Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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ng his mind but it doesn't matter. No it doesn't matter what his reason is. If he didn't have those reasons he would have made up another reason because one thing he's not going to do is go against the president while he's running for his own re-election and it's a razor thin. Lindsey Graham wants to get elected. Our system allows him to do that, right? It is not, this is just my personal opinion…

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revolution and violence. They say it directly.

Now given that violence and revolution are literally on the table these Democrat senators saying that nothing is off the table basically have threatened violence against, here's the key part, against you and me. Our politicians have actually threatened the public. They haven't threatened just Trump. And I'm not saying it's because you're a Trump supporter necessarily. I'm saying that they've threatened the public. The public. Because this is not exactly a limited threat. It's not a we'll do anything to stop President Trump. They literally said nothing is off the table in the context of violence and people making death threats right and left. This is really dangerous stuff.

So I think that this is a tremendous advantage for Republicans because they're creating a situation where Democrats feel like they want to win and they have their concerns and they're quite worked up but they've framed it as Republicans are really in trouble, like physically in trouble. If that doesn't get you to the voting booth or to mail in your vote I don't know what will. But it feels like a gigantic error on the part of the Democrats.

Here, listen to the sort of things that people are saying. This is Rae Sunny. I think she's, I don't want to judge people's ethnicity from their profile picture but not a white woman let's say. I won't say what she is but probably does not identify as a white one would be fair to say. And she tweeted this: Respectfully white men got us into this. I don't know what this is. And it frustrates me endlessly that white men voted Trump in and somehow get away scot-free as if because their racism and selfishness is a given w

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e don't have to drag them. Drag the 53 percent and the 62 percent. What does drag them mean? I mean actually like tie them to the back of the car and drag them? Does it mean hurt them? What does drag them mean? If you could tweet in public specifically against an entire ethnicity and gender, white men, and your tweet doesn't get taken down, you don't lose your job, I don't know. I think she's a c…

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