Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
We got room. Lots of room today. But people will be coming in because they need to hear what I have to say. Because it's better than what other people have to say. As far as I know. All right. Let's see how your stocks are doing. Wait. Today's Monday, right? It's funny that the company named Snap is probably moving on the news about Snap. That has nothing to do with the company. Whoa.
Stocks are up. Hello. Hello. What? Rumble's up 14%, but still from low. And then the Tesla's up too. Not bad. Last week was devastating, so not that good either. All right, everybody. Did you find a seat? Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.
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I think it makes everything better. If only I could lift my arm. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens now. I'll give you a second one. I see you weren't ready. You weren't ready. Now you are. All right, let me check my situation here. Do we have any... Any kind of news about coffee being healthy for you? Oh, it turns out that coffee is really good for you, according to Dr. Marcus.
That your odds of surviving a... Hard problem if you've got a cup of coffee in you is way better. Not because of that one cup of coffee. But people have coffee. Coffee, coffee. Yeah, I said coffee. I grew up in upstate New York. I can say coffee. Can we agree on that? All right. So despite my maximum coffee influence, I had a really good nap this morning.
I didn't think I was going to be awake for the show. But I made it. Pain level is currently manageable. It's been pretty bad lately, but maybe it's a little bit less today. That would be good. Well, apparently Microsoft, according to Tech Explorer, Microsoft's going to look into what they call super intelligence. after the OpenAI deal.
So their current deal, I guess, allows them to explore with ChatGPT, so this would be Microsoft plus ChatGPT, allows them to explore sort of ordinary AI, as if there's anything ordinary about it. But if they want to go all the way to super intelligence, super intelligence, then it looks like they would make another deal, and that superintelligence would look different.
That would be the good stuff. Do you know what that means? It means they don't know how to do superintelligence, and that whatever they're doing now is the best they know how to do at the moment. Does that mean they'll ever be able to do superintelligence? Probably they will, eventually, but I don't know if it's going to happen on Tuesday or anything. All right, so...
That would be when robots can do everything we can do. Superintelligence. Well, Trump is pardoned. Or is it called a pardon? I always get the pardons and the clemencies and all that mixed up. But basically he pardoned a whole bunch of his cronies before they've been charged with anything. So they haven't been charged. This would be a situation where it's just getting ahead of it. Just in case.
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of Trump's recent pardons?
Would you be worried that his opinion would change my opinion? Would you? You think that might happen? No, there's not a chance. But might my opinion change his opinion? Totally. I'm not saying it would, but if you're going to guess who is likely to change the other person's opinion, it would be the one who's trained to do it, although he's very good at it. He's very good at it as well.
So I think the reason I can watch Candace and Nick and Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro and they're all arguing and it sounds like somebody's anti-Semitic and somebody's not, you know, it sounds like terrible stuff. But I'm just trained to not treat it that way. It's just training. And I think a lot of conservatives are just trained the same way. It's like, you know, I'm not saying it's a nothing.
I'm just saying that the conservatives can handle it better. They can handle the friction better. All right. Let me go way back to where I started because then I'm going to maybe have some more examples of this. So as you know, the government's going to reopen maybe on Monday. I'm not sure yet.
So eight Democrats crossed over and voted to reopen, which if that holds, they'll reopen today sometime. It might take a day or so. I don't know. There's only eight of them. And, of course, you should see. Have you seen how angry the Democrats are at the ones who voted for this? Oh, my goodness. They're very angry. They're calling their own team traitors and everything.
And if that's how you want to play it, Your own team is traitors if they do something that's, first of all, perfectly predictable. Perfectly predictable. And then it happens. All right. Even on MSNBC, one of the hosts said, it seems like the president was kind of getting what he wanted. Yeah. That's what that looks like. That's the president kind of getting what he wanted.
And he still hasn't given up on getting rid of the filibuster. I thought he wanted to get rid of the filibuster. It was just sort of opportunistic. He might want to do it anyway. But even though he guesses government reopened, he's still like, well, while we're at it, maybe we'll kill that filibuster while we're at it.
Anyway, Fetterman is one of the ones who famously cross-sized to vote for opening the government.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of cognitive dissonance in political discourse?
Good for Fetterman.
Yeah.
As long as he doesn't want any future in the Democrat Party, it's good for him. He basically eliminated himself from higher office as a Democrat, I think. Because the Democrats believe that fighting is just doing annoying things while people are watching, I guess. I guess that's what they think fighting Donald Trump is. All right.
So did it work that Trump threatened the filibuster or threatened to end it? Did that work? There's no way to know if anybody changed the vote just because of the filibuster, but it might've, it might've worked a little bit. People might've thought, well, if we give him this, maybe he won't also try to get the filibuster to which I said, have you met Trump? Have you heard about him?
No, he's not going to give up on the filibuster just because he got something else. He'll try to get everything he can get. Whatever's the most aggressive stance. Of course. Anyway, the other thing that's funny, going back to my theme, is that Democrats will have no idea what's happening today because they don't have a worldview that incorporates what they're witnessing.
They just don't have any worldview that explains this. Like, why did all my heroes say, there's no way, no way we're going to cave, and then they caved? Was it ever important? Don't you think it leaves the Democrats with some big questions about their own side? Yeah, some big questions. So the Democrats are going to look at their side as a bunch of wimpy losers.
There's going to be more pressure on Schumer to get the heck out of that job because he's an embarrassment. Bernie Sanders pointed out that the Republicans ruined health care. He ruined health care. Correct me if I'm wrong, but one of the things I'm watching is that every time the Democrats ruin something, don't they blame Republicans every time the Democrats ruin something?
Because who ruined climate change? That wasn't Republicans. How about the border? Not Republicans. How about inflation? Wasn't Republicans. So there seems to be a clear pattern here, which is the Democrats do these things which have gigantic downsides, and then they sell as hard as they can that the problem was from the Republicans.
That's their whole game, is doing dumb shit and trying to blame it on the other side. That's it. That's all they have. And they use it a lot. Anyway, and apparently there's somebody who admitted that that the real play for Schumer and the Democrats was to get crime out of the news, because I guess the Democrats thought they were losing if they were talking about crime, because nobody liked crime.
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Chapter 4: How does the concept of persuasion play a role in politics?
And I left out the best ones. So did I mention Mike Benz? Democrats don't have a Mike Benz. It's like having a superhero on your side. How about Charlie Kirk when he was doing the debates? Charlie Kirk doing debates, they didn't have that, did they? Now, I know that Stephen Crowder did some debates too, but he was more team play. That was kind of a different vibe. Joe Rogan, Glenn Beck.
They all bring people on who can explain all kinds of things. That's good. I would also say that Gutfeld's a good explainer, Maggie Hemingway, Victor Davis Hanson. Do you see the pattern yet? I was trying to make the point without having the right list in front of me. But, yeah, these are all the smartest people in the game, and they're teaching you how to think, not just what to agree with.
Pretty strong stuff. Anyway, Newsom. is going after Trump. Trump's having a good day, but they're going to have to find something bad to say about him. So Newsom said, Donald Trump said he would make us wealthier and healthier, but we're poorer and sicker. And I don't want to see this sickness extend to ending our republic and our democracy. Okay. All right, whatever.
Meanwhile, the Gateway Pundit is reporting that there's a... a gang called the Latin Kings operating in the U.S., I guess, who must be in Chicago, and they put out a hit on some of the ICE people. So that better not happen. Do you think that's going to turn into a thing, that the criminals are going to start putting hits on the ICE people? I wouldn't be totally surprised if it happens.
But, boy, is it going to get savage if they do. If they kill one ICE agent in something that looks like a hit, Trump's just going to go full Viking on them. And they have to know that. I mean, they have to know. That's the end of their operation if they do that. At least they can struggle along a little bit if they don't do that. But we're still going to take them out one way or another.
So in China, apparently they have some version of the LSATs, the test you take to become a lawyer or the test you take to see if you qualify for law school. And apparently some Chinese prep companies stole the test. They stole the test that was selling the results. So do you trust your lawyer now? Now that you know, your lawyer could have bought the test results in China.
I'm not sure if he could, but there's some allegation there. Anyway, the chipmaking industry is mad because apparently somebody in the administration is raising the idea, just as a proposal, that the U.S. taxpayers would take some equity in some of the chipmaking business. So the semiconductor business would sort of say, okay, you have a little ownership of that.
Do you think that's going to work? I don't. I think there'll be too much pushback on that. That will not happen. All right. Then Mayor Brandon Johnson. He wants to tell us how bad things are in Chicago because of Trump. He says whether it's the unconstitutional acts that are being carried out by the Trump administration or the fact that food and medicine has been cut off. Has anybody died yet?
I'm pretty sure nobody has starved. When was the last time somebody starved to death in the United States? sort of never. I mean, it's not true. Not never. But I don't think they're going to starve to death this year. But I hope the post-millennials write about that. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, let me go back. Let me circle back to my main point today and see if it's stuck. Okay.
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