Episode 1470 Scott Adams - Hidin' Biden's Botched War, China Badness, and Persuasion Fun

well what a mess i am today let's get everything working here i'm seeing a question on the locals platform as i signed on it says if scott is a simplifier why does it why is it so complicated to do this live stream and the answer is it avoids simplification like nothing i've ever seen i'm up to something like 17 steps on a checklist just to turn this on and do you think that i can ever do 17 steps on a checklist the same nope nope so sometimes this is the best you can get but you know if you'd like to make everything better and i think you would what do you need oh well all you need is a copper mug or glass of tango chelsea style canteen jug flask vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine of the day thing makes everything better everything except afghanistan it's called the simultaneous step and it happens now go ah that's so good so so good well let me summarize uh all of the news china sucks that's it that's the whole news now there are details i'll tell you all the ways that china sucks or is dangerous to us but it's all it's all just that china sucks and there are lots of ways to express it let's start first with larry elder running for governor of california and i've been trying out some persuasive slogans that he could use so here are two i tested today somebody not me came up with this it's on some signs in southern california it says we have a state to save so that's one choice for larry elder running for governor in the recall election we have a state to save or make california livable make california livable so we have a state to save 52 percent and make california livable 48.

so people like both of those but we have a state to save got a little bit a little bit more and it's not bad it's not bad somebody says i vote neither well come up with a better one so a b testing is all about uh if you have a better idea let's test it all right i feel as if i need a new category i'm going to call it non-surprising news non-surprising news things which are news but since you knew they were going to happen why are they news really so um keep california live i'm seeing some suggestions here save our state about time for better yeah those are all pretty good actually our golden opportunity free california got some good ideas here um all right so here in non-surprising news the infrastructure bill's in trouble do i is it just the same news every day let me make a prediction for the news any day next week pick a day next week tuesday tuesday next week prediction the infrastructure bill will be in trouble let's just see if i'm right i mean wilder things have happened but uh this time apparently the republicans are going to propose a bunch of amendments that are politically embarrassing for the democrats okay meanwhile joe biden continues to decompose as afghanistan falls apart jake sullivan is reporting that biden didn't think it was quote inevitable that the taliban would take control joe biden didn't think it was inevitable that the taliban would take control is that true you know if if i had seen this report and they had said it about trump i would tell you it wasn't true right i mean if you've watched me long enough you know i'd say i don't think that happened you know unless you unless you hear it with your own ears you know do you think trump would ever say that but do you think do you think biden would actually say that he said it in a video oh so we do have a record of it um i it's on a video from july wow well july of course was a little different i mean things changed quickly but um it's almost unbelievable except that he said it on a video apparently i'm being told if it had not been on the video i don't know if i'd believe it it's so it's so crazy i'll bet there's not one person here who didn't know it i mean it was reported as inevitable wasn't it didn't didn't the news sort of say it was inevitable i mean i don't know anybody who said it wasn't was he really the only person who thought that well here's the other possibility the other possibility is he was lying right remember biden ran for president so he'd be the honest one do you think he was being honest when he said it's not inevitable that the taliban would take over i doubt it because if he knew it was inevitable he couldn't leave so i think he has to i think he had to lie and maybe trump would have too maybe any president would have because the only place the only way to get from here to there was lying i suppose he told the truth the truth would have been we're going to pull out of afghanistan and leave our allies to be slaughtered could he say that yeah you know it's really tragic our allies will be slaughtered the country will go to hell we've wasted 20 years and trillion dollars but i'm going to pull out anyway because it's good for america that was the truth right he just couldn't say it so the whole point of hiring an honest president which is what the democrats believe they were doing well that didn't work out he's obviously i would say this is an obvious lie because i don't believe that joe biden didn't know it was going to be inevitable do you how many of you believe that if you had to choose between those two hypotheses he was lying because it was the only way to get it done just the only way to get it done politically or he actually was the only person in america who didn't know it was inevitable which one of those do you think is true i would go for the lie yeah um but weirdly i don't criticize it isn't that weird i'm not criticizing him for lying you know we hire leaders and we put them in these positions where sometimes they have to lie to give us what we want sometimes we have they have to lie to give us what we're asking for and this was an example they had to lie to us to make us feel okay doing this because it was going to be horrible to our allies okay i call that an acceptable lie cnn has turned on biden and actually used the term botched about the afghanistan withdrawal now i feel like that's something we can all agree on this would be the one time that the country could completely come together this was botched it was botched and i would say the same thing no matter who the president was this is as botched as you can get and i don't know who's to blame but it looks pretty bad apparently biden said ahead of time he wanted to avoid a vietnam-like scene with helicopters taking people off a roof well he did not do that it's worse than that i don't know if you've seen it yet but there's a video ah that's really bad there's a video of a u.s plane taking off from kabul the airport is you know swarming with people who are trying to escape the country and some people held on to the outside of the plane let me say that again some people held on to the outside of the plane and it took off and you could actually see one of the bodies falling i don't know how many there were i could see one clearly they wanted to get out of there so badly they held onto the plane after it took off i mean just think about that that that's a level of desperation that's hard to comprehend i mean you can't even it's hard to wrap your brain around that and that's just so horrible but uh do you remember uh general milly when he was talking about all the wokeness in the military that he likes he likes that wokeness and do you remember what i said about him when he got a little tv time does anybody remember me telling you that general milly looked like the dumbest person in the world he looked like the dumbest person in the world and it i was talking about a different topic i wasn't talking about afghanistan but is this the guy who is responsible for that is he the one responsible for this because it looks like it it looks like the guy who looked like the dumbest person in the world actually was he actually he is as dumb as he looked right i mean i you remember i called that out that he just looked low iq now i don't say that about people i dislike politically right have you ever heard me say that i mean biden's a special case because of his age and stuff but you don't hear me telling saying that the people i disagree with are stupid i i don't do that lots of times they're brilliant aoc for example i think is brilliant i just disagree with her on a lot of stuff but this general milly he just actually did look dumb i mean he just oozed the dumbness and it looks like maybe he's responsible i don't know now we've got a lot of blame to spread around biden of course the you know joint chiefs uh our intelligence people the politicians a lot of blame but i feel like this guy might have most of it well china is already announcing that it wants to work with the taliban and help them develop afghanistan a question you might ask yourself is hmm has the taliban heard about the uyghurs or do they even care you know is the taliban a genuine organization meaning that it's really about their beliefs or is it just another political group that wants power and they're just using their beliefs to get it well they're working with china and china is putting people who believe what they believe in prison camps so they're not operating on principle clearly they're operating on some kind of self-interest model but i'm wondering if this isn't biden's secret plan to destroy china because can somebody give me a history lesson here is it true or just one of these fake news kinds of things when people say that the soviet union fell in part because of afghanistan is that true or is that just bad history somebody give me a give me a quick history lesson on this only true for the army as you're saying but did did afghanistan contribute to the fall of uh soviet union in any significant way i'm seeing some truths but i always wonder if that's like fake news or maybe maybe it was exaggerated how much impact that had how could it not yeah i mean it was expensive so that alone yeah so i'm seeing some no's i'm not i'm not entirely convinced that that was the biggest part of why the soviet union fell but maybe it was part so here's the good news uh china working with the taliban is not going to be easy and of course china is going to need to dominate them because it tries to dominate everything and of course the taliban is going to want to dominate too so how in the world do they get how do they work together how in the world could that work maybe um but it looks like a secret plan to destroy china by letting them work with the taliban now of course as many of you know china's interest is probably further cornering of the rare minerals market how many of you know that the afghanistan is probably about the rare minerals they seem to have a lot of them and china has cornered the market on a lot of the rare mineral minerals that the united states needs so if we want to be a technology power in the future we need those rare minerals and china is going to control them in afghanistan and everywhere else yeah there's a one trillion estimated to be there in in rem whatever that is arya and their minerals are easily available well easily meaning in terms of mining it's easy in terms of bullets flying around not so much so the rare mineral question is a big one now here's a adam dopamine tweeted this today that nasa is studying a an asteroid that also has rare minerals in it so if we can get to the asteroid with all of its minerals not all of them are rare but some of the good ones are that here's here's nasa's estimate of the value of this one asteroid if we could get to it 700 quintillion dollars that's the mineral value of one asteroid 700 quintillion do you understand why billionaires are going to space billionaires are going to space to become quintillionaires that's right probably somebody and it may be the next generation of billionaires i don't know if we can get there in the next generation but at some point some billionaire is going to land a mining expedition on an asteroid and become a quintillionaire a quintillionaire would run the world wouldn't they if you had a quintillion dollars uh and of course that's impossible because you couldn't add that much to the economy without you know everything changing but uh there could be a real rich quintillionaire maybe maybe a trillionaire so that's a one of those uh black swan you don't see it coming could change everything situations but it's not going to help us in the near term so we better figure out how to get some rare earth minerals um biden's approval is at its lowest point i guess according to rasmussen and rasmussen poll but i wonder if it could go lower because i don't think you can do you i don't think there's anything that biden could do that would get him below about what it is you know give or take a point because i feel like the country is so divided that there's a you know every president has a lower limit and they just can't go lower than that because that means you know their best supporters would change and you're really only getting a you know a slice of the independence and that's about it so i don't think his his approval will go lower than it is it's about the low as low as anything you get this is a matt walsh tweet that i thought summed up afghanistan as well as i could have ever hoped to say it but he said it better his tweet he said an afghan army of three hundred thousand which had been equipped and trained by the us for twenty years fell in two days to a gang of medieval terrorists who they outnumbered three to one and then he said we can't indefinitely sustain a country that has absolutely no will to exist in the first place exactly exactly you can't help afghanistan if they don't have the will to fight for their own whatever now apparently they have plenty of will to be taliban whatever the taliban is doing is working now by the way do you know another i haven't seen any reporting on this but are you aware that the the bad guys uh and isis was the famous one for this they would take some kind of drug that would make them fearless in battle it was a some kind of i think it was a narcotic but but they commonly took some kind of drug that made them you know impervious to fear which made them impossible to beat because you couldn't you couldn't make them afraid by killing a lot of them they just keep coming so i think that drug is a big part of the story of why a lot a smaller force could mean a bigger force but yeah why were we in a country that didn't have the will to sustain itself it really didn't it didn't have any interest in being its own country it looked like max abrams had a funny tweet about this he said i think the cdc was supplying biden with intel about kabul is there any large organization public organization that is now that is not thoroughly uh discredited is anybody left what would be a major american organization let's say a public organization that still has any credibility i would say the military still does would you agree our military leaders got some explaining to do especially this week but the the military itself i would say still credible supreme court we don't like the decision sometimes but i would say he's still credible so i think the supreme court and the military are holding the country together that's that's what i think that's what it feels like um well the police yes i would say i think the police are still credible right you know would you agree i mean you could march all you want about individual tragedies that happen they should never have happened but i think the police are still a credible organization you aren't credible if half the country doesn't trust you well who would that refer to um not yet not the teachers unions not intel not the government not congress not the cdc not the world health organization credibility is pretty hard to come by these days speaking of credibility the white house press secretary i saw joel quote uh tweet on this so jen saki is taking her vacation at the same time that biden's on vacation which makes sense or doesn't does it make sense that the spokesperson would be on vacation the same time as the president i guess it could go either way but what could be a worse look than the worst botching of international anything we've ever had and a president who's on vacation that's the worst look now there's some reporting that is jill biden who's the one who kept joe biden from talking in public sooner i wonder if that's true again that's the kind of news i don't believe you know just on the surface but who knows so have you ever felt more leaderless than this isn't this the most leaderless you've ever felt like i don't really think anybody's in charge right now do you i mean literally who's in charge because nobody really believes that biden has full control of anything and when he's on vacation it just sort of raises that question literally who's in charge i don't know who's running the country right now what would stop china from taking over taiwan tomorrow could you imagine a better time to do it now i don't think it's going to happen because i mean that would get pretty pretty bloody pretty fast but if they were looking for an opportunity to do it what's better than this week no i don't think it'll happen and it would be horrible if it did but we put ourselves in a bad situation here with our allies so we do have to worry about that apparently uh speaking of how bad china is i guess they work with uh oh oh so in dubai there's a there's some reporting that there's a black site that china uses to you know capture their dissidents and interrogate them and stuff in other countries so of course china has its own black sites within its country to interrogate people in the worst possible way but apparently they have one in dubai or at least in the country there so that's pretty bad and why is it that any islamic country would deal with china what's up with that why would any islamic country deal with them they are literally trying to erase islam at least within china and anything that they control here's the weirdest story russia and china did joint military exercises did you know that russia and china had any kind of military coordination did you know about that um clueless scott there's never any infighting i understand no um i tell you that there there's nothing that annoys me more than somebody telling me i don't understand something that everybody understands like a a comment that i'll get is scott doesn't understand the rain clouds create rain and i think i think everybody understands that scott doesn't understand that if you run over a squirrel with a car it's going to hurt the squirrel actually i do understand that so whatever it is you think about my opinion probably not because of that so don't tell me what i don't understand especially when they're easy things to understand so russia and china did this joint military exercise which experts say was probably just a complete waste of time because apparently if you're doing joint military exercises if you do a choreographed stuff it's sort of just for politics and show and propaganda so you need what they call the the uh i don't know the free range things where the military people can make decisions and see what the other people do and then maybe you learn something so it wasn't that kind so it wasn't the the useful kind of military exercise it was more for show but why in the world are russia and china coordinating on what on what exactly now there was some some thinking that it was about terrorism but do they really need to coordinate military for terrorism i mean how much terrorism is going to happen in either one of those countries seems seems like they would just handle it with their own militaries no matter what so it's probably just good politics that russia and china because they're neighbors that they work together on as many things as they can figure out to work together it's probably good for both of them but here's my take on all this russia should have been our ally russia should be our ally against china now that's probably too hard for them to do because they're right you know they have a border but we need to find some way that rush is on our side militarily and it's hard for me to believe that there's so many things that putin wants that we don't want that we couldn't find some way that we're both better off because i feel like russia they're deal makers now maybe you can't trust them that's a separate issue right maybe they make a deal and you think they'll break it but they're deal makers and i can't see any scenario in which we're not better better off working with ch with russia instead of against them now china is a different story if we worked with china for the long run they would be trying to dominate us and would be probably be dumb to even try but uh i think russia just has interests that are common with ours or could i mean right now we're spending all our time with these cyber attacks against each other why why it's because we're trying to suppress russia why because we think that they're trying to do bad stuff to us because they are why basically any dispute between russia and the united states is completely about what the other one did yesterday it has nothing to do with our strategic interests i don't think i don't think because i don't see russia wanting to conquer europe right i mean there are some disputes about russian-speaking territories and you know we have to deal with that but the bigger picture i just think we don't have enough not in common so that's just my take on that and then on election fraud let's talk about election fraud as i keep telling you every day that goes by without um every day that goes by without confirmation of any kind of election fraud probably means there's less likelihood we'll ever find it do you agree with that general statement that the longer we go without finding any fraud the less likely it is there would you agree now i know there's some things that they can't look into there's some stuff that can't be audited et cetera but or let me put it a different way because yeah you don't know what you don't know so that's so i guess you could never know that there's something hiding in there because you can't water it at all but certainly they haven't found it yet how many would disagree with the statement we would know by now if the audit found the goods we would know by now even though they haven't officially announced it how many agree with that we would know by now because of a leak if they had the goods almost all of you are disagreeing oh i like this this is fun um i saw probably but almost all of you are disagreeing interesting all right well i i i like that that's fun because then you can see you see how good my predicting is okay so do we have uh can we say that we have opposing predictions so my prediction is that no election fraud has been found massive election fraud has been found yet right so i'm not talking about whether something is found still in the future i'm saying that as of right now my prediction is that nothing will come to the surface that has found that has been found already as of the state anybody anybody want to take the other side of that who would take the other side of that bet so my bet is that nothing has been found this massive fraud that can be proven so far let's see in your comments it will never be enough correct probably right agree not taking that bet to greed i'm seeing a little bit of uh capitulation here have you ever heard that word capitulation in terms of uh the stock market yeah that's what it looks like it looks like capitulation i feel as if the people who were let's say optimistic if you could call it that that the audit would find massive fraud i feel like you're losing your optimism now right now keep in mind this was my prediction yeah you reframed it well yeah i did change the question right um is he reading locals comments or youtube both i can see them both so i was getting more comments on locals agreeing with me there's a timing difference if you do a comment on locals i see it almost immediately if you do a comment on youtube i think there's maybe a 20-second delay or something they have found fraud but they need the routers to prove it somebody says no that would be they haven't found fraud if you still need something to prove it you haven't found it we always had suspicions you know there are plenty of things that look sketchy but if you still need something to prove it you haven't found it that's that's my point now does that mean it's not there let me say again my overall opinion of the election the election is designed to hide fraud the election is designed to hide fraud because you can't audit parts of it with the digital part that's a design um that's a design choice it's not an accident um so if you design something to hide fraud and it's a high value target and lots of people are going to try because it's a high value target the the one thing you can say with certainty is that at some point it will be subject to fraud you just don't know if it happened already the only thing you don't know is if it happened already now that's the mystery we need to solve and it looks like we're not going to solve it at least in terms of not going to find any evidence scott apparently doesn't realize his youtube show has an inherent delay now you may have missed my mocking from just a moment ago in which i said why do people tell me what i don't know scott doesn't know that youtube has an inherent delay yeah i do know that i do know that now you could call it inherent or or any other word but i know that the system has a delay um let's see i'm gonna i'm gonna have to run in a little bit i've got something i gotta do but is there any news that doesn't involve china being bad do you notice that that how much of our news has to do with china a lot right china is either directly or indirectly either by we have to compete with them or something about climate change is changing our energy policy and our fentanyl you know our homeless and fentanyl and deaths is about china the covet is about china the afghanistan is about china it's all about china stop asian hate stop asian hate where did you see asian hate did you imagine that you saw some of that there you know the united states has tons of asian americans all patriots and you know has nothing to do with that right you know one of the things about you might not be american whoever said that yeah that could be a china troll you're right but let me explain america we're not really about that in terms of our you know our uh or let's say our point of view about the outside world um it's not anti-asian the the united states is is a bunch of muts we're just a bunch of stuff thrown together like that's not our deal here it's about the it's about the government the chinese people tremendous people how many chinese american friends you know do you have i got lots right uh family members family members as well so it's definitely not about chinese people chinese people are awesome chinese government well chinese government not so awesome and i think the chinese people would agree with most of that so definitely not about any anti-asian anything we don't do that here this this is not the live stream where you're going to see anti-anything like that okay somebody says same with the iranians love them but cannot stand the ayatollah yeah if you spend and i don't know why you state each of you are in of course but in california you meet tons of iranian americans and what do they mostly have in common they're awesome they're awesome i'm not maybe it's a coincidence but it seems like every time i meet somebody who has some iranian background you know persian if you prefer they're pretty awesome i know it seems like a pattern that i recognize um so it's definitely not about that all right um yeah i'm talking about all right our government is pretty crappy these days you know i wonder do you think our government is actually crappier oh this rapid test device or do you think that we just know it now because i wonder if if anything's ever been better i'm seeing on the locals platform where they can paste pictures into the comments there's a covet 19 rapid test device it looks like chinese lettering on it where's that from i'd like to know where that comes from all right uh okay i don't know what some of these comments are about but i'm going to go get ready to do something else and i'm still working on a uh micro lesson that i'll post on locals about uh managing your ego and embarrassment now i've done this topic before but there does seem there seems to be a hunger for it because in my opinion it's the biggest biggest problem that bothers you is is your ego you just don't know it so i'm gonna do that um fairly soon and by the way the part of the reason that my micro lessons have slowed down as i'm having house construction and it's noisy here most of the day after i finish this so it's just not good for filming during the day or live streaming uh any micro lesson on the imposter syndrome you know i'll work that in there i'll work that into the same topic all right that's all i got for now i'll see you tomorrow thanks

well what a mess i am today

let's get everything working here

i'm seeing a question on the locals

platform as i signed on it says if scott

is a simplifier why does it

why is it so complicated to do this live

stream

and the answer is it avoids

simplification like nothing i've ever

seen i'm up to something like 17 steps

on a checklist just to turn this on

and do you think that i can ever do 17

steps on a checklist the same

nope

nope

so

sometimes this is the best you can get

but you know

if you'd like to make

everything better and i think you would

what do you need oh well all you need is

a copper mug or glass of tango chelsea

style canteen jug flask vessel of any

kind fill it with your favorite liquid i

like coffee

and join me now for the unparalleled

pleasure the dopamine of the day thing

makes everything better

everything except afghanistan

it's called the simultaneous step and it

happens now

go

ah

that's so good

so so good

well let me summarize uh all of the news

china

sucks that's it that's the whole news

now there are details

i'll tell you all the ways that china

sucks or is dangerous to us

but it's all it's all just that china

sucks

and there are lots of ways to express it

let's start first with larry elder

running for governor of california and

i've been trying out some

persuasive

slogans that he could use

so here are two i tested today

somebody not me came up with this it's

on some signs in southern california

it says we have a state to save so

that's one choice for larry elder

running for governor in the recall

election

we have a state to save or make

california livable

make california livable

so we have a state to save 52 percent

and make california livable 48.

so people like both of those but we have

a state to save

got a little bit a little bit more

and it's not bad

it's not bad

somebody says i vote neither

well come up with a better one

so

a b testing is all about uh if you have

a better idea let's test it

all right

i feel as if

i need a new category

i'm going to call it

non-surprising news

non-surprising news

things which are news

but since you knew they were going to

happen

why are they news really

so um

keep california live i'm seeing some

suggestions here

save our state

about time for better yeah those are all

pretty good actually

our golden opportunity free california

got some good ideas here

um

all right

so here in non-surprising news

the infrastructure bill's in trouble

do i is it just the same news every day

let me make a prediction

for the news any day next week pick a

day next week

tuesday

tuesday next week

prediction

the infrastructure bill will be in

trouble

let's just see if i'm right

i mean wilder things have happened

but uh this time apparently the

republicans are going to propose a bunch

of

amendments that are politically

embarrassing for the democrats okay

meanwhile joe biden continues to

decompose as afghanistan falls apart

jake sullivan is reporting that

biden didn't think it was quote

inevitable

that the taliban would take control

joe biden

didn't think it was inevitable

that the taliban would take control

is that true

you know if

if i had seen this report

and

they had said it about trump

i would tell you it wasn't true

right

i mean if you've watched me long enough

you know i'd say i don't think that

happened you know unless you unless you

hear it with your own ears you know do

you think trump would ever say that but

do you think do you think biden would

actually say that

he said it in a video

oh

so we do have a record of it

um i it's on a video from july

wow

well july of course was a little

different i mean things changed quickly

but um

it's almost unbelievable except that he

said it on a video apparently i'm being

told

if it had not been on the video i don't

know if i'd believe it

it's so

it's so crazy

i'll bet there's not one person here

who didn't know it i mean it was

reported as inevitable wasn't it

didn't didn't the news

sort of say it was inevitable i mean i

don't know anybody who said it wasn't

was he really the only person who

thought that

well here's the other possibility the

other possibility is he was lying

right remember biden ran for president

so he'd be the honest one

do you think he was being honest when he

said it's not inevitable that the

taliban would take over

i doubt it

because if he knew it was inevitable

he couldn't leave

so i think he has to

i think he had to lie

and maybe trump would have too

maybe any president would have because

the only place the only way to get from

here to there

was lying

i suppose he told the truth

the truth would have been we're going to

pull out of afghanistan and leave our

allies to be slaughtered

could he say that

yeah you know

it's really tragic our allies will be

slaughtered the country will go to hell

we've wasted 20 years and trillion

dollars

but i'm going to pull out anyway

because it's good for america

that was the truth right

he just couldn't say it

so

the whole point of hiring an honest

president which is what the democrats

believe they were doing well that didn't

work out

he's obviously i would say this is an

obvious lie

because i don't believe

that joe biden

didn't know it was going to be

inevitable do you

how many of you believe that

if you had to choose between those two

hypotheses he was lying because it was

the only way to get it done just the

only way to get it done politically or

he actually was the only person in

america who didn't know it was

inevitable which one of those do you

think is true

i would go for the lie

yeah

um

but weirdly i don't criticize it

isn't that weird

i'm not criticizing him for lying

you know we hire leaders

and we put them in these positions where

sometimes they have to lie to give us

what we want

sometimes we have they have to lie to

give us what we're asking for

and this was an example they had to lie

to us

to make us feel okay doing this because

it was going to be horrible to our

allies

okay i call that an acceptable lie

cnn has turned on biden

and actually used the term botched

about the afghanistan withdrawal

now i feel like that's something we can

all agree on

this would be the one time that the

country could completely come together

this was botched

it was botched and i would say the same

thing no matter who the president was

this is as botched as you can get

and i don't know who's to blame but it

looks pretty bad

apparently biden said ahead of time he

wanted to avoid a vietnam-like scene

with helicopters

taking people off a roof

well he did not do that

it's worse than that

i don't know if you've seen it yet

but there's a video

ah that's really bad

there's a video of a u.s plane taking

off from kabul

the airport is you know swarming with

people who are trying to escape the

country

and some people held on to the outside

of the plane

let me say that again some people held

on to the outside of the plane

and it took off

and you could actually see one of the

bodies falling

i don't know how many there were i could

see one clearly

they wanted to get out of there so badly

they held onto the plane after it took

off i mean just think about that

that that's a level of desperation

that's hard to comprehend

i mean you can't even it's hard to wrap

your brain around that and that's just

so horrible

but uh do you remember uh general milly

when he was talking about all the

wokeness in the military that he likes

he likes that wokeness

and

do you remember what i said about him

when he got a little tv time

does anybody remember me telling you

that general milly looked

like the dumbest person in the world

he looked like the dumbest person in the

world and

it i was talking about a different topic

i wasn't talking about afghanistan but

is this the guy who is responsible for

that

is he the one responsible for this

because it looks like it

it looks like the guy who looked like

the dumbest person in the world actually

was

he actually he is as dumb as he looked

right i mean i you remember i called

that out that he just looked low iq

now i don't say that about people i

dislike politically right

have you ever heard me say that i mean

biden's a special case because of his

age and stuff but you don't hear me

telling saying that the people i

disagree with are stupid

i i don't do that

lots of times they're brilliant

aoc for example i think is brilliant i

just disagree with her on a lot of stuff

but this general milly he just actually

did look dumb

i mean he just oozed the dumbness

and it looks like maybe he's responsible

i don't know now we've got a lot of

blame to spread around biden of course

the you know joint chiefs

uh our intelligence people the

politicians a lot of blame

but i feel like

this guy might have most of it

well china is already announcing that it

wants to work with the taliban

and help them develop afghanistan

a question you might ask yourself is

hmm

has the taliban heard about the uyghurs

or do they even care

you know is the taliban a genuine

organization meaning that it's really

about

their beliefs

or is it just another political

group that wants power and they're just

using their beliefs to get it

well

they're working with china and china is

putting people who believe what they

believe in prison camps

so they're not operating on principle

clearly

they're operating on some kind of

self-interest

model

but

i'm wondering if this isn't biden's

secret plan to destroy china

because

can somebody give me a history lesson

here

is it true or just one of these fake

news kinds of things

when people say that the soviet union

fell in part because of afghanistan is

that true or is that just bad history

somebody give me a

give me a quick history lesson on this

only true for the army as you're saying

but did

did afghanistan contribute to the fall

of uh soviet union

in any significant way i'm seeing some

truths

but i always wonder if that's like fake

news

or maybe maybe it was exaggerated how

much impact that had

how could it not yeah i mean it was

expensive so that alone

yeah so

i'm seeing some no's

i'm not i'm not entirely convinced that

that was the biggest part of why the

soviet union fell but maybe it was part

so here's the good news

uh

china working with the taliban is not

going to be easy

and of course china is going to need to

dominate them

because it tries to dominate everything

and of course the taliban is going to

want to dominate too so how in the world

do they get how do they work together

how in the world could that work

maybe

um but it looks like a secret plan to

destroy china by letting them work with

the taliban

now of course as many of you know

china's interest is probably

further cornering of the rare minerals

market

how many of you know that the

afghanistan is probably about the rare

minerals

they seem to have a lot of them

and china has cornered the market on a

lot of the rare mineral minerals that

the united states needs

so if we want to be a technology power

in the future we need those rare

minerals and china is going to

control them

in afghanistan and everywhere else

yeah there's a one trillion estimated to

be there

in in rem whatever that is arya

and their minerals are easily available

well easily

meaning in terms of mining it's easy

in terms of bullets flying around not so

much

so the rare mineral question is a big

one now here's a adam dopamine

tweeted this

today that nasa is studying a an

asteroid that also has rare minerals in

it

so if we can get to the asteroid with

all of its minerals not all of them are

rare but

some of the good ones are

that here's here's nasa's estimate of

the value of this one asteroid if we

could get to it

700

quintillion dollars

that's the mineral value of one asteroid

700 quintillion

do you understand why billionaires are

going to space

billionaires are going to space

to become quintillionaires

that's right

probably somebody and it may be the next

generation of billionaires i don't know

if we can get there in the next

generation

but at some point

some billionaire is going to land a

mining expedition on an asteroid

and become

a quintillionaire

a quintillionaire would run the world

wouldn't they

if you had a quintillion dollars

uh and of course that's impossible

because you couldn't add that much to

the economy without you know everything

changing

but

uh

there could be a real rich

quintillionaire

maybe maybe a trillionaire

so that's a one of those uh black swan

you don't see it coming could change

everything situations but it's not going

to help us in the near term

so we better figure out how to get some

rare earth minerals

um biden's approval is at its lowest

point i guess according to rasmussen

and rasmussen poll

but i wonder if it could go lower

because i don't think you can

do you

i don't think there's anything that

biden could do

that would get him below about what it

is you know give or take a point because

i feel like the country is so divided

that there's a you know every president

has a lower limit and they just can't go

lower than that because that means

you know their best supporters would

change

and you're really only getting a you

know a slice of the independence and

that's about it

so i don't think his his

approval will go lower than it is it's

about the low as low as anything you get

this is a matt walsh tweet that i

thought summed up afghanistan as well as

i could have ever hoped to say it but he

said it better his tweet he said an

afghan army of three hundred thousand

which had been equipped and trained by

the us for twenty years

fell in two days to a gang of medieval

terrorists who they outnumbered three to

one

and then he said we can't indefinitely

sustain a country that has absolutely no

will to exist in the first place

exactly

exactly you can't help afghanistan

if they don't have the will to

fight for their own whatever now

apparently they have plenty of will to

be taliban

whatever the taliban is doing is working

now by the way do you know another i

haven't seen any reporting on this

but are you aware that the

the bad guys

uh and isis was the famous one for this

they would take some kind of drug that

would make them fearless in battle it

was a some kind of i think it was a

narcotic

but but they commonly took some kind of

drug that made them

you know impervious to fear

which made them impossible to beat

because you couldn't you couldn't make

them afraid by killing a lot of them

they just keep coming

so

i think that drug is a big part of the

story of why a lot a smaller force could

mean a bigger force

but yeah why were we in a country that

didn't have the will to sustain itself

it really didn't it didn't have any

interest in being its own country it

looked like

max abrams had a funny tweet about this

he said i think the cdc was supplying

biden

with intel about kabul

is there any large organization

public organization

that is now that is not thoroughly uh

discredited

is anybody left

what would be a major

american organization

let's say a public organization

that still has any credibility

i would say the military still does

would you agree

our military leaders

got some explaining to do especially

this week

but the the military itself

i would say

still credible

supreme court

we don't like the decision sometimes but

i would say he's still credible

so i think the supreme court

and the military

are holding the country together

that's that's what i think that's what

it feels like

um well the police yes i would say i

think the police are still credible

right

you know

would you agree i mean you could march

all you want about individual tragedies

that happen

they should never have happened but i

think the police are still a credible

organization

you aren't credible if half the country

doesn't trust you

well who would that refer to

um

not yet not the teachers unions not

intel not the government not congress

not the cdc not the world health

organization

credibility is pretty hard to come by

these days

speaking of credibility the white house

press secretary i saw joel quote

uh tweet on this

so jen saki is taking her vacation

at the same time that biden's on

vacation which makes sense

or doesn't

does it make sense that the spokesperson

would be on vacation the same time as

the

president

i guess it could go either way

but

what could be a worse look than the

worst botching of international anything

we've ever had and a president who's on

vacation

that's the worst look now there's some

reporting

that is jill biden

who's the one who

kept joe biden from

talking in public sooner

i wonder if that's true again that's the

kind of news i don't believe you know

just on the surface

but who knows

so have you ever felt more leaderless

than this

isn't this the most leaderless you've

ever felt

like i don't really think anybody's in

charge right now

do you

i mean literally who's in charge

because nobody really believes that

biden has full control of anything

and when he's on vacation it just sort

of raises that question literally who's

in charge

i don't know who's running the country

right now

what would stop china from taking over

taiwan tomorrow

could you imagine a better time to do it

now i don't think it's going to happen

because i mean

that would get pretty pretty bloody

pretty fast

but

if they were looking for an opportunity

to do it

what's better than this week

no i don't think it'll happen

and it would be

horrible if it did

but

we put ourselves in a bad situation here

with our allies

so

we do have to worry about that

apparently uh speaking of how bad china

is

i guess they work with uh

oh oh so in dubai there's a

there's some reporting that there's a

black site

that china uses to you know capture

their dissidents and interrogate them

and stuff

in other countries

so of course china has its own black

sites within its country to interrogate

people in the worst possible way but

apparently they have one in dubai

or at least in the country there

so

that's pretty bad

and why is it that any islamic country

would deal with china

what's up with that

why would any islamic country deal with

them they are literally trying to erase

islam

at least within china and anything that

they control

here's the weirdest story

russia and china did joint military

exercises

did you know that

russia and china

had any kind of military coordination

did you know about that

um

clueless scott there's never any

infighting

i understand

no

um

i tell you that there there's nothing

that annoys me more than somebody

telling me i don't understand something

that everybody understands like a a

comment that i'll get is

scott doesn't understand

the rain clouds create rain

and i think

i think everybody understands that

scott doesn't understand that if you run

over a squirrel

with a car

it's going to hurt the squirrel

actually i do understand that

so whatever it is you think about my

opinion

probably not because of that

so don't tell me what i don't understand

especially when they're easy things to

understand

so russia and china did this joint

military exercise which experts say was

probably just a complete waste of time

because apparently if you're doing joint

military exercises

if you do a choreographed stuff it's

sort of just for politics and show and

propaganda

so you need what they call the the uh

i don't know the free range things where

the military people can make decisions

and see what the other people do and

then maybe you learn something so it

wasn't that kind so it wasn't the the

useful kind of military exercise it was

more for show

but

why in the world

are russia and china coordinating

on what on what exactly

now there was some

some thinking that it was about

terrorism

but do they really need to coordinate

military

for terrorism i mean how much terrorism

is going to happen in either one of

those countries

seems seems like they would just handle

it with their own militaries no matter

what

so it's probably just good politics that

russia and china because they're

neighbors

that they work together on as many

things as they can figure out to work

together it's probably good for both of

them

but here's my take on all this

russia should have been our ally

russia

should be our ally against china now

that's probably too hard for them to do

because they're right you know they have

a border

but

we need to find some way

that rush is on our side militarily

and

it's hard for me to believe that there's

so many things that putin wants

that we don't want that we couldn't find

some way that we're both better off

because i feel like russia they're deal

makers now maybe you can't trust them

that's a separate issue right maybe they

make a deal and you think they'll break

it

but

they're deal makers

and i can't see any scenario in which

we're not better better off

working with ch with russia instead of

against them now china is a different

story

if we worked with china

for the long run

they would be trying to dominate us

and would be probably be dumb to even

try

but

uh i think russia just has interests

that are common with ours or could i

mean right now we're spending all our

time with these cyber attacks against

each other

why

why it's because we're trying to

suppress russia

why

because we think that they're trying to

do bad stuff to us because they are

why

basically

any dispute between russia and the

united states

is completely about what the other one

did yesterday

it has nothing to do with our strategic

interests i don't think

i don't think

because i don't see russia

wanting to conquer

europe

right i mean there are some disputes

about russian-speaking territories and

you know we have to deal with that but

the bigger picture i just think we don't

have enough not in common

so that's just my take on that

and then on election fraud

let's talk about election fraud

as i keep telling you every day that

goes by

without

um

every day that goes by without

confirmation of any kind of election

fraud

probably means there's less likelihood

we'll ever find it

do you agree with that

general statement

that the longer we go without finding

any fraud

the less likely it is there

would you agree now i know there's some

things that they can't look into there's

some stuff that can't be audited et

cetera

but

or let me put it a different way because

yeah you don't know what you don't know

so that's so i guess you could never

know that there's something hiding in

there because you can't water it at all

but

certainly they haven't found it yet

how many would disagree with the

statement

we would know by now

if the audit found the goods

we would know by now even though they

haven't officially announced it how many

agree with that we would know by now

because of a leak

if they had the goods

almost all of you are disagreeing

oh i like this

this is fun um i saw probably

but almost all of you are disagreeing

interesting

all right well i i i like that that's

fun because then you can see you see how

good my predicting is

okay so do we have uh can we say that we

have opposing predictions

so my prediction is that

no election fraud has been found

massive election fraud has been found

yet

right so i'm not talking about whether

something is found still

in the future

i'm saying that as of right now

my prediction is

that nothing will come to the surface

that has found that has been found

already as of the state

anybody anybody want to take the other

side of that

who would take the other side of that

bet so my bet is that nothing has been

found this massive fraud that can be

proven

so far

let's see in your comments

it will never be enough correct

probably right agree

not taking that bet to greed

i'm seeing a little bit of uh

capitulation here

have you ever heard that word

capitulation in terms of uh the stock

market

yeah that's what it looks like it looks

like capitulation i feel as if

the people who were let's say optimistic

if you could call it that

that the audit would find massive fraud

i feel like you're losing your optimism

now right

now keep in mind this was my prediction

yeah

you reframed it

well yeah i did change the question

right

um is he reading locals comments or

youtube both

i can see them both

so

i was getting more comments on locals

agreeing with me

there's a timing difference if you do a

comment on locals i see it almost

immediately

if you do a comment on youtube i think

there's maybe a

20-second delay or something

they have found fraud but they need the

routers to prove it somebody says no

that would be they haven't found fraud

if you still need something to prove it

you haven't found it

we always had suspicions you know there

are plenty of things that look sketchy

but if you still need something to prove

it you haven't found it that's that's my

point now does that mean it's not there

let me say again

my overall opinion of the election the

election is designed

to hide fraud

the election is designed

to hide fraud because you can't audit

parts of it with the digital part

that's a design

um that's a

design choice

it's not an accident

um so if you design something to hide

fraud

and it's a high value target and lots of

people are going to try because it's a

high value target

the the one thing you can say with

certainty is that

at some point it will be

subject to fraud

you just don't know if it happened

already the only thing you don't know

is if it happened already

now that's the mystery we need to solve

and it looks like we're not going to

solve it at least in terms of not going

to find any evidence

scott apparently doesn't realize his

youtube show has an inherent delay

now you may have missed my mocking from

just a moment ago

in which i said

why do people tell me what i don't know

scott doesn't know

that youtube has an inherent delay

yeah i do know that

i do know that now you could call it

inherent or

or any other word but i know that the

system has a delay

um

let's see

i'm gonna i'm gonna have to run in a

little bit i've got something i gotta do

but is there any news that doesn't

involve china being bad

do you notice that

that how much of our news has to do with

china

a lot right

china is either directly or indirectly

either by we have to compete with them

or something about climate change is

changing our energy policy and our

fentanyl you know our homeless and

fentanyl and deaths is about china the

covet is about china the afghanistan is

about china

it's all about china

stop asian hate

stop asian hate

where did you see asian hate

did you imagine that you saw some of

that there you know the united states

has tons of asian americans

all patriots

and

you know has nothing to do with that

right

you know one of the things about

you might not be american whoever said

that

yeah that could be a china troll you're

right but let me explain america

we're not really about that

in terms of our

you know our uh or let's say our point

of view about the outside world

um

it's not anti-asian

the the united states is is a bunch of

muts we're just a bunch of

stuff thrown together

like that's not our deal here

it's about the it's about the government

the chinese people

tremendous people

how many chinese american friends

you know do you have i got lots

right uh family members family members

as well

so

it's definitely not about chinese people

chinese people are awesome

chinese government

well

chinese government not so awesome

and i think the chinese people would

agree with most of that

so definitely not about any

anti-asian anything we don't do that

here

this this is not the live stream where

you're going to see

anti-anything like that

okay

somebody says same with the iranians

love them but cannot stand the ayatollah

yeah if you spend and i don't know why

you state each of you are in of course

but in california you meet tons of

iranian americans

and what do they mostly have in common

they're awesome

they're awesome i'm not maybe it's a

coincidence but it seems like every time

i meet somebody who has some iranian

background you know persian if you

prefer

they're pretty awesome

i know it seems like a pattern that i

recognize

um so it's definitely not about that

all right um

yeah i'm talking about

all right

our government is pretty crappy these

days you know i wonder do you think our

government is actually crappier

oh this rapid test device

or do you think that we just know it now

because i wonder if if anything's ever

been better

i'm seeing on the locals platform where

they can paste pictures into the

comments

there's a covet 19 rapid test device

it looks like chinese lettering on it

where's that from

i'd like to know where that comes from

all right

uh

okay i don't know what some of these

comments are about but i'm going to go

get ready to do something else

and i'm still working on a uh micro

lesson that i'll post on locals about uh

managing your ego

and embarrassment now i've done this

topic before

but there does seem there seems to be a

hunger for it because in my opinion it's

the biggest

biggest problem that bothers you

is is your ego you just don't know it

so i'm gonna do that

um

fairly soon and by the way the part of

the reason that my micro lessons have

slowed down as i'm having house

construction

and it's noisy here most of the day

after i finish this

so it's just not good for filming during

the day

or live streaming

uh any micro lesson on the imposter

syndrome you know i'll work that in

there i'll work that into the same topic

all right that's all i got for now i'll

see you tomorrow thanks