Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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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 h…

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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 precedented. Trump did so well — and this is not, I don't think this is an exaggeration, is it? You know, listen to it, let it settle in, and then you tell me if I'm exaggerating. I don't think I am. Trump did so well in foreign affairs that it doesn't need to be part of the conversation. I think that's what's happening right in front of us.

This is like the most incredible endorsement of a sitting president I've ever seen. You don't need to talk about it. He took ISIS from, honestly, it was one of the biggest things I worried about, to nothing. He took the threat of China, which is still a big thing, and now I feel like it's at least competently being handled in the right way. You don't know how things are going to turn out, but it looks like it's being competently handled in the right way for the first time. Look at the Middle East. I mean, it's crazy. The Middle East has never looked this good. It's just crazy. Look at our trade deals that have been completed. The NAFTA replacement deal, even the critics say, okay, I gotta admit that's better than NAFTA. Look at the South Korea deal, the Japan trade deal. I feel like Trump ran the table on foreign affairs. There's just nothing left to talk about.

The only thing left to talk about is why Biden is so bad at it, and why he's bad at it at the moment because of the laptop story. We'll talk about that in a minute. So I think they should just cancel the debate. I think if your debate doesn't want to cover half of the president's job because he did such a good job there's nothing to talk about, maybe you don't need a debate. But I guess they'll have it.

All the people who have believed that the news for the last four years was real are gonna have a real surprise if Trump wins. And I'm going to tell you that it's looking like that pretty strongly at the moment. What is going to happen to all these people who were already in Trump derangement syndrome, and then they experienced four years in which their impression of what was happening for those four years — very separate from maybe what your impression was — but their impression was that they watched a disaster unfold. And it's a disaster of unprecedented historical size. That what Trump did to the country, according to their little bubble view, was so obviously destructive in a gigantic, clear way that there's certainly no way that he could win reelection. And duh. And by the way, the New York Times poll has them down by nine nationally. Nobody wins if they're down by nine a few weeks before the election.

So not only is it obvious he's, according to their little bubble reality, the worst disaster of a presidency ever in the history of the world, and he's way behind in the polls, what happens if he wins? Because it looks like he's going to win. In fact, it really looks like that. In fact, I'd be pretty surprised if he didn't, honestly. I mean, I woul

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d be genuinely surprised as of today. Now, of course, anything could change in the next couple weeks, right? But as of today, I'd be amazed if he lost. Because in my world the news has been fake for a full four years, so I don't take any of this seriously. And in my world the polls are obviously fake. Now, not every poll, because the Trafalgar guys were close in 2016, probably they're close again.…

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