because the debate, when you score it as it happens and immediately after, you're using short-term memory.
Short-term memory is what did this person say?
How did you answer this question?
Did you avoid this question?
Did you say a lie?
You know, was it?
Did we fact-check you?
That's all short-term memory.
Short-term memory doesn't move anything.
It is valid to score a debate based on your short-term memory.
So if you were doing, let's say, a college debate, you wouldn't wait two weeks.
You would score it right then.
Using your short-term memory.
But, if there's something I learned from my friend and memory expert Carmen Simon, Dr. Carmen Simon, in her books, is that your long-term memory is the one you want to influence.
The long-term memory is a signal that you actually changed.
Something changed.
If you see something that makes you feel a certain way in the short-term and you don't even remember it two weeks later, nothing happened.
It was like it didn't happen.
So I ask you now, the debate's been over for a little while, not very long.
What do you remember about it?
You remember that Trump, who doesn't even own a dog or a cat, tried to defend yours, your dog and your cat, who you love more than people in some cases.
Now, the memes that pair him with the cute little animals could not be better Better persuasion.
Because it takes the biggest complaint about him, that he's a selfish, mean, cares-about-only-himself, dictator bastard.
Well, if you see enough pictures of him saving your pets, not his own, he doesn't have any.
And by the way, the memes aren't real.
It's just pictures of him, you know, with two lovable pets under each arm, you know, running from Haitian gangs and stuff.
You cannot be unaffected by that.
And it's not a surprise that it's becoming a huge meme.
The memes probably are breaking through on TikTok and some other places to get to Democrats.
Association is one of the major rules of persuasion.
If you associate with, I'm seeing now pictures going by the memes of him with dogs and cats, and they're all adorable.
I love every one of them.
But association is one of the main levers of persuasion.
And without Trump doing it intentionally, his base, with all the energy that he put there over the years, decided they were going to use that energy to pair him with cats and dogs.
Lovable, beautiful, wonderful cats and dogs.
And I can't even imagine a better persuasive wave than that association.
Now here's the opposite type.
Today, the news is going after Laura Loomer for having been on Trump's jet when he went to the debate.
Now what they're trying to do is they're saying, we're going to associate you with Laura Loomer so that whatever bad feelings we can make about her, we can extend that to you.
Oh, why were you hanging out with this person who said these things?
Now we don't, none of us have to agree with anything that Laura Loomer has said, but I love the fact that Trump is a pirate ship, and if you can help him, and you're all on board, he doesn't have to agree with everything you've ever done in your life.
But can you help the country?
That's where Laura Loomer's at.
She's definitely working as hard as she can to help the campaign win.
We don't agree with everything she's ever said.
I don't believe that Trump agrees with everything that J.D.
Vance has ever said.
I don't believe he agrees with everything that Vivek has ever said, although they're pretty close.
I don't believe he agrees with everything that Kennedy said.
Not everything.
But can you work with him?
Yes, this is the America I want.
If you're telling me that you don't like that Trump is okay with Laura Loomer being on his pirate ship, My response to you is, do you not understand what a pirate ship is?
Do you think the pirates are judging each other?
No, no, they have a mission.
The pirates are trying to get something done.
And that's the mission.
So if you're going to worry about the associations, you go worry about that.
The pirates are going to load the cannons and get something done.
So I've always loved that about Trump.
That he can say, if you're on my team, then bring the things that are good, and we'll work with that.
If there's stuff I don't like, well, that's sort of your issue.
It's not for me to solve it.
Why can't you live in a country where everybody's different, and sometimes you like it, and sometimes you don't?
That's the America I want to live in.
I don't care that my neighbor... I mean, take my neighborhood.
Do you think they'll agree with me on politics?
No!
Do I love my neighbors?
They're awesome.
I got the greatest neighbors.
I'm so lucky.
That's true.
I just have amazing neighbors.
But none of us are worried about who agrees with anybody about politics.
We don't talk about it.
It's just not a thing.
It's just not important.
So that's what I love about the pirate ship.
But the more important thing is that this huge wave of creative energy has been unleashed.
And in my opinion, the base has decided that they're going to make him win.
If he falters, we're going to pick him up.
If he trips, we're going to make up the distance.
If he needs to be dragged, we're going to drag him.
And I think that's a decision now.
And it feels different than just wanting it.
Well, have you seen the Debunk website?
So I've decided that, just to finish up on that.
So my current view is that Trump completely won the debate.
Because somehow, in his Trump way, he found that one issue that you can't get out of your head, and it has some value to him.
And two weeks later, I don't remember a thing that Harris said.
Nothing.
I don't remember a thing.
I just remember the dog thing.
Now, if you said, but Scott, remember this thing?
Yes.
Yes.
If you reminded me of the thing, I would say, Oh, okay.
I do remember that.
And you could do that 50 times and say, but you remember, she said this, I'd say, Oh, okay.
Yeah, she did.
But that's back of mind.
Back of mind.
Isn't the good stuff front of mind, long-term front of mind and long-term.
That's the gold standard of persuasion.
And he's hit the gold standard.
And it's just a huge victory.
I could not have been more wrong when I scored it as a tie that goes to Harris, because I was using short-term memory.
And none of that matters.
None of it matters.
Anyway.
We got lots more fun here.
Have you seen the video where somebody used AI to alter Kamala Harris's face at one of her rallies?
So it's the audio, the actual audio of her saying the actual thing she really said at the rally.
And the only thing they did was change her face to look like she'd been using meth for 30 years in a row.
You know how meth people look with the mouth and the teeth and the distorted faces?
And you see it, and it's the funniest thing in the world.
And the thing that's funny about it is that the meth face perfectly matches the messages.
So you're not really laughing because the face is funny, although it's hilarious.
You're laughing because the funny face and looking like a drunken meth addict perfectly matches the audio of her talking to her bass.
Now you have to see that one.
It's in my XFeed.
You've got to see this one.
It will just make you cry with laughter.
It's so perfect.
And again, that's another example of the creative burst that's coming out.
Anyway, remember I told you about the Trump hoax overload strategy that the Democrats are using?
And somebody asked, just in the pre-show, somebody said, do you think that Kamala knows that the fine people hoax is a hoax?
Of course he does.
Yeah, I guarantee it.
There's no chance they don't know that they're doing massive hoaxes one after another.
No, it's a strategy.
It's a very clear strategy to overload the right so that they're just talking about the hoaxes.
Because, remember association?
If I say, no, I didn't eat a hobo, Well, you're automatically going to pair me with the idea of eating a hobo, even if the point was I didn't eat the hobo.
Because that's another persuasion rule, right?
Your negatives don't register, just the image does.
So, anyway.
So the Trump hoax overload strategy that Kamala Harris's campaign is using is really, really good.
So if you're just looking at, does it work?
And is it brilliant?
It works.
And it's brilliant.
I'm not even going to shade that.
It works and it's brilliant.
So this is the first time I can remember, and I'm not an expert in politics, I've never seen two campaigns that were this good.
And when I say good, I don't mean honest.
I mean, they know their job, they know persuasion, they know what buttons to push.
The Harris campaign is freaking good, with what they have to work with.
If you look with what they have to work with and the fact that they're a tie, they're just so good.
But as I've said before, I think Trump's campaign advisors are extraordinary.
And I think that his campaign has been extraordinary as well.
So I wouldn't put one of them ahead of the other.
They're both A plus.
I've never seen this before.
You know, you've got, we only have one candidate who's worth a damn.
But the campaign's really good.
That's my persuasion rating.
Anyway, so I suggested that the antidote to the hoax overload strategy would be a website of debunks so that somebody like Trump and any of his supporters, if challenged with any of these hoaxes, could say, not that the hoax is fake, because that doesn't buy you anything, You say, let me teach you how these hoaxes are created.
Go to the site americandebunk.com.
So it's American with the N on America.
American debunk.
That's all you have to remember.
And I'm going to ask you all this.
Memorize that.
Say, say it a few times in your head.
American debunk, americandebunk.com.
I want you to be able to produce that in a conversation and say, you know, you're going to be amazed when you find out how they did that hoax.
And then the Democrat you're talking to will say, that's no hoax.
And you say, do me a favor, go to americandebunk.com and you'll see what Republicans are seeing.
You don't have to believe it.
I won't try to change your mind.
But I want you to see what the Republicans see that you don't get to see.
It's very short.
They're very, very small segments of what the hoax is.
I call it a hoax.
You think it's real.
But it also shows you how the hoax was created.
It's the how it was created that's the magic sauce.
I'll say this as many times as I need to.
It is not anything to debunk a hoax.
Buys you nothing.
Nothing.
You have to show how it was done.
That's the thinking past the sale.
If you can do that, you can change minds.
Now, somebody said to me, nobody's going to change their vote because the find people hoax and finding out about it.
Yes, they will.
We have multiple public examples where people on X, notable people, you know, people whose names you've heard in public.
Say, you know, when I saw that that Fine People hoax was a hoax, it just opened up, it was like the key to open the door to all the fake news, and then I'd switch sides.
So yes, that will change folks.
So, americandebunk.com.
I don't know who's behind it, by the way, but I did see some of my influence in the writing, so it's somebody Could be somebody watching right now.
I don't know.
But if you want to take credit for it, I would love to give it to you.
Mark Cuban asked a question.
Oh, you know what?
I want to show you.
There's a new interview with Kamala Harris.
And I first saw it when investor Bill Ackman was pointing to it on X. And his comment made me so curious.
He just pointed to the video of the interview, and it's with some local news station.
And I'm paraphrasing, but he basically said, just watch this and make up your own mind who you're voting for.
And I thought, why would you not want to put your opinion on it?
And then I watched it.
Oh.
My.
God.
I'm going to play it for you if my technology works here.
So my plan is that if I push this button, you're going to see me in the corner and then you're going to see her.
And then if I push this, I can play it.
And I'm going to turn on my sound.
Madam Vice President.
Pleasure to meet you.
Thank you for your time today.
Our audience appreciates your time.
Of course.
As you know, we're sitting here in a state and arguably in front of an audience that 54 days from now could decide the outcome of this presidential election.
Can you hear it more than I do?
People want to know more about you and about your specific plans.
At the debate the other night, you talked about creating an opportunity economy.
Talk about bringing down prices and making life more affordable for people.
What are one or two specific things you have in mind?
What's the specifics?
Well, I'll start with this.
I grew up a middle class kid.
My mother raised my sister and me.
She worked very hard.
She was able to finally save up enough money to buy our first house when I was a teenager.
I grew up in a community of hardworking people, you know, construction workers and nurses and teachers.
And I try to explain to some people who may not have had the same experience, you know, if a lot of people will relate to this.
You know, I grew up in a neighborhood of folks who were very proud of their lawn.
You know?
And I was raised to believe and to know that all people deserve dignity.
And that we as Americans have a beautiful character.
You know, we have ambitions and aspirations and dreams.
But not everyone necessarily has access to the resources that can help them fuel those dreams and ambitions.
So when I talk about building an opportunity economy, it is very much with the mind of investing in the ambitions and aspirations and the incredible work ethic of the American people and creating opportunity for people, for example, to start a small business.
My mother, you know, worked long hours and our neighbor helped raise us.
We used to call her, I still call her, our second mother.
She was a small business owner.
I love our small business owners.
I learned who they are from my childhood.
And she was a community leader.
She hired locally.
She mentored.
Our small businesses are so much a part of the fabric of our communities, not to mention, really, I think the backbone of America's economy.
So my opportunity, economy, Plan includes giving startups a $50,000 tax deduction to start their small business.
It used to be $5,000.
Nobody can start a small business with $5,000.
But investing in people's innovative ideas and giving them the ability to go for it.
Opportunity economy, what assault weapons do to the human body.
I think Congress, former Congress member Liz Channing, All right.
You can watch it if you can stand it.
But she is really, really bad at talking.
She is really, really, really, really bad at talking.
I've never seen anything like this, honestly.
When I watched it the first time, I was trying to figure out, is she drunk?
Does she have a mental problem?
Because it might be that.
I mean, it looks like she's working through some kind of mental distress.
Now, she didn't look drunk, but could there be some other pill that you take that makes your face exaggerate like that?
Like, why does her face get so exaggerated?
I feel like, I feel like somebody who knew drugs more than I do, you know, the good stuff, Might be able to identify that.
Is that like a cocaine face?
Is there a specific drug that would make you gesticulate and move and your face would be more animated?
Because I don't spend time around cocaine people, so I'm just guessing.
Would that be a possibility?
Because whatever's happening here, I don't spend any time listening to what she's saying, and I spend the whole time thinking, what's wrong with her?
You know what I mean?
Do you have the same feeling?
Like all of my curiosity is, what's wrong with her?
Like, why?
Why is she acting that way?
Never seen anything like it.
Remember when I told you that I'll give you some optimism today?
They either have to hide her until election day, which will be a pretty big tell that she can't do the job, or they're going to let her do this again and her side is going to see what they're looking at.
I don't know how she could possibly win.
It's hard for me to imagine that she could possibly win if they see her in public answering any questions at all.
And I saw, let's see, Mike Cernovich suggested that instead of a debate, Harris should have a Spaces event, and it could be handled with hosts like David Sachs, and he suggested Mark Cuban.
So imagine David Sachs, pro-Trump, and Mark Cuban, pro-Harris, being the moderators.
And then Mike Cernovich suggested that they pick some third person randomly, which I'd love that to be me.
No, I wouldn't want to do it.
But that's a good idea.
But speaking of Mark Cuban, Mark Cuban has been, I don't want to say trolling, but he's been asking provocative questions of Trump supporters so that he can argue with them in public or embarrass them in public.
I don't know exactly what he's thinking.
So I'll warn you not to make the mistake that I almost made right there.
If you're trying to guess What Mark Cuban is thinking, or what his motivation is, I don't know that that's anything you can do.
Because he's a complicated, smart guy who knows what his exact motivation is, other than getting Harris elected, of course.
But in any given exchange, if you're trying to guess, is he being serious or is he trolling us?
Does he really need to know the answer to this?
It doesn't matter.
Because we'll never know what his inner thoughts are, but we're dealing with a world in which it exists.
So, he asked this question, which I thought was actually a really good question.
He said on X, for all supporters of the Republican nominee, what specifically will Trump do to lower grocery and other prices?
And he says, I'm curious.
Now he states that he's curious.
That sounds actually true to me.
I think he actually is curious.
So I took a shot at answering that question.
And let me tell you what I said.
So here's the answer to how would Trump lower prices?
Number one, fewer government regulations, which should increase supply, which should increase or decrease prices in the long run.
I said, but, there's a but to this, if Trump works with Kennedy, RFK Jr., and he uncovers these bad food practices, you might find that food prices would go up in the short run if something gets banned.
So for example, if there's a fertile, this is just an example, I don't know if any of this is true, but if there's some fertilizer, I'll just pick, you know, I'm making up a fictional example.
And we decided it's bad for the health of the people who eat the food that was fertilized with it.
If it gets banned, they might be able to make less food or they might pay more for the fertilizer.
So you can see the costs going up in the short run.
So to be fair, there's at least one thing that Trump plans to do.
That's a direct, probably upward pressure on prices.
However, if you were to get the unhealthy stuff out of the food supply, suddenly your healthcare costs go down.
And maybe by a lot.
So it would look more like an investment if it did make food more expensive in the short run, which would be a problem.
Definitely be a problem.
But it could have the far, far bigger economic benefit of reducing all of our chronic illnesses.
That would be the goal of it.
Next, if Elon Musk helps Trump reduce the government spending, that should reduce inflation and that should make your costs not rise.
I like to give Trump credit for what you might call his salesmanship.
Or his BS, uh, because it drives investment.
I've described this before, but if investors are confident, then they invest and that creates good things.
If they're not confident, they don't.
Trump has that salesperson, you know, go, go, go capitalism feeling that makes people think, huh, it doesn't look like he's going to give me more regulations.
It doesn't make, it doesn't look like he's going to make anything worse.
Um, I'm going to go invest some money.
This is looking good.
So his salesmanship story on the economy is way better than Harris's, which is, you know, Marxist.
At least it has the scent of Marxism on it, which is way less inspiring.
I said that Trump's tax plans compared to Harris should give companies some room more room to lower prices.
If taxes go up on corporations, they have less margin, less room to lower the prices.
Trump would at least not raise their prices.
He might not lower them.
Trump might not lower anybody's taxes, but Harris would raise them for sure.
So that would make food more expensive and everything.
Trump is more likely to approve, I'm going to say larger energy projects.
I do think the Biden administration has done better than the Republicans blame them for in energy.
They haven't been terrible.
They've been good on nuclear.
Could be better.
And they've been reasonably good on drilling.
Could be a lot better.
You know, I mean, we haven't drilled in ANWR.
There's a pipeline question.
I'm sure there's a permit issue.
So it does seem to me that Trump could probably And approving larger energy projects, which lower everybody's cost for everything, because it's energy.
I said that Trump would waste less money on climate and wars, and that goes to lowering inflation too.
I said that Trump is more suited to protect our global supply chains.
So, you know, a lot of things are more expensive, because the ships don't want to go anywhere near the hooties.
In Yemen, because they're using their missiles on the ships.
So if somebody could say, hey, hoodies, I got a deal for you.
If you shoot one more missile, we're going to get rid of every single fucking one of you.
Sorry, I couldn't go the whole day without swearing.
And whether or not that's true, even the hoodies are going to say, oh, well, that looks serious.
Because he might actually do it.
You just don't know.
So he's far scarier, and that's got to be good if you're trying to scare people like the Hooties from shooting your ships.
So I think he's more suited to protect the global supply chains.
But in summary, he's just better for the economy in general, and that should help your prices.
So that was my answer.
People are still saying, hey, how about a debate of some kind?
There's not going to be any new debate.
And here's the simple reason why.
Trump would be crazy to agree to another debate on a network that is not in his favor.
So the only one I think he would ever agree to would be, you know, Fox News or Newsmax or Tucker Carlson or something like that.
And there's no way that Harris is going to agree to that.
So you can stop even thinking about another debate.
I mean, Trump said he's not going to have one.
But really, that means he would have one if it were the right hosts.
I think if it were the right hosts on Fox, he'd do it.
Let me put it this way.
If Fox News said, our hosts will be Dana Perino and Greg Gottfeld, would Trump do a debate?
Probably.
Probably yes.
Would Harris do it?
Not a chance.
So there is no way that those two Venn diagrams are ever going to intersect.
So debate is done.
There will not be a debate.
I guarantee it.
You got all you're going to get.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, brings me to the close of my prepared remarks.
I think it was one of the best shows you've ever seen.
Probably getting better every minute.
And I'm going to say a few words to the local subscribers, because they're special.
And thanks to all the people on X and YouTube and Rumble.
It's always a pleasure to see you.
I'll see you again tomorrow morning, same place.
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