Beau Biden upon well above or below Joanne you were on it. You must have your coffee ready and your finger poised to push the button I appreciate your good attitude: Tyler Brown, hello, Dave for Prez, hello, Dale, Zada, real name, hey everybody! It's time for coffee with Scott Adams. Although there is sad news today, there's lots of news today so will

talk more about the less sad stuff, but before we do, you know what it's time for it's time for coffee with Scott Adams. If you have your copier mug your glass, your Stein, your container for beverages fill it up with your favorite liquid's uh. I prefer coffee and shall we enjoy the simultaneous hip Somebody said: is it me or is the camera sideways? The answer is correct. Well, there are so many things to talk about. Uh will start The big news there's another shooting that doesn't people are dead at a bar. We don't know about it, except that the perpetrator had a long trench coat and a ski mask and guns.

The sounds to be a slightly more likely to be a loner who has been bullied in some way. Even at twenty nine simply said they thought it was twenty nine, but it seems like a loner who got bullied a little bit more than it seems like a political act, but we don't know. So that's not a prediction. That's just a state of non, lunch at the moment. So let's say: let's wait for developments on that, but will talk about other things: politics, for example. Let's talk about Jim Acosta and the and the press

Event, so I'm sure by now you've all seen a million videos of Jim Acosta and he's at the president's so press conference, and he keeps talking the president keeps telling him to to stop talking and give the microphone up, but he resistant when the intern came and tried to take it away. Now the debate that I'm watching online about did he assault Salter or did he toucher or did he slap her arm and all that stuff? It's for I need to talk about that if you're doing it for entertainment and I suppose, if you're doing it for a the

and with the other side because of Corey Lewandowski years ago, if you do it in for that, I'm not going to stop you because that's part of the game, but I think I think the most useful frame for looking at the whole press event is like professional wrestling, and I'm going to do what none of you did. I'm going to give Jim Acosta more credit than the rest of you so what one of the things that made president Trump so successful is that he successfully combines theater with politics and he makes he makes politics stronger. In his case, he makes his position stronger

by taking what has to be considered a reality. Tv type of theatrical sensibility through the boring job six and when he combines it just makes some super powerful. So it's okay to say that about the president that he takes theater. He matches it with politics and he makes those two things work better together, and that makes him. Successful! That's what I've been telling you about the president for years now, let's look at Jim Acosta, Jim Acosta you've been saying he's: showboating he's crossing the line, yeah he's doing all of those things, but he's also taking theater and come. With what we used to think of as news to make it more powerful,

the reason we're talking about Jim Acosta is a. He combines, theater with the news successfully, because you're talking about Jim Acosta every person knows his name he's the most famous news person now, probably right he is the is the single most famous new this person in the world because he successfully combined theater with news. Now you can hate it. You can not like it because of what it does it. The fake news, etc, you can find lots of reasons not to like it. For the same, isn't, so you can find lots of reasons not to like President Trump's combining theater with politics successfully. If you don't like his politics and you don't like the fact that the successful But the truth is the CNN has somewhat to publicly abandoned the just a news organization

stance so he's not really that far out of out of his let's say who is not that far out of his approved channel so the attendant knows that they work for ratings, their bosses said Cpas. Leanne in public. He said if we don't talk about Trump are ratings plunge, so the head of CNN actually said that we've tried not talking about Trump, but the ratings go down, We talk about Trump now, obviously, since there they have built an anti trump audience talking about Trump means talking crap about Trump so CNN, doesn't pretend what to be something. It isn't really. I mean in a professional, wrestler kind of way they do so when you

that President Trump going hard at Jim Acosta in public. You should see this as two people who understand theater, who are both using his successfully. The president is using it in his way the cost, is using it in his way. So whatever else you want to say about Jim Acosta, I won't talk you out of it. Your opinion is your opinion, but I'm tell yeah you're, seeing him to successfully use President Trump's technique, which I have praised for two years and I'm not going to change my mind just because someone else is using the technique. Probably not what you wanted to hear

yesterday, I saw a a tweet where somebody alleged that they would use their Alexa. I have to be careful because when I say that my Alexa comes on and they were, they were saying who is Jim car stuff and in the tweet you could hear somebody that looked like it was the election system, look like or sounded like it was saying that he was a fake, a journalist, and I saw that I said that's not real, I had I was reading it while I was in the same room with my own. I I could. I want to stop saying the word, because it activates my system, a l e x. I.

So I thought well I'll, ask mine and see if it says the same thing. So I did so. I said Alexa who is Jim Acosta Amelia James, Jim Acosta is an american journalist who is the chief White House, correspondent for Alexa shut up uh, so when I first did it It actually said that Jim Acosta is a fake journalist that was actually on Alexa, and I I checked again this morning and then it you probably couldn't hear it, but they've removed that now so I don't know who got to it, but it was a good prank, so hats off to whoever whoever hacked it and and made that change was pretty funny. I didn't think it was real. But it was real. So that's that's enough for that, and then the question of whether Costa should have been banned and having his,

White House credentials removed, I would say, that's appropriate, but it's also part of the political theater, and if you argue about whether he assaulted the intern, he touched her didn't touch I don't think any of that matters yeah. It might be fun to talk about it, but none of that matters. Here's what matters a customer was in the president's house this. Actually and the President of the United States, whose job it was to inform the public and to give all of the press sixty whatever people in their time to ask questions the thought that this one person had asked all the questions he needed to ask, and so he was he was trying to move on to me. The only the only question

is, did Jim Acosta do what the President asked him to do in the president's own house, and the answer is now so the President banned him from his house. I don't see how you could possibly argue with that. The president of the United States in his own house. You know essentially his own house. To do with the President asked you to do. Yes, the context is trying to inform people trying to give everybody a chance. So that's that's really the only thing that has to be said about that. There was only one person who was in charge. And that person you have made sure you knew he was in charge. I have no problem with that. Alright, let's talk about Jeff sessions

So one of the things that I haven't heard somebody say explicitly- maybe somebody did is that there could have been no more perfect timing for the dismissal of Jeff sessions. Timing was perfect. It is because it can so close to the the election, because, first of all it took all of that election talked over the president. It was losing support or whatever it took all the attention on to Jeff sessions, which was brilliant, but I've argued that the day after that election might be what I call peak bipartisanship and the words, it might be the day the one day when the opposition was feeling good about themselves, because I just won the house. So in a sense you know if the the the country is this far apart,

for a moment. It was a little less apart because the winners, the winners of the of the house, we're feeling like they made some progress. Probably you know politics will pull things apart again, but at the moment I'll just block anybody who uses that word. But at the moment it looks like yeah. It was a perfect timing to do it because they change the conversation and that. Was well. Let me let me explain, explain that a little better in a moment here, but the Whitaker, the guy, coming in the opposition to Trump, is saying he should recuse himself, because when he was appointed he wrote some things about how Muller should have his funding cuts and how his his scope should be limited to what is coping

to which I say without the benefit of any legal training. I ask you the following question: should you recuse yourself, for agreeing with your own boss, 'cause. That's what people are asking him to do: they're, saying: hey Whitaker, You seem to agree with your boss and you're on the same page. You've got to recuse yourself, to which I say I don't think I know what boss means if Boston mean hiring people who will agree with you, what the hell does it mean does boss I you randomly hire people. Does it mean you hire People you know will not do what you want. If you get hire somebody who agrees with you. What the hell can you do as a boss, so it's silly, the recusal is even in the Conversa.

And I think I think the Democrats are only doing it because they they know that the public can't tell the difference. They can't tell the difference between a sitting. Judge, for example, who has to have the appearance. Of impartiality versus somebody who is just being hired for a job and they happen to agree with their boss. That's pretty pretty harmless uh. Now. The other interesting thing about this is that getting rid of Jeff sessions as the weed stocks showed yesterday when they went up. Probably paves away, for the federal government to get out of the the weed business, in other words, for the federal government to decriminalize or otherwise step out of that question it would be. Are you? Are you ready for this? It's what I call the new ceo.

The new CEO play when there's a brand new ceo. The first thing they should do is something that really sets the tone. You notice that pence and Trump did that as soon as they were elected and before they'd even been side in they started traveling to forward one to carrier, and they really made a big deal before they were even signed. Them and doing it early is the the big part of the the thing they did. A big public, obvious visual thing that was the the sort of their brand and that brand is carried them. They've been the jobs fight for jobs brand since then, so the thing you do on day, one matters more than the thing you do on day: twenty, that's just how it works. 'cause first, tions matter so now that we have a new a new Congress in the sense, because we have a new balance of power,

It's sort of a new ceo opportunity again for President Trump so what is he do? He says congradulations to Nancy Pelosi. I think you deserve being the speaker. Hi NU, CO play is setting the tone he's setting the tone in a way that will help in the future, but even other than that getting red getting rid of sessions. Sessions, is a hard nose on immigration. He's a hard nose on weed and weed is the perfect first thing to do I don't know if it's going to happen by Christmas, but it would be great Christmas present. I can imagine that the president would maybe find Somebody on the left, two, partner with him to simply make an announcement that says, look in the in the the bipartisanship there's nobody on the left and nobody on the right who is going to

agree with what we say, which is let the states work it out because the people on the rights are going to say it's a states issue. It just doesn't need to be a federal government problem. Let the states working out The people on the left are more likely to say it should be illegal anyway, so there's an opportunity here for the president to do a a new seo move first, second time, because it's a new government. It's almost like he has a new job His new job is to be president of a split Congress and if he did something that showed bipartisanship right out of the chute faster than you could do, an infrastructure bill right. Anything else he does is bipartisan is going to take awhile, but he could probably make a dent in we'd just buy a proclamation and just say alright bipartisan, let's get let's get some by party

stuff going here. So that might happen we'll see, because the simulation that we live in keeps serving up one interesting story. After another, Ruth Bader Ginsburg apparently felt she's age. Eighty five and broke a few ribs. This is not her first brush with health problems. She said cancer a few times, she's fallen before she said I think, a heart issue with a stent, so she's, eighty five and she fell and she's probably to the point where it's just sort of dangerous. Do her job and we don't know how long she's going to stay in her job. I hope she heals. I hope she does well, but there's not much to say about that. Yet good she could just go on.

Another five years. You never know, but the news just keeps serving us up, keep serving us up new things to look. Now I'm going to go to the White Board here to defend something I said after the midterms. What I said was I thought that the national temperature would come down because there's a shared power, my critics, of which there are many, Came on to Twitter to say how wrong you are it's time for you to eat Crow Adams, because you said the temperature would go down, but here's a tweet of people who have gathered some anti five people they've gathered. So in the end you can see it in the comments. Are we to

Do you were wrong? No I'm not wrong, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna tell you why you're wrong to think I'm wrong in a minute. So it is true that there are some organized groups. This seemed to be organizing to protest one throwing up or another one of them shockingly and disturbingly had Tucker Carlson's home address when he wasn't home, but his wife was he's, got four kids. I don't know if the kids were home, I don't think they were, but think about that a crowd gathered in front of his house, while his wife, his in the pantry, not knowing if they were trying to command there were some dangerous sounding talk this.

Get over here. Imagine how scary that was. That is seriously inappropriate, but how many people were in that group? You have to make a distinction between the professional protesters, of which I think these were. These are the people who sort of job is protesting. You know they're organized, as a part of a group. They can't wait for the next protest right. Those people may protest more than ever so my prediction about the national. Temperature is about voters about ordinary people. So I'm Double down on my prediction that the temperature for ordinary people not not professional protesters, not people who are, a now people have an organization with the costumes, so I'm not talking about the costumed professional protesters

may be more or less, and probably more so. I agree with you on that and the Tucker Carlson thing looked like professionals making a political point very, very different from the public. Let's talk about the public and let's go to the whiteboard to make my case. I believe there is a three legged stool of trump hatred. The three primaries so people hate about Trump are accusations of he's crazy. Accusations of he's a racist accusations of he's a strongman dictator and you need that whole stool. Be as mad as as you could be, and you notice that it's kind of, like lack all every time one of these legs gets sort of just and by evidence somebody yeah. Well he's not one of these, but he certainly wanted these. Well he's not one of these, but he certainly wanted these. Did you say

he's not one of these. Well, you make a good point, but he certainly one of these. So you need all three legs, so people can bounce back and forth leg to leg and still have at a wobbly stool. But my point is this: that, after the after the house went to the Democrats, there was this huge. Check on the president's power, at least in the way that the public thinks about it. So if the president tried to something and uses his friendly set up to were mostly republican to get his way. They would now be prevented, not just potentially, by a Supreme court, which now leans his way so that wasn't really the protection that people needed, but now they have a friendly how's. The opposition to Trump has a friendly house, so I would argue. That the dictator leg went away this week,

So if you were just a regular voter again, I'm not not talking about a costumed he'd protesters like the ones who went to Tucker Carlson's house and by the way should go to jail. In my opinion surrounding the House of Tucker, Carlson's, wife and saying you know, I'm sure they were on this property, I'm sure they were saying threatening things that should be jail time all right. I hope that I hope that it's jail time, it's very, very serious, and so we you know we should never make light of that, but well for the regular people, the people who are not costume to role players. They just saw one of these legs go away. They just saw the. President Trump make any law he wants. It will absolutely be stopped by Congress, so the entire.

Dictator thing, just sort of went away by an act of democracy. The founders have a system. You know the founders of this country developed a system where, when it gets out of balance, it finds balance how many times throughout history, as the country gotten out of balance and then the next election we, American belts is the most common thing that happens in this country. So we were definitely a little out of balance. Nobody saw the low was a nobody, because I saw it, but people did not see that the president would get elected and also have two houses and and a super, poor. On his side. People didn't see that plus a lot of governors, so when it happened, the country got way out of balance to the right in terms of power, and it just took a call for to get back in balance, so I would argue that the Trump is a dictator.

Leg of the stool is gone. And you saw him- you saw the president putting a nail in that. When he went in front of the public and said he didn't just say my side LAS, The president, the United States, said regulations you for wealth in Nancy. Pelosi deserves to be the leader, his biggest, certainly his biggest. You know, name brand critic. He just Prazer for her good work in front of the you're in front of the world and said she deserves our position, and I hope so I can work with her, not very dictator ish, but this crazy leg. What about that? We just watched the president of the United States do rally after rally

after rally, and then we watched him do eighty seven minutes in front of the press. Now, of course it was the Jim Acosta stuff in the you know the contentiousness with the press, but did any of that look. Crazy. Did you see any craziness in all of that public exposure, crazy people can't really hide it that well, can they? If believe he was crazy. He has used continuous exposure and operating at very highest level, because even his critics will say

You know those rallies they're, really good. He is really good in from the public. It would be hard to be crazy and to be that good in public that consistently in it is seven minutes the public that the president ranged from how many topics to be covered. He covered all kinds of topics and and he talked about them. He said completely rational things that you would want him to say, especially if you're a supporter. None of it is that would be crazy, none of it. There wasn't a, single thing. He said in eighty seven minutes in front of the public operate

without a net right, there's no editing, there's no editing. What's the first thing you do, if you think your boss, the President United States, is crazy. If you were, if you were handling of what's the first thing, you do. The first thing you do is you say: don't go I don't give a press conference just just say you don't do That will will talk to the press for it. So obviously his staff doesn't think there's a problem and he's still the best person on camera of the entire administration and not even close so I would argue that the crazy leg they're still there a little bit, but it's really weakened because the the way he treated the the loss, if you can call it that of the house and the fact that he's been in public so much lately and operating at the highest level and not a certain

full slip is that there is not one thing. He said in all of those public appearances ranging across all kinds of topics, not a single thing that his enemy press called out and said. I don't know when he said that one thing that sounded will get rid of this person Sounded wrong, so I think when you saw the press conference, what was the one thing that the press wanted to ask him? They wanted to ask him about this leg do you know why they wanted to ask him about this leg and not that one's gone? They didn't want to ask him about the leg. That's already gone 'cause, it's already and they didn't want to ask him about crazy because

all the evidence was in the other direction. It's all they had left. You could see almost a desperation in the room and the the President yeah got got a little testy there when they were going after this last illusion. So let me reiterate for those you say: Scott you're wrong. The national temperature has gone up. Just look at the people protesting, I say most,

Those protests were probably already planned because it takes awhile to get a good protests going. These are people costumed paid an organized for political purposes. It has nothing to do with the mood of the country. Nt five is not the mood of the country they're, a group that has a political political agenda and and protesting public seems to work for so they do more of it all right Soros. So, let's

well George Soros, because apparently, if your trump supporter, you can't leave him out of any conversation, you know that I've been asking questions about. Can you explain to me why somebody says somebody just said the were costumes protesters? Well, I'm not defending the protesters. I'm saying they're, not representative of the mood of the voters. They are their own thing. That's all I'm saying uh yeah. So I'm just going to summarize my Soros opinion for those who haven't seen it Soros, does fund groups who who play on identity politics so in that sense he's funding something that you may consider harmful for the world, but a lot of people find them it's the entire le.

Is on the same side, so picking out this one guy who finds them, you could say he is a little more impactful than other people. Maybe, but I'm not sure, is the big story. I think we like to pick on him because he's a visual you know he's a he's, a single sort of yeah, eight somebody said he's like a bond villain. If, if you had a different personality and persona, I think he would be treated differently all right, yeah somebody says I don't think Soros's a micro manager. That is correct. I don't believe Soros.

Is you know, managing individual protests. Alright, is there anything else going on? We need to talk about. Oh, let's talk about the president's response to being asked about the word nationalist and the President said: that's a racist question. Was that a good response to say that's a racist quest, I have to tell you. I enjoyed it from an entertainment standpoint. I enjoyed that. He did that now the my logical facility said? Well, what do you mean as a racist comment? It's a you know it's a it's, not mine, it's not what a professional journalist should be doing. Certainly it wasn't like a legitimate news question, so it wasn't a legitimate question, but

he did with it by going on the offense I kinda liked because he didn't play defense. I can likely they didn't play defense. He played offense now the logic used to say that It was a racist question, I'm not sure all the all the parts that fit together logically, but it was still perfect because the the complaints against him have the same character, meaning they don't quite logically makes sense, but they sort of feel like they do. If all that the the logic behind the criticisms of the president don't completely fit together, but they just sort of feel like they might right, that's the entire logic. So when he accused her of asking a racist question, I had exactly the same experience, which is well not quite logically, a racist, but it sure felt like it

So he basically gave them back a nice dose of what they've been piling on him for four years and I have to admit I enjoyed the. I enjoyed the theater of it, the the the Judo of it. I enjoyed the the cleverness of the response M and I think you sold it with some. What would you call at this sincerity, in other words when he said that, if felt like, you felt that he felt like you. What would you say, I'm going to put words in his mouth, which it was probably dangerous? Maybe I shouldn't do that when we put my understanding. Was that reason he said it was a racist question is because it was an anti white question, If he had said that's anti white, it would have been the worst response. Anybody ever said about anything cousin.

Country you're not really allowed to say anything is anti white, because if you do say that you're automatically branded racist. It's as if fuse said, the n word. You know by By societal evolution, we've come to the point where defending white people in a in a country such as the United States would automatically label you as a racist in this country. Again logic isn't part of any of this. You know so there there's no logical connection with any of this, so she said White Nationalist now she said nationalist and then she later clarified what she meant by as big.

As there are such things as white nationalist, so I loved his response, but I'm not gonna say it's a love, logical response. It is exactly like the way he's been treated, and so that was one because I have to force them to wrestle with the non logic of it. In a way that we haven't seen them wrestle with their own non logic. So that was wonderful. Um. Yeah, if you're looking at the the videos of Acosta, if you're seeing them in slow motion, they look different. If you seeing them from this angle, they look different people are calling and saying it's the Yanni in Laurel situation, where people are saying what they want to say. I I all that stuff is fun, but whatever happened, you know

her hard. He touched her or didn't touch her. It's not really the story because it was trivial no matter what it was in terms of the contact. What mattered was the president? The United States asked him to stand down in the president's house, to play by the rules that everyone else was playing by and he chose not to that's. The only question question was: did he do with the president? in a reasonable way, so that other people could could have their freedom of press. That's the whole question, so I think the White House played a cleverly and appropriately and he deserves his band, but do not feel sorry for Jim Acosta. He is involved in the theater, not news and he's gay

the attention that you get when you yeah right. So I I'm gonna tell you that Jim Acosta played it right in terms of the theater he's trying to to play with you. Did he? I think he he, a good job of advancing his career, helping CNN with the ratings, and that was that's what he was trying to do. I can not to fall to success if somebody is trying to do something very specifically and they succeed,

which she did yeah. You can just like a mall. You want like a like a wrestling villain. He's he's like a wrestling villainous me, but he succeeded. I'm not ashamed. I'm just saying you succeed. All right does anything else. We can talk about it. Somebody saying there his narcissistic. He might be nurses sister, but I don't think you could tell it from this. What you can tell from this event is a Jim Acosta.

Understands the the theater added to something like the news makes it a different animal. I think he understands that, like other people don't understand, but I could be wrong. Maybe he's just acting on impulse, that's possible, but it sure looks like he knows what he's doing he must've read when vaguely. Maybe so all right

The shooting it out the shooting we don't know enough about, so what we have to wait and see about the shooting and we talked about talker fires, a gate. I don't have anything to say about that. All right, I think we're done here, will check the news, find out more about the shooter and, let me say one more thing, so the president said when he was asked about Saudi Arabia and the murder of because show he and the turkish embassy- and I forget the president's exact words, but they were something like he was going to have a strong

a statement on that coming up. So this or worse that fact, so there was something strong coming up about the Saudi Arabia situation. I think that might be foreshadowing. It may be optimistic, but here's what I think it could be, that the murder of a show game puts the Saudis and a flexible situation in which, maybe, if other people are being flexible at the same time, there could be something like a Middle EAST. Peace still growing. So don't be surprised if the next twelve months sees something like a Middle EAST peace deal in which Saudi Arabia's role, and that is more productive than you would have thought that,

and that might be what Saudi Arabia needs to do to get back on the right side of history here so uh. That's I'm not sure I'd make that a prediction, but if it happens, we're going to look back at that statement and say: oh I get it he is the Saudi Arabia thing, which was a tragedy to find some kind of negotiating advantage to get them to be a little more flexible, maybe with just money that might be just how much money they they cough up, but probably a positive thing, all right. That's all! For now I'll talk to you all later