Episode 326 Scott Adams - China, Mass Migration, Peak Climate Change, Fusion Power, Misandry
President Trump’s tweet on Fentanyl death penalty Unlimited power from fusion reactors is getting closer to reality Yellow vested French workers will be out of work in 10 years Countries who do and don’t control immigration in 10 years Other countries are beginning to want their own President Trump Populations are reaching peak tolerance for taxes Climate change feels closer to resolved, rather than dire Kirsten Gillibrand tweets “our future is female” A Senator is allowed to say that? The future is NOT equality, that ISN’T what we seek? The future is men against women? 48 hour rule is in effect for clarification ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I fund my Periscopes and podcasts via audience micro-donations on Patreon. I prefer this method over accepting advertisements or working for a "boss" somewhere because it keeps my voice independent. No one owns me, and that is rare. I'm trying in my own way to make the world a better place, and your contributions help me stay inspired to do that. See all of my Periscope videos here… https://www.pscp.tv/ScottAdamsSays/1nAKERDOwylGL Find my WhenHub Interface app here… https://interface.whenhub.com
Didn't intend to, but boop-boo-boo-boop. Uncle Joe, I'm always in here quickly. You've got the fastest fingers in all of the planet. Hey Ryan and Ray, Brian, Tyler. Do you all have your coffee or the beverage of your choice? I'm very permissive with my simultaneous sips. Get in here and enjoy with m…
View segment →It's time for coffee with Scott Adams. Grab your mug, your stein, your glass, your cup, your container, your chalice. Fill it with your favorite beverage. I like coffee. And join me for the simultaneous sip. Mine is prescription strength.
View segment →I would like to start off with a tweet from my president. I'm calling him my president today because I like what he did in this tweet and what he did that he's talking about. I will just read it to you if you have not seen it. This is a tweet from this morning from President Donald J. Trump. It's a…
View segment →Now let's read some more of my, so I've got another tweet. I tweeted out about nuclear fusion. If you don't know, nuclear fusion is that long-promised technology that's always promised but never arrives. And the idea is that instead of nuclear fission, which we have now, which is wasteful and danger…
View segment →Now fusion is a big game-changer because what happens when you have self-driving cars and unlimited cheap energy? You see all those people rioting in France. They were wearing the yellow vests. So those are the yellow vests that everybody who drives for a living in France wears, whether they're truc…
View segment →Now I made a bold prediction on social media yesterday and I predicted that we have reached peak climate change alarm. Now I'm not saying we've reached peak temperature. That's a separate thing. I'm saying that in terms of our alarm over it I think we've peaked. And here are the things I'm looking a…
View segment →I will be flying out in a little bit to snow country myself and I'm gonna have to get ready for that. I'll see if I talked about everything I want to talk about. Yes I did. Yes I did. Alright so it seems to me that the biggest problems in the world are being addressed. I think health care, health c…
View segment →So there's a tweet this morning from Kirsten Gillibrand. Gillibrand. Gillibrand, US senator from New York. And she actually said this. This is her tweet from this morning. It's almost hard to believe isn't it. And she says, this is Kirsten Gillibrand, a sitting senator who says our future is female,…
View segment →So, scary. Yep. Anyway I don't have much else to say about that except it's a scary world and I got to go get ready for a trip and I will talk to you all later.
View segment →Didn't intend to, but boop-boo-boo-boop. Uncle Joe, I'm always in here quickly. You've got the fastest fingers in all of the planet. Hey Ryan and Ray, Brian, Tyler. Do you all have your coffee or the beverage of your choice? I'm very permissive with my simultaneous sips. Get in here and enjoy with me the simultaneous sip.
It's time for coffee with Scott Adams. Grab your mug, your stein, your glass, your cup, your container, your chalice. Fill it with your favorite beverage. I like coffee. And join me for the simultaneous sip. Mine is prescription strength.
I would like to start off with a tweet from my president. I'm calling him my president today because I like what he did in this tweet and what he did that he's talking about. I will just read it to you if you have not seen it. This is a tweet from this morning from President Donald J. Trump. It's a two-parter. He says one of the very exciting things to come out of my meeting with President Xi of China is he promised to me to criminalize the sale of deadly fentanyl coming into the United States. So far so good. It will now be considered a controlled substance. This could be a game-changer on what is, I'm now moving to the second part of the tweet, considered to be the worst and most dangerous addictive and deadly substance of them all. Last year over 77,000 people died from fentanyl. That's a little bit of an exaggeration but it's in the ballpark. If China cracks down on this horror drug using the death penalty, did I say the death penalty, for distributors and pushers, the results will be incredible.
And so I drink to effective government, one that listens to the people, one that takes bold action to get things done. This is how it's supposed to work. Now we're not done. We don't know if China is going to do what it's supposed to do, but so far it's looking promising. Share a drink with me now.
There was some reporting last day or two in which people were saying, hey, how come China is not reporting the good news or the progress made at the G20, whereas the United States is crowing that we got some things, but China is kind of silent on it. My guess on that, this is just a guess because I live in the real world, is that nobody in China was willing to write a story until they were really, really sure or President Xi said and what he would be okay with them printing, because it's China. And President Xi may have just been busy. He's got a lot of, he's got a big country to run. He's traveling around. So yeah, so they made remarks today that apparently were positive. But it would make sense to me that they would not have an immediate response because it's a complicated topic. You know, who gave what to whom, who promised what, who's doing what in terms of the tariffs in the trade war. So I think the press in China probably just waited because they couldn't afford to get it wrong. You know, you don't even want to be ten percent wrong because it looks like it's coming from Xi and that would give away their negotiating position if they said, oh yeah, we're giving away this, that. It could have been embarrassing. People could get in trouble. So I think they were quiet just because they needed to wait and make sure they really knew what President Xi had promised or not promised.
Now let's read some more of my, so I've got another tweet. I tweeted out about nuclear fusion. If you don't know, nuclear fusion is that long-promised technology that's always promised but never arrives. And the idea is that instead of nuclear fission, which we have now, which is wasteful and dangerous in some ways, that you could create unlimited energy in a fairly safe way through a different technology called fusion.
Now the reason that we've never been able to create these so-called fusion reactors is because apparently the biggest engineering challenge was the magnets. So the way they have to contain the reaction is through enormous magnetic fields because it's the only way to contain it. And apparently there have been breakthroughs recently in materials, you know, in the material science that would create new types of magnetic materials which at least on paper they think they can engineer something in the next three years to refine the engineering to the point where it can reach this level of magnetic strength to hold the reaction in. Now that, as I understand it, is the last of the engineering challenges. And on paper it's pretty close to working, meaning that it might be just some fiddling with the engineering of it. So whereas it used to be science fiction, meaning somebody had to invent something that didn't exist in order for fusion to work, at this point it looks like everything's been invented.
Now I told you this maybe a year or two ago that I know somebody who's a major investor in this space, somebody who's actually investing in fusion and one of the smartest people you'll ever meet. His name, but you know, hugely successful, richer than God type of person, who told me privately that, now wasn't involved, it told me privately that fusion is reduced now to an engineering problem. Meaning that the science has actually been solved if they can get these magnets to actually work in an actual engineered way.
So I would liken it to building, let's say somebody decided to build a building that's twice as tall as all current buildings. Well we don't exactly know how to build that building. Probably the architects would have to play with the engineers. They'd have to adjust things because you wouldn't do it exactly like the existing buildings and just make it taller. You probably have to do extra engineering to make it strong enough. But we know how. If we wanted to build a building that was twice as tall as all existing buildings it could be done. It's an engineering problem. It's not a science problem. So it looks like fusion has been reduced to an engineering problem and we might see something in ten years.
Now fusion is a big game-changer because what happens when you have self-driving cars and unlimited cheap energy? You see all those people rioting in France. They were wearing the yellow vests. So those are the yellow vests that everybody who drives for a living in France wears, whether they're truckers or cab drivers or whatever. All of those people are going to be unemployed. All of them. Because the self-driving trucks and cars with their unlimited inexpensive energy will take over that entire industry.
Now here's one of the filters of the world that not everybody shares. I'm going to tie together a few points. So we talked about fusion will make the driving industry just go away. Between self-driving vehicles plus unlimited energy, people are just going to be looking for other jobs.
Here's a point in economics that I have not heard anybody say as clearly as I'm going to say it right now. A hundred years ago almost all immigration was good because a hundred years ago you didn't have technology. And if somebody came in and they didn't have an education you could still put them right to work. You could clear a little extra farmland and grow a little extra stuff because now you have more employees. You also had not much in the way of social services. So if somebody came in a hundred years ago they added to the economy immediately because they could do the work and we needed workers. There was no room constraints because the country was still, you know, it just seemed to be like there was lots of room and there were no social services so nobody was paying taxes to support them.
Today the situation is reversed because we're right at the point where even the people who already have jobs, the people in their yellow vests for example, they're not going to be employed in ten years. They won't have jobs in ten years, at least not the same ones they have. And the people coming into the country will only be able to do the types of jobs that don't exist and they'll be coming into countries with robust welfare systems. So everything that worked about the economics of migration in the past, the fact that we didn't have a welfare support system and the fact that there were unlimited manual jobs, this completely reversed. So now there's a huge welfare system and all of those jobs are going away. In fact there might not be enough for the people who are already here.
So I was checking my portfolio this morning and I realized that if you're trying to invest for ten or 20 years, and by the way I'm not, this is not investment advice so please don't consider this any kind of investment advice, but the question you have to ask yourself is what would be the difference between countries that control their immigration and those that don't. For example if Europe continues treating immigration the way it used to be a hundred years ago, which is that it's all positive, it's good for the economy, it's good for the people, it's just all good, in a situation where it will have massive upheaval, it will tax their social systems and jobs will be so sparse in ten years at the lower end, it's going to be problems. So you really have to think about whether you would want money in a country that was very permissive immigration-wise.
And I'm also going to predict that more countries are going to want their own Trump. You know I'm watching the fentanyl news that we just talked about and Canada has also a huge fentanyl problem. So their problem is big. It's smaller in total numbers because of the population differences but Canada didn't get this done. Canada did not convince China to criminalize fentanyl. That was President Trump. And they're going to ideally maybe benefit in some ways from that. So I think you're gonna see, and you see in France that I think the people rioting probably wish they had a little bit more Trump and a little less Macron. So you might see a big wave of countries saying oh let's be more like that. I think that's coming.
Now I made a bold prediction on social media yesterday and I predicted that we have reached peak climate change alarm. Now I'm not saying we've reached peak temperature. That's a separate thing. I'm saying that in terms of our alarm over it I think we've peaked. And here are the things I'm looking at to make that calculation.
Number one, what just happened in France. You saw that the population that is going to take the brunt of anything we do just decided they're not going to. They just decided that they're not going to take it. So I think other countries are going to look at what happened in France and they're going to say well you can make a law to tax our gas but it's gonna look like France when you do. You know there's going to be a riot. So I think the population has reached the peak tolerance for raising their taxes to deal with something that they can't quite feel and see and touch the way they can their paycheck. So that's the first thing.
Second thing, I think you're seeing is that every year that goes by and we don't see a catastrophe that's obviously a climate change-related thing, every time there's anything like a fire or whatever the news will say it's climate change but it's getting less and less believable because the ocean isn't going up every year. So every year seems pretty similar to the one before in terms of our experience on it. So there's that. Although the news will keep talking about any situations where it does look like it's climate change.
But maybe the most important one is this latest climate report that showed that the biggest risk is a 10% less GDP over 80 years than it could have been. So instead of the GDP going this much higher it's gonna go only this much higher. In other words we won't even notice it. So the most scary and credible current numbers about climate change tell us that looks like we can handle that. And then you add on top of that fusion and you add on top of it every other technology that will have some role in this and it's feeling like it's closer to solved than dire. That's what it feels like to me. And I'm not sure I would even have said that a month ago. I was actually really scared until the latest climate report. Scared in the sense that it would seem like a real danger we had to worry about. And then the climate report came out and it was designed to scare us and did exactly the opposite and said it costs a little money, we'll just get better air conditioning.
Yeah I told you that Richard Branson is involved with some kind of a three billion dollar prize for developing the best new kind of air conditioning. So if you have the best kind of new air conditioning in ten years and you've got better economies because things are just improving every year and you've got fusion maybe in ten, you're looking pretty good. Looking pretty good.
I will be flying out in a little bit to snow country myself and I'm gonna have to get ready for that. I'll see if I talked about everything I want to talk about. Yes I did. Yes I did.
Alright so it seems to me that the biggest problems in the world are being addressed. I think health care, health care is still the one that seems like it's dangling out there that the Trump administration is working hard on, reduced regulations and making things more market friendly and capitalism friendly which should lower prices but they need to package that up a lot better.
Oh, a music biz injury. Yes I'm sorry.
So there's a tweet this morning from Kirsten Gillibrand. Gillibrand. Gillibrand, US senator from New York. And she actually said this. This is her tweet from this morning. It's almost hard to believe isn't it. And she says, this is Kirsten Gillibrand, a sitting senator who says our future is female, intersectional, powered by our belief in one another and we're just getting started. Our future is female.
Now that might be true and you know I'm not going to argue with the fact of it or the non-fact of it but are you allowed to say that? Are you allowed to be a U.S. senator and say that men are going to be left behind? Because that's what she's saying. She's not saying the future is equality. She's saying the future is not men. She might be right and it would be this kind of attitude that would make that happen but how do you keep your job after this? Seriously how do you go full sexist anti-male as a sitting U.S. senator with no embarrassment whatsoever? This is, you know, she is proudly saying that the future is women. Imagine if anybody said anything like that for any other category. You know I usually don't like to do the well imagine if somebody else did it. I hate that. But this is one where you could put it into anything. The future is fill it in with anything. Could you say that? I don't think you could say that out loud and keep your job in any field in any business. If you worked in corporate America could you keep your job after you said the future is female? I don't know. Could you?
And somebody said she has two boys. I don't know about her personal life. Now it could be that what she means is that women will do better than they're doing now. Maybe something like that. And of course I give her the 48-hour courtesy because this is one where there could be room for misinterpretation. So if she'd like to clarify in the next 48 hours I will fully accept that clarification. Yes the 48-hour rule for clarification and or apology is in effect.
But this is really jaw-dropping. It feels like, how do I say this, it feels like I don't think women understand what it's like to be male just as men don't understand what it's like to be women and just like nobody really understands what it's like to be anybody else. So we'll start with that assumption that's true. But one of the things that women really don't understand about men is that at least in the United States men do a lot to compensate for the fact that they feel like they have advantages. In other words men make lots of allowances for the fact that there are advantages to being male. You know I can pretty much go anywhere without being afraid. I can be alone with anybody without being afraid that something will happen. There are probably some jobs I can get that are harder for a woman to get. So you have advantages. And what would happen if it just turned into all-out war? And I don't mean war in a violent way. I mean what if men were allowed to just absolutely compete against women without any hesitation, without any obstacles, without any social constraints. No violence. I'm not talking about that. I'm just saying that all the social constraints come off and men just say alright it's us against you now. So we're not even going to pretend we're on the same team anymore. It's just us against you. What does that world look like? Do you want to live in that world? That's the world you don't want to live in. And I'd be a little bit afraid about trying to materialize that kind of world.
So, scary. Yep. Anyway I don't have much else to say about that except it's a scary world and I got to go get ready for a trip and I will talk to you all later.
didn't intent thing but boop-boo-boo-boop Uncle Joe am always in here quickly you've got the fastest fingers in all of the planet hey Ryan and Ray Brian Tyler do you all have your coffee or the beverage of your choice I'm very permissive with my simultaneous hips get in here and enjoy with me the simultaneous up it's time for coffee with Scott Adams grab your mug your stein your glass your cup your container your chalice fill it with your favorite beverage I like coffee and join me for the simultaneous sip mine is prescription strength I would like to start off with a tweet from my president I'm calling him my president today because I like what he did in this tweet and what he did that he's talking about I will just read it to you if you have not seen it this is a tweet from this morning from President Donald J Trump it's a two-parter he says one of the very exciting things to come out of my meeting with President Xi of China is to promise to me to criminalize the sale of deadly fentanyl coming into the United States so far so good it will now be considered a quote controlled substance this could be a game-changer on what is I'm now moving to the second part of the tweet considered to be the worst and most dangerous addictive and deadly substance of them all last year over 77,000 people died from fentanyl that's a little bit of an exaggeration but it's in the ballpark if China cracks down on this quote horror drug using the death penalty did I say the death penalty for distributors and pushers the results will be incredible and so I drink to effective government one that listens to the people one that takes bold action to get things done this is how it's supposed to work now we're not done we don't know if China is going to do what it's supposed to do but so far it's looking promising share a drink with me now there was some reporting last day or two in which people were saying hey how come China is not reporting the good news or the progress made in at the g20 whereas the United States is growing that we got some things but China is kind of silent on it my guess on that this is just a guess because I live in the real world is that nobody in China was willing to write a story until they were really really sure or President Xi said and what he would be okay with them printing cuz it's China and President Xi may have just been busy he's got a lot of he's got a big country to run he's traveling around so yeah so they made remarks today that apparently were were positive but it would make sense to me that they would not have an immediate response because it's a complicated topic you know who gave wire to promised what who's doing what in terms of the tariffs in the trade war so I think the press in China probably just waited because they couldn't afford to get it wrong there you know you don't even want to be ten percent wrong because it looks like it's coming from Qi and and that would give away their negotiating position if they said oh yeah we're giving away this was that could have been embarrassing people could get in trouble so I think they were quiet just because they needed to wait and make sure they really knew what the what President Xi had promised or not promised now let's read some more of my so I've got another tweet I tweeted around about nuclear fusion if you don't know nuclear fusion is that long-promised technology that's always promised but never arrives and the idea is that instead of nuclear nuclear fission which we have now which is wasteful and dangerous in some ways that you could create unlimited energy in a fairly safe way through a different technology called fusion now the reason that we've never been able to create these so-called fusion reactors is because apparently the biggest engineering challenge was the magnets so the way the way they have to contain the reaction is through enormous magnetic fields because it's the only way to contain it and apparently there have been breakthroughs recently in materials you know in the material science that would create new types of magnetic materials which at least on paper they think they can they can engineer something in the next three years to to refine the engineering to the point where it can reach this level of magnetic strength to hold the reaction in now that as I understand it is the last of the engineering challenges and on paper it's pretty close to working meaning that it might be just some fiddling with the engineering of it so whereas it used to be science fiction meaning somebody had to invent something that didn't exist in order for a fusion to work at this point it looks like everything's been invented now I told you this maybe a year or two ago that I know somebody who's a major investor in this space somebody who's actually investing in fusion and one of the smartest people you'll ever meet his name but you know hugely successful richer than richer than God type of person who told me privately that now wasn't wasn't involved it told me privately that fusion is reduced now to an engineering problem meaning that the science has actually been solved if they can get these magnets to actually work in an actual engineered way so I would liken it to building let's say somebody decided to build a building that's twice as tall as all current buildings well we don't exactly know how to build that building probably you know the architects would have to play with the engineers they'd have to adjust things because you wouldn't do it exactly like the existing buildings and just make it taller you probably have to do extra engineering to make it a strong enough but we know how but you know if we wanted to build a building that was twice as tall as all existing buildings it could be done it's an engineering problem it's not a science problem so it looks like fusion has been reduced to an engineering problem and we might see something in ten years now the fusion is a big game-changer because what happens when you have self-driving cars and unlimited to cheap energy you see what did you see all those people rioting in France they were wearing the the green jackets so those are the green jackets that everybody who drives for a living in front in France where so whether they're truckers or a cab drivers or whatever all of those people are going to be unemployed all of them because the self-driving trucks and cars with their unlimited inexpensive energy will take over that entire industry now here's one of the one of the filters of the world that not everybody shares I'm going to tie together a few few points so we talked about fusion will make you know the driving industry just go that between you know self-driving vehicles plus unlimited energy people are just going to be looking for other jobs here's a point in economics that I have not heard anybody say as clearly as I'm going to say it right now are they yellow vests somebody say when yellow green a hundred years ago almost all immigration was good because a hundred years ago you didn't have technology and if somebody came in and they didn't have an education you can still put a right to work you could clear a little extra farmland and grow a little extra stuff because now you have more employees you also had not much in the way of social services so if somebody came in a hundred years ago they added to the economy immediately because they could do the work and we needed workers there was no you know no room constraints because the country was still you know it just seemed to be like there was lots of room and there were no social services so nobody was paying taxes to support them today the situation is reversed because we're right at the point where even the people who already have jobs the people in their yellow vests for example they're not going to be employed in ten years they won't have jobs in ten years at least not same ones they have and the people coming into the country will only be able to do the types of jobs that don't exist and they'll be coming into countries with robust welfare systems so everything that worked about the economy economics of migration in the past the fact that we didn't have a welfare support system and the fact that there were unlimited manual jobs this completely reversed so now there's a huge welfare system and all of those jobs are going away in fact there might be enough for the people who are already here so I was checking my portfolio this morning and I realized that if you're if you're trying to invest for 20 years 10 or 20 years that and by the way I'm not this is not investment advice so please don't consider this any kind of investment advice but the question you have to ask yourself is what would be the difference between countries that control their immigration and those that don't for example if Europe continues treating immigration the way it used to be a hundred years ago which is that it's all positive it's good for the economy it's good for the people it's just it's just all good in in a situation where it will have massive upheaval it will tax their social systems and jobs will be so so it was sparse in ten years at the lower end it's going to be problems so you really have to think about whether you would want money in a country that was very permissive immigration wise so and I'm also going to predict that more countries are going to want their own Trump you know I'm watching the the fentanyl news that we just talked about and Canada has also a huge fentanyl problem so their their problem is big you know it's um it's smaller and total numbers because of the population differences but Canada didn't get this done Canada did not convince China to criminalize fentanyl that was President Trump and they're going to be the ideally there will maybe benefit in some ways from that so I think you're gonna see and you see in France that I think the people writing probably wish they had a little bit more Trump and a little less 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Crone so you might see a big wave of countries saying oh let's be more like I think that's coming now I I made a bold prediction a bold prediction on social media yesterday and I predicted that we have reached peak climate change alarm now I'm now saying we've reached peak temperature that's a separate thing I'm saying that in terms of our alarm over it I think we've peaked and here are the things I'm looking at to make that calculation number one what just what just happened in France you saw that the population that is going to take the brunt of anything we do just decided they're not going to they just decided that they're not going to take it so I think other countries are going to look what happened in France and they're going to say well you can make a law to tax our gas but it's gonna look like France when you do you know there's going to be a riot so I think the population has reached the the peak tolerance for raising their taxes to deal with something that they can't quite feel and see and touch the way they can their paycheck so that's the first thing second thing I think you're seeing is that every year that goes by and we don't see a catastrophe that's obviously a climate change-related thing every time there's anything like a fire or whatever the news will say it's climate change but it's getting less and less believable because the ocean isn't going up every year so every year seems pretty similar to the one before in terms of our experience on it so there's that although the news will keep talking about any any situations where it does look like it's climate change but maybe the most important one is this latest climate report that showed that the biggest risk is a 10% less GDP over 80 years than it could have been so instead of the GDP going this higher this much higher it's gonna go only this much higher in other words we won't even notice it so the most scary and credible current numbers about climate change tell us that looks like we can handle that and then you add on top of that fusion and you add on top of it every other technology that will have some some some role in this and it's feeling like it's feeling like closer to solved then dire that's what it feels like to me and I'm not sure I would even said that a month ago it took I was actually really scared until the latest climate report scared in the sense that it would seem like a real danger we had to worry about and then the climate report came out and it was designed to scare us and did exactly the opposite and said cost a little money will just get better air conditioning yeah I told you that Richard Branson is involved with some kind of a three billion dollar you know prize for developing the best new kind of air conditioning so if you have the best kind of new air conditioning in ten years and you've got better economies because things are just improving every year and you've got fusion maybe in ten you're looking pretty good looking pretty good I will be flying out in a little bit to snow country myself and I'm gonna have to get ready for that I'll see if I talked about everything I want to talk about yes I did yes I did alright so it seems to me that the biggest problems in the world are being addressed I think health care health care is still the one that seems like it's dangling out there that the Trump administration is working hard on reduced regulations and making things more market friendly and capitalism friendly which should lower prices but they need to package that up a lot better Oh a music biz injury yes I'm sorry so there's a tweet this morning from Kirsten Gillibrand Gillibrand Gillibrand US senator from New York and she actually said this this is her tweet from this morning it's almost it's almost hard to believe isn't it and she says this is Kirsten Gillibrand a sitting senator who says our future is : female intersectional powered by our belief in one another and we're just getting started our future is female now that might be true and you know I'm not I'm not going to argue with the the the fact of it were the non fact of it but are you allowed to say that are you allowed to be a u.s.
senator and say that men are going to be left behind because that's what she's saying she's not saying the future is equality she's saying the future is not men she might be right and it would be this kind of attitude that would make that happen but how do you keep your job after this seriously how do you go full sexist anti male as a u.s.
sitting senator with with no embarrassment whatsoever this this is you know that she is proudly saying that the future is women imagine if anybody said anything like that for any other category you know I usually don't like to do there well imagine if somebody else did it I hate that but this is one where you could put it into anything the future is fill it in with anything could you say that I don't think you could say that out loud and keep your job and Eddie in any field in any business if you worked in the corporate America could you keep your job after you said the future is female I don't know could you and she somebody said she has two boys I don't know about her personal life now it could be that what she means is that you know women will do better than they're doing now maybe something like that and of course I give her the 48 hour courtesy because this is one where there could be room for misinterpretation so if she'd like to clarify in the next 48 hours I will fully accept that clarification yes the 48 48 hour rule for clarification and or apology is in effect but this is really jaw-dropping is it feels like how do I say this it feels like I don't think women understand what it's like to be male just as men don't understand what it's like to be women and and just like nobody really understands what it's like to be anybody else so we'll start with that assumption that's true but one of the things that women really don't understand about men is that at least in the United States men do a lot to compensate for the fact that they feel like they have advantages in other words men make lots of allowances for the fact that they're you know there are advantages to be male you know I can I can pretty much go anywhere without being afraid I can you know I can be alone with anybody without being being afraid that something will happen there are probably some jobs I can get that harder for a woman to get so you know you have you have advantages and what would happen if it just turned into all-out war and I don't mean war in a violent way I mean what if men were allowed to just absolutely compete against women like without any were there any any hesitation without any obstacles without any social constraints no violence I'm not talking about that I'm just saying that all the you know all the social constraints come off and men just say alright it's us against you now so we're not even going to pretend we're on the same team anymore it's just us against you like what does that world look like do you want to live in that world that's the world you don't want to live in and I'd be a little bit afraid about trying to materialize that kind of world so Sharia yep anyway I don't have much else to say about that except it's a scary world and I got to go get ready for a trip and I will talk to you all later
didn't intent thing but
boop-boo-boo-boop Uncle Joe am always in
here quickly you've got the fastest
fingers in all of the planet hey Ryan
and Ray Brian Tyler do you all have your
coffee or the beverage of your choice
I'm very permissive with my simultaneous
hips get in here and enjoy with me the
simultaneous up it's time for coffee
with Scott Adams grab your mug your
stein your glass your cup your container
your chalice fill it with your favorite
beverage I like coffee
and join me for the simultaneous sip
mine is prescription strength I would
like to start off with a tweet from my
president I'm calling him my president
today because I like what he did in this
tweet and what he did that he's talking
about I will just read it to you if you
have not seen it this is a tweet from
this morning from President Donald J
Trump it's a two-parter he says one of
the very exciting things to come out of
my meeting with President Xi of China is
to promise to me to criminalize the sale
of deadly fentanyl coming into the
United States so far so good
it will now be considered a quote
controlled substance this could be a
game-changer on what is I'm now moving
to the second part of the tweet
considered to be the worst and most
dangerous addictive and deadly substance
of them all last year over 77,000 people
died from fentanyl that's a little bit
of an exaggeration but it's in the
ballpark if China cracks down on this
quote horror drug using the death
penalty did I say the death penalty
for distributors and pushers the results
will be incredible and so I drink to
effective government one that listens to
the people one that takes bold action to
get things done this is how it's
supposed to work now we're not done we
don't know if China is going to do what
it's supposed to do but so far it's
looking promising share a drink with me
now there was some reporting last day or
two in which people were saying hey how
come China is not reporting the good
news or the progress made in at the g20
whereas the United States is growing
that we got some things but China is
kind of silent on it my guess on that
this is just a guess because I live in
the real world is that nobody in China
was willing to write a story until they
were really really sure or President Xi
said and what he would be okay with them
printing cuz it's China and President Xi
may have just been busy he's got a lot
of he's got a big country to run he's
traveling around so yeah so they made
remarks today that apparently were were
positive but it would make sense to me
that they would not have an immediate
response because it's a complicated
topic you know who gave wire to promised
what who's doing what in terms of the
tariffs in the trade war so I think the
press in China probably just waited
because they couldn't afford to get it
wrong there you know you don't even want
to be ten percent wrong because it looks
like it's coming from Qi and and that
would give away their negotiating
position if they said oh yeah we're
giving away this was that could have
been embarrassing people could get in
trouble
so I think they were quiet just because
they needed to wait and make sure they
really knew what the what President Xi
had promised or not promised now
let's read some more of my so I've got
another tweet I tweeted around about
nuclear fusion
if you don't know nuclear fusion is that
long-promised technology that's always
promised but never arrives and the idea
is that instead of nuclear nuclear
fission which we have now which is
wasteful and dangerous in some ways that
you could create unlimited energy in a
fairly safe way through a different
technology called fusion now the reason
that we've never been able to create
these so-called fusion reactors is
because apparently the biggest
engineering challenge was the magnets so
the way the way they have to contain the
reaction is through enormous magnetic
fields because it's the only way to
contain it and apparently there have
been breakthroughs recently in materials
you know in the material science that
would create new types of magnetic
materials which at least on paper they
think they can they can engineer
something in the next three years to to
refine the engineering to the point
where it can reach this level of
magnetic strength to hold the reaction
in now that as I understand it is the
last of the engineering challenges and
on paper it's pretty close to working
meaning that it might be just some
fiddling with the engineering of it so
whereas it used to be science fiction
meaning somebody had to invent something
that didn't exist in order for a fusion
to work at this point it looks like
everything's been invented now I told
you this maybe a year or two ago that I
know somebody who's a major investor in
this space somebody who's actually
investing in fusion and one of the
smartest people you'll ever meet
his name but you know hugely successful
richer than richer than God type of
person who told me privately that now
wasn't wasn't involved it told me
privately that fusion is reduced now to
an engineering problem meaning that the
science has actually been solved if they
can get these magnets to actually work
in an actual engineered way so I would
liken it to building let's say somebody
decided to build a building that's twice
as tall as all current buildings well we
don't exactly know how to build that
building probably you know the
architects would have to play with the
engineers they'd have to adjust things
because you wouldn't do it exactly like
the existing buildings and just make it
taller you probably have to do extra
engineering to make it a strong enough
but we know how but you know if we
wanted to build a building that was
twice as tall as all existing buildings
it could be done it's an engineering
problem it's not a science problem so it
looks like fusion has been reduced to an
engineering problem and we might see
something in ten years now the fusion is
a big game-changer because what happens
when you have self-driving cars and
unlimited to cheap energy you see what
did you see all those people rioting in
France they were wearing the the green
jackets so those are the green jackets
that everybody who drives for a living
in front in France where so whether
they're truckers or a cab drivers or
whatever all of those people are going
to be unemployed all of them because the
self-driving trucks and cars with their
unlimited inexpensive energy will take
over that entire industry now here's one
of the one of the filters of the world
that not everybody shares I'm going to
tie together a few few points so we
talked about fusion will make you know
the driving industry just go
that between you know self-driving
vehicles plus unlimited energy people
are just going to be looking for other
jobs here's a point in economics that I
have not heard anybody say as clearly as
I'm going to say it right now
are they yellow vests somebody say when
yellow green a hundred years ago almost
all immigration was good because a
hundred years ago you didn't have
technology and if somebody came in and
they didn't have an education you can
still put a right to work you could
clear a little extra farmland and grow a
little extra stuff because now you have
more employees you also had not much in
the way of social services so if
somebody came in a hundred years ago
they added to the economy immediately
because they could do the work and we
needed workers there was no you know no
room constraints because the country was
still you know it just seemed to be like
there was lots of room and there were no
social services so nobody was paying
taxes to support them today the
situation is reversed because we're
right at the point where even the people
who already have jobs the people in
their yellow vests for example they're
not going to be employed in ten years
they won't have jobs in ten years at
least not same ones they have and the
people coming into the country will only
be able to do the types of jobs that
don't exist and they'll be coming into
countries with robust welfare systems
so everything that worked about the
economy economics of migration in the
past the fact that we didn't have a
welfare support system and the fact that
there were unlimited manual jobs this
completely reversed so now there's a
huge welfare system and all of those
jobs are going away in fact there might
be enough for the people who are already
here so I was checking my portfolio this
morning and I realized that if you're if
you're trying to invest for 20 years 10
or 20 years that and by the way I'm not
this is not investment advice so please
don't consider this any kind of
investment advice but the question you
have to ask yourself is what would be
the difference between countries that
control their immigration and those that
don't
for example if Europe continues treating
immigration the way it used to be a
hundred years ago which is that it's all
positive
it's good for the economy it's good for
the people it's just it's just all good
in in a situation where it will have
massive upheaval it will tax their
social systems and jobs will be so so it
was sparse in ten years at the lower end
it's going to be problems so you really
have to think about whether you would
want money in a country that was very
permissive immigration wise so and I'm
also going to predict that more
countries are going to want their own
Trump you know I'm watching the the
fentanyl news that we just talked about
and Canada has also a huge fentanyl
problem so their their problem is big
you know it's um it's smaller and total
numbers because of the population
differences but Canada didn't get this
done
Canada did not convince China to
criminalize fentanyl that was President
Trump and they're going to be the
ideally there will maybe benefit in some
ways from that so I think you're gonna
see and you see in France that I think
the people writing probably wish they
had a little bit more Trump and a little
less McCrone so you might see a big wave
of countries saying oh let's be more
like
I think that's coming now I I made a
bold prediction a bold prediction on
social media yesterday and I predicted
that we have reached peak climate change
alarm now I'm now saying we've reached
peak temperature that's a separate thing
I'm saying that in terms of our alarm
over it
I think we've peaked and here are the
things I'm looking at to make that
calculation number one what just what
just happened in France you saw that the
population that is going to take the
brunt of anything we do just decided
they're not going to they just decided
that they're not going to take it so I
think other countries are going to look
what happened in France and they're
going to say well you can make a law to
tax our gas but it's gonna look like
France when you do you know there's
going to be a riot so I think the
population has reached the the peak
tolerance for raising their taxes to
deal with something that they can't
quite feel and see and touch the way
they can their paycheck so that's the
first thing second thing I think you're
seeing is that every year that goes by
and we don't see a catastrophe that's
obviously a climate change-related thing
every time there's anything like a fire
or whatever the news will say it's
climate change but it's getting less and
less believable because the ocean isn't
going up every year so every year seems
pretty similar to the one before in
terms of our experience on it so there's
that although the news will keep talking
about any any situations where it does
look like it's climate change but maybe
the most important one is this latest
climate report that showed that the
biggest risk is a 10% less GDP over 80
years than it could have been so instead
of the GDP going this higher this much
higher
it's gonna go only this much higher in
other words we won't even notice it so
the most scary and credible current
numbers about climate change tell us
that looks like we can handle that and
then you add on top of that fusion and
you add on top of it every other
technology that will have some some some
role in this and it's feeling like it's
feeling like closer to solved then dire
that's what it feels like to me and I'm
not sure I would even said that a month
ago it took I was actually really scared
until the latest climate report scared
in the sense that it would seem like a
real danger we had to worry about
and then the climate report came out and
it was designed to scare us and did
exactly the opposite and said cost a
little money will just get better air
conditioning yeah I told you that
Richard Branson is involved with some
kind of a three billion dollar you know
prize for developing the best new kind
of air conditioning so if you have the
best kind of new air conditioning in ten
years and you've got better economies
because things are just improving every
year and you've got fusion maybe in ten
you're looking pretty good looking
pretty good I will be flying out in a
little bit to snow country myself and
I'm gonna have to get ready for that
I'll see if I talked about everything I
want to talk about yes I did yes I did
alright so it seems to me that the
biggest problems in the world are being
addressed I think health care health
care is still the one that seems like
it's dangling out there that the Trump
administration is working hard on
reduced
regulations and making things more
market friendly and capitalism friendly
which should lower prices but they need
to package that up a lot better
Oh a music biz injury yes I'm sorry so
there's a tweet this morning from
Kirsten Gillibrand Gillibrand Gillibrand
US senator from New York and she
actually said this this is her tweet
from this morning it's almost it's
almost hard to believe isn't it and she
says this is Kirsten Gillibrand a
sitting senator who says our future is :
female intersectional powered by our
belief in one another and we're just
getting started
our future is female now that might be
true and you know I'm not I'm not going
to argue with the the the fact of it
were the non fact of it but are you
allowed to say that are you allowed to
be a u.s. senator and say that men are
going to be left behind because that's
what she's saying she's not saying the
future is equality she's saying the
future is not men she might be right and
it would be this kind of attitude that
would make that happen but how do you
keep your job after this seriously how
do you go full sexist anti male as a
u.s. sitting senator with with no
embarrassment whatsoever this this is
you know that she is proudly saying that
the future is women imagine if anybody
said anything like that for any other
category you know I usually don't like
to do there well imagine if somebody
else did it I hate that but this is one
where you could put it into anything
the future is fill it in with anything
could you say that I don't think you
could say that out loud and keep your
job and Eddie in any field in any
business if you worked in the corporate
America could you keep your job after
you said the future is female I don't
know could you and she somebody said she
has two boys I don't know about her
personal life now it could be that what
she means is that you know women will do
better than they're doing now maybe
something like that and of course I give
her the 48 hour courtesy because this is
one where there could be room for
misinterpretation
so if she'd like to clarify in the next
48 hours I will fully accept that
clarification yes the 48 48 hour rule
for clarification and or apology is in
effect but this is really jaw-dropping
is it feels like how do I say this it
feels like I don't think women
understand what it's like to be male
just as men don't understand what it's
like to be women and and just like
nobody really understands what it's like
to be anybody else so we'll start with
that assumption that's true but one of
the things that women really don't
understand about men is that at least in
the United States men do a lot to
compensate for the fact that they feel
like they have advantages in other words
men make lots of allowances for the fact
that they're you know there are
advantages to be male you know I can I
can pretty much go anywhere without
being afraid I can you know I can be
alone with anybody without being being
afraid that something will happen there
are probably some jobs I can get that
harder for a woman to get so you know
you have you have advantages and what
would happen if it just turned into
all-out war and I don't mean war in a
violent way I mean what if men were
allowed to just absolutely compete
against women like without any were
there any any hesitation without any
obstacles without any social constraints
no violence I'm not talking about that
I'm just saying that all the you know
all the social constraints come off and
men just say alright it's us against you
now so we're not even going to pretend
we're on the same team anymore it's just
us against you like what does that world
look like do you want to live in that
world
that's the world you don't want to live
in and I'd be a little bit afraid about
trying to materialize that kind of world
so Sharia yep anyway I don't have much
else to say about that except it's a
scary world and I got to go
get ready for a trip and I will talk to
you all later
