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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization?
It's a little chilly today, so I got my comfort blanket on. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm pretty sure you've never had a better time.
But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a stein, a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
Chapter 2: What is the significance of the simultaneous sip?
Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and you're lucky enough to have it now. Go. So good. You know, I've been meaning to mention this. I keep forgetting. Mike Johnson... has the best command voice you're ever going to hear.
And what you should listen to is not just that he's got a nice sounding voice, but that when he's talking with any authority, he always goes down on the end of the sentence. Because if you go up at the end of your sentence, if you go up at the end of your sentence, you sound like a valley girl, but also you sound like you're not so sure. We should start a war. and put all of our money into it.
That just sounds like you have no confidence. But Mike Johnson, when he talks, he's got the voice thing down. He always ends lower than he starts. We're going to settle the budget. We're going to get it done by Tuesday. We're going to make sure that the country is free. That is really, really good persuasion. Just ending lower. That's all you have to do.
Well, egg prices are up 15% and inflation hit 3% this month. That's probably what's bugging the stock market. You know, I never thought that eggs would be like a luxury good, but I was in the grocery store the other day and I saw I was going to get some eggs. There was so much activity in the egg section. People were talking and it looked like there was going to be a fight.
There were plenty of eggs, but it looked like there was a whole thing happening. And I just looked at it and said, nope, I'm not going to be in the middle of whatever that is because it looks like the eggs are going to start flying. So I didn't get any eggs. But I'm going to save up some money and maybe get some eggs sometime. Okay.
Well, as you know, prisoner Mark Fogel was released from Russia, thanks to the good work of the Trump administration and their emissaries. Now, the big question is, why was that so easy? What did Trump offer in return? Now, I don't know the answer to the question, and I don't know if he offered anything in return. But let me tell you what I think happened. So this is Pure speculation.
The only thing I'm using as my, let's say, reasoning is that the best persuader would do it this way. So if you assume that Trump is really good at the negotiating thing, this is how he should have done it. And he should do the same thing with the Hamas hostages. And it goes like this. Hostages are not a negotiating point. Hostages are not a negotiating point.
You return them or nothing good will ever happen to you again. It's the opening ticket to have a conversation. It's not part of the negotiation. It's how you get a ticket to the negotiation. You never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever negotiate for a hostage. Now, we always do it, right? We're always trading this for that. And if you have a straight-up trade, well, some negotiation might make sense.
But if a country is just holding somebody and they're just doing it to be dicks to get a little leverage on you, that's when you tell them you have no idea what's going to come down on you if you don't release them. This is first priority, top priority. You do not hold an American, period.
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Chapter 3: What happened with prisoner Mark Fogel's release?
Chapter 4: How does Mike Johnson's communication style affect persuasion?
I've been telling people that we could work with you to end the war. You want to end the war. We want to end the war. But we're not even going to have a conversation with you unless this guy comes home. So if you want me to let you end these, if you want me basically to say that you did a good job negotiating, that we got a good deal, that things are working out in some kind of a respectful way,
The only way you're going to do it is return this guy right now. We're not even going to have a conversation about Ukraine, and you can just keep losing people and losing your treasure. We're going to give them long-term missiles, and you just got to fix this, and you got to do it right away.
Chapter 5: What are the implications of the rising egg prices?
Now, the carrot in that case would be to stay on good terms with Trump when everybody needs to be on good terms with him. and not take the risk that this one prisoner is going to derail everything. So if Trump does what he usually does, he injected some real risk that Putin said, I don't know what the blowback is going to be.
But since we do have a chance to end this war thing, and in a way that maybe he'd be at least a little bit happy, he's not going to blow it over one hostage. So I think... And I don't know. I think Trump got him with nothing in return, which is the way it should have been. That's exactly how it should have been. But we'll see. It could be that there was something traded.
But the country felt pretty good about it, and it made us once again remember that whatever Biden was doing was incompetent or evil or corrupt because it feels almost a little too easy to to do the things that didn't look possible under Biden. We'll see. According to Steve Watson, writing for Modernity, mental health experts are seeing a big increase in Democrat clients.
So a lot of Democrats with mental health problems because of the despair and burnout that they're experiencing over the Trump first hundred days or so, or whatever it's been so far. And Axios has an article saying, talking about that, how people are feeling burned down because they can't keep up with the rapid-fire policies of Trump.
Now, to be fair, I also feel that the pure weight of all the changes, even though I like them, so even though I'm positive about the changes, it is overwhelming. And if you're... I guess I could call it my job in a sense, is to look at the news every day. It's really work. Oh, my God. You know, I love doing the podcast. It's one of my favorite things. So it never feels like work, but it does now.
I feel like I'm on the Doge project because I'm like, oh, my God. I've got to read all the background of this NGO and how it fits into the larger architecture of everything and how everything's connected and who all the players are. And then there'll be like seven more of those stories every day. Every day. So, yeah, it's pretty exhausting.
And I definitely feel it on my own mental health, even though I like everything about it. It is just so overwhelming. So, yeah, if you're a Democrat, you're probably having some tough times right now. Well, you probably saw the video about Trump was in the Oval Office and he was talking to the press. And Musk was there with little X, his young son.
And little X was stealing the show by being like little John John Kennedy and hanging around the Resolute desk and just basically stealing the show. But my take on it was, wow, this is great. It's very transparent. You're seeing the two of them so that you can answer pretty much all questions between the two of them. They were very open.
Musk did most of the talking, I guess, because Doge is the big thing at the moment, so it makes sense. And I thought it was all good, nothing negative. So what do you think MSNBC thought about it? Now that you know MSNBC and CNN are not real news, it's not just that they're fake news. They're just part of the resistance, basically. And they're propaganda networks when it comes to political stuff.
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Chapter 6: What mental health trends are emerging among Democrats?
You need the smartest people in the world sometimes. And this is one of those cases. So watching him just attack it and then be a fast adjustment, be able to quickly say, that didn't work, change it. That didn't work, change it. That didn't work, change it. Oh, I got that thing wrong about the condoms? Good. Keep me honest. Make sure you keep fact-checking.
That's worth more than $2 trillion a year. Because if he can teach that... let's say everything about the boldness of it to the methods he's using, we're going to be studying his methods forever. And one of the methods, of course, is moving fast and overwhelming the resistance, the resistance being the bureaucracy.
So if we learn what he's doing, which is different from maybe what a lot of other people would do in the same situation, But of course, he's got a longer track record of making this kind of stuff work. If he makes this work, the United States will have a new DNA. He's reprogramming our DNA as a country because we're all learning this. We're all learning that the impossible is possible.
Can't go to the moon or can't go to Mars? Yes, we can. Can't build an electric car? Sure, we can. Can't put a device on your head that reads your mind? Well, maybe we can. Can't cut the budget? Get out of the way. See what happens. So number one, he's teaching us that you can do the impossible, but you're going to have to stay up all night.
You're going to have the best team and you're going to have to balls to the wall, 100% commitment, lots of good partners. You can get it done. These are deep, deep learnings that will become part of our personalities without doing anything about it. We're just watching. But he's training us what works and what doesn't in these big, big, big, big situations.
If we learn that, that's worth more than $2 trillion a year. It will put us in a winning position for a generation at least until somebody forgets it. Well, there's also Doge is also looking into the federal employees who seem to have suspiciously high net worths, especially if that happened while they were working for their not so profitable jobs in the government.
Now, the example that people are using, I feel like it might be unfair. because it's focusing on one person in particular, and there could be an explanation, but it is sort of an organizing thing to have somebody specific to talk about with specific numbers. So Samantha Powers, I guess she was head of USAID, and she was allegedly, she wasn't head until she got fired recently,
And I guess her net worth went from $6 million to $30 million, even though she was paid $250,000 a year. And people say, hmm, that's not much time has passed to make all those millions of dollars. So how'd you do that? Well, before we decide that she's committed some crime because she made a lot of money, we should at least consider there are possible ways you can do that.
Number one, what if she inherited it? Did anybody ask if her father was rich and died? Nobody asked that, right? She could have inherited. How would we know? Perhaps she knew somebody working at, I don't know, let's say NVIDIA. And at some point somebody said to her, I got to tell you, this NVIDIA stuff is amazing. You should get in on this last year.
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Chapter 7: What budget cuts are being discussed related to USAID and Doge?
And that explains why Trump is being called domestically a threat to democracy. Do you see it now? So we had these NGOs that were originally set up to battle for democracy against, let's say, the Soviet Union. They might have a different model or against anybody else who was actually not democratic that we wanted to be on our democracy side. So there were external facing things.
And then suddenly this president, President Trump, he's being called a threat to democracy. Have you ever heard that before? Has any prior president ever been called a threat to democracy? Well, probably, you know, here and there, but not like something that all the entities are repeating every single day. You know, threat to democracy, threat to democracy, threat to democracy. That's organized.
And there's no way it's accidental. It allowed these seven well-funded entities to turn their cannons internally at our domestic situation and try to turn Trump into what they're imagining he is, a threat to democracy. So that... is what I mean by the entire corrupt architecture of the country is being revealed. I'm seeing a picture of Bill Kristol going by.
Yes, he was getting some money from an NGO. And everything was just what you thought it was. We didn't know who was involved, but you could feel the coordinated evil. because they all talk the same, you know, MSNBC and CNN and New York Times. And they'd all start using the same words like, hmm, looks like there's a constitutional crisis. Constitutional crisis, constitutional crisis.
But that used to work. Today, I wake up and Elon Musk has a post on X laughing about all the different media using the same term. And there's a whole list of them. Oh, it's a constitutional crisis. Look at the constitutional crisis. Even the MSNBC couldn't get their own legal analysts to call it a constitutional crisis because nobody's defied any of the constitution.
We've done stuff and the court will challenge it. And then the court will decide if we can do it. And if we can't do it, we'll try something else, you know, which might include impeaching a judge, which is also constitutional. It wouldn't, wouldn't work, but, um, So, yeah, there you go. We can now see kind of clearly that Democrats were just feeding off the teat of these NGOs.
It was a way to launder money into their favorite things, keep them in power and enrich them. You know, not every single one, but clearly it was thievery, corruption and pure evil. And we're getting really close to having all the receipts. really close.
Now, when I talked earlier about Mike Cernovich's post and my response, think about all the people who are pro-Trump who are risking their life and their careers right now. Think about it. Mike Benz is one. Mike Benz is the one who taught us this whole NGO architecture and how it all works. And he said on X that he's in physical danger, probably. I think that's true.
I think he's in physical danger. Did he quit? Nope. Is Trump in physical danger? Yes. In fact, I said the other day that there was some kind of event where Trump, Steve Scalise, and Mike Johnson, three top Republicans, were on the stage at the same time. Two of them had been shot by Democrats, or at least somebody who didn't like them. Two out of three shot Democrats. Did Steve Scalise retire?
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Chapter 8: How is Elon Musk redefining government efficiency?
again, without doing any research on this specific case, it's always fake news, has been since the 60s, is really useful because the public doesn't know it's fake news. So they say, what? The Pentagon's charging me a billion dollars for a hammer? We're going to have to go in there and shake things up.
Well, if what you want to do is go in there and shake things up and cut costs, it's really useful because If the public thinks that they are charging a billion dollars for a screw, it's really useful because then you can get the support. Likewise, the same strategy is being used on the cuts for USAID. If you told the real story to the public, okay, public,
The reason that these weird little charities exist is not because somebody really, really cared about the trans events in Uruguay, for example. It's because we were trying to control Uruguay and teaming with the trans community gave us a little bit of capacity building so that we'd have a little more leverage over Uruguay. Now, that's the story that the government can't tell you.
And even Trump can't tell you that. And I don't think Elon Musk is going to say that in a press release because it basically outs our entire intelligence operation. USAID is basically just a front for the CIA. This would be the Mike Benz version of reality. And if you see it as a front for the CIA, the real argument is, do we need the CIA doing this stuff? Now, I think the answer is no.
I think that probably we can get what we want without doing this stuff. And maybe it is going too far and it was too easy to get money for anything. So maybe there's some of this stuff that needs to happen for intelligence reasons and for legitimate protection of the republic.
But probably the best thing is to cut it all and then have whoever needs it make a better argument and then add it back if we need it. That's probably what makes sense. But Notice how complicated that is? Wait, what are you saying? You're saying that USAID is just the CIA? Well, do you have a document that proves that? No. No. Nobody could possibly have a document that proves that.
You can get there by inference. You can get there because somebody told you and you've been around it and you know what it really is. And maybe you've worked in the CIA, so you know exactly what's going on. But there's no document. I don't think Trump and Musk could come up with, oh, here's the memo. Look right here. It says everything we do is for the CIA. No, they can't prove it.
So what are they going to do? So you do the thing like the million dollar hammer. You just tell the public something they can understand. Maybe we shouldn't be spending 50 million dollars on condoms for Mozambique. And then the public says, oh, yeah, I don't know much about this topic. I never heard of USAID before. But yeah, that's a lot of money for condoms. I think I'd rather save that money.
And then you just go down the line. All right, do you want to support trans events in Uruguay? No, no, I don't. Yeah, shut that thing down. Oh, there's more. They're also doing DEI in Slovenia. DEI in Slovenia? Are you kidding me? Get rid of that, get rid of the million-dollar hammers, get rid of it all, close it down. Go Musk. So there is a veneer of bullshit over what we're saying.
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