Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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nemy. If you take them out of the mix everything looks different. Here's a question for you. I have not seen any reporting yet on which red states or actually red cities are rioting. Does anybody have any statistics on Republican controlled cities? Are there any? I don't know. Is there even a Republican-controlled city anywhere? Is that even a thing? Are there any Republican-controlled cities tha…

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it being that it's the most important thing in the news. Huh. Well I guess I'll have to look that up. I'm not going to say any more about it until I confirm it's true.

So somebody says Newsweek is reporting it, NBC and Wall Street Journal. Okay so it's not headline news is it? Are you seeing anybody reporting as a headline or is everybody reporting it as somewhere down in a long story? It's just a word. All right there are two autopsies. TMZ reported it then it's probably true.

You know what's weird is that follow TMZ as the standard and be surprised how often it's true. If I say I saw some news on TMZ what's your first reaction? Oh it's probably like the National Enquirer, right? And you're thinking well it could be something that's true but it could be something they just totally made up. That might be your first impression because TMZ is sort of in that entertainment gossipy realm but it's the opposite. I've told you this story before. There was once some fake news about me and it was big headlines for a while. I won't go into it but it was just fake news and TMZ is the only outlet that called me at home to ask me if it was true. Nobody else asked. They're the only ones who asked me if it was true and then I told them the story and then they said oh okay wasn't true and then they didn't run the story on it. So watch how often TMZ is the most accurate news source because they actually don't have, apparently they don't have any motive to make up news because their news is already interesting, right? So TMZ doesn't have to make up news because the only news that they cover is stuff that's interesting no matter what it is. So they end up just by an accident of what their business model is, by accident they end up being the most reliable source of news because they're the only ones who don't have any reason to make up news because it's already interesting or else it wouldn't be in TMZ.

All right so enough of you are confirming the fentanyl story so I said this yesterday in a special video but some of you only watched the morning ones so I'll repeat it. Everything you know about the George Floyd story you have to reassess and here's why. On day one you said to yourself this is obviously murder. I watched it with my own eyes on video and I watched as this white cop put his knee on a black man who was clearly already subdued and kept it there until that man died. We all watched that. Now you say to yourself w

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hat are the odds that George Floyd coincidentally died just by coincidence at exactly the same time he was being strangled by a cop? And so your common sense says well let me do the odds. The odds of somebody dying by coincidence exactly at the same time they're being strangled is about zero. So therefore it was the strangulation, the knee, that killed him. Common sense, logic, smart people follow…

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