Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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f you find no evidence of a weapon and you find no evidence of anybody behind the attacks, what does that tell you? Obviously everybody. Everybody. That's right. If there's no evidence, it's Russia. I think we've learned that. We learned it with Biden's laptops, because when they looked for evidence of who was behind it, there was none. What's that tell you? That's right, Putin. So if you find a…

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are about two and a half pages maximum. I don't know about you. How many pages could you get about your personal sex life? I'm thinking two and a half pages. But Galen, or Jizz Lane, has 418 pages, and I think we can all be impressed by that, because that's some serious activity there.

And here's the question I ask. I understand that she's being accused of horrible crimes. As far as I know, she has not been convicted of any horrible crimes. Am I right? She has not been convicted of any crimes. But is she not being punished already? Don't we usually punish people after they're convicted? Because if you were to release 418 pages of my personal sexual life, well, first of all, I'd be pretty proud about that, I think, because, you know, 418 pages, pretty impressive. But how is that right? Don't get lost in the fact that Epstein was a monster. Ghislaine was a monster. We all agree on that. We stipulate she's probably a monster. All indications. But is it our system that we punish them before they're found guilty in a court of law? In what way is this okay? How is it okay to release this private information before she's found guilty? I get that maybe there's some legal technicality or a public interest, but really, really, I feel like there's something terribly wrong with this, even if it turns out to be legal. And again, I'm not defending Jizz Lane, but I wouldn't want that standard applied to anybody else, would you?

Trump has been ramping up his campaign. He's going to do more events toward the end of the election cycle than ever before. So he's got more energy, more activity, at the same time that Joe Biden is basically hiding. He put the lid on. And so I tweeted, figuratively speaking, and this won't be funny to all of you, you have to have a certain background, but it seems that Trump is smoking Biden's lid at the same time that he's simultaneously eating Biden's lunch. That's right. He's smoking his lid while eating his lunch. I'm just proud of that pun, and I thought I'd share it with you. You don't need to remember it.

We've got the debate tonight. Big debate. Everybody going to watch the debate. I'll tell you, Trump has made politics entertaining in a way that we're really, really going to miss whenever he leaves office. And I hope that, you know, whatever day that is that Trump leaves office, I hope he doesn't leave the public stage, because we still need a certain amount of Trumpiness just to be interested. I don't know that I could get so interested in court packing and any of this other stuff if Trump wasn't part of the story.

So the debate will be tonight. The ratings will be huge, huge, I say. And of course the big debate is that the Trump campaign wants the questions to include foreign policy, and apparently that's not going to happen. There's some disagreement about whether that was ever part of the plan or not. But can somebody do a fact check on me? Would that mean that none of the debates involved foreign policy? Right? I don't know what you call the town halls, but we would have no debate on foreign policy. Correct me if I'm wrong, but something like 50% of a president's job is foreign policy, right? Depends how you count it, but at least half of the job conceptually is foreign policy. How do you not have a debate on that? How is that not even part of the mix?

Well, I have the answer for you. Do you know why it's not part of the debate? Because what you're thinking is, no, no, that would expose Biden to the questions about Hunter's laptop. That's why. You know the fix is in. Well, that might be part of it. I would certainly think that that's part of the decision. We do live in a world where bias is so baked into

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every part of everything that you have to think that's part of the decision. But here's the more impressive part that you can kind of miss because you're focusing on the laptop story. And it goes like this. How would you like to be running against an incumbent president who had done so well in foreign affairs that it doesn't need to be part of the debate? Think about that. Talk about unfreaking p…

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