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tever you think is manageable to something that isn't manageable in just a week, right? And then of course how do you ignore the fact, as the comments are saying, that we have 11 million or however many — 25 million, you know, people who are undocumented in this country? That's a big thing now. Whether you call that a problem or not I think does depend on what media you're looking at. But in terms…

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Now you can say to yourself but the military general has to comply with an order from the commander-in-chief. So therefore it really is just Biden making the decision and other people just implementing it. Not in the real world. In the real world that general gets to decide, period. Does anybody disagree with that? The general gets to decide even though the constitution doesn't say it's his job. He does get to decide.

Now somebody's saying they'll only obey a lawful order. But let's say it's lawful. Let's say the president saw some attack or something so it's lawful. It just isn't a good idea and you can tell that the president isn't thinking clearly. Is the general going to launch? No, no, no. The general is not going to take that order and make it happen because the general is going to be in the room and say you know might need a second opinion on this one. So I'm not terribly worried about this single decision thing with the president because it's not really — it's the single plus the military. And the military, you know what are the odds that both of them are crazy at the same time, right? Pretty low. Somebody says it doesn't work that way. Well I'm certainly sure that I do not know the details of how it works. So that part I'm sure of. But I will not take any disagreement with the fact that the military would have to agree to launch. I'm not going to take any criticism on that. That's just obviously true. Yeah, and the nuclear football is not like there's a button in it. It's just begins a process, right?

All right, Governor Cuomo is getting the Rose McGowan treatment. So he's been accused of sexual harassment-like things by at least one person in the office. There's some talk that everybody knew he was like this. But somebody named Boylan has made the following claims. And I think the claims — you have to look at the details because if you're only hearing that there are allegations it sounds different than when you look at the specific claims.

All right, so one claim is that on a flight together — now I don't know who else was on the flight but obviously at least the pilots and the flight attendants — but he suggested to this subordinate of his that they play strip poker. So that's the first example, which would be pretty creepy, right? I don't want to minimize that. If you're just trying to do your job and your boss is saying stuff like that, pretty creepy.

All right, she also wrote that she complained to friends that the governor would go out of his way to touch her on her lower back, arms, and legs. Now I think in 2021 especially we're all pretty sensitive about touching people right now. What do you make of this? That he touches people on their lower back, arms, and legs. All right, hold that thought. We'll get back to it.

And he reportedly encouraged Boylan to look up photos of his rumored former girlfriend because he said they looked alike and could be sisters. And then in another incident Cuomo allegedly kissed Boylan on the lips in an unwanted, apparently, kiss.

So here are the allegations. He once said we should play strip poker. He touches her lower back, arms, and legs. And once said you know you look like my old girlfriend. And once kissed her on the lips. So these are the things for which people want to fire him.

Here's the context I would like to add. Now I want to be careful. I'm not defending him. Hear that as clearly as you can. I'm not defending him. I'm just talking about it, okay? So that's not a defense. How do you draw the line between something that is clearly just illegal, inappropriate, firing defense and what is sort of normal mating behavior? Who makes that decision? Because there's no doubt that this woman is a victim. Would anybody disagree with that? A victim in the sense that there were these unwanted things that intruded on her career. Should not have happened. Nothing should intrude on her career, especially of this nature.

But how do you make men not men anymore? Because you sort of would have to reprogram us. Do you think that when Cuomo was doing any of these things that he thought she was a victim? Probably not, right? He thought — I'm just guessing because we can't read any minds, right? We're not mind readers. But put yourself in this situation. Do you think that he thought he was sexually harassing her? I'll bet not. I'll bet not. Which again, just to be perfectly clear, whether he was aware of how bad his behavior was or not is not relevant. That's not relevant because he did the things. That's relevant. It's not relevant what he was thinking.

So here's the problem. Without defending anything that Cuomo did — oh, somebody says she was married. Okay, that's a whole other level. What is described here is men responding the way they respond in lots of different contexts. But of course this is the worst possible way to do it because he had power and she was just trying to do her job. So that's pretty bad.

But I only put this out there that — let me just work through this. A few of the examples. Do you think that when Cuomo suggested strip poker that he was in any way serious about that on an airplane where other people obviously were, at least the pilots, right? Do you think that was serious? No, of course not. It was creepy and it's also something that men often say without thinking. How many times have you been — how many women have heard some guy suggest playing strip poker? All right, men do it sort of as a throwaway line, maybe testing to see how she reacts. But it wasn't serious. It was no serious thing, I would imagine. Couldn't have possibly been serious.

Secondly, when he touches her on her lower back, arms, and legs, that's you know illegitimate in our modern times. But how much does he touch the men in his office? Wouldn't you like to know? Does he touch the men? Because some people are just touchy. Now touching people on their lower back often is in the context of holding a door. Fairly common. Have you ever held the door for a woman and then just to make sure that you know you're making sure she goes first you sort of just put your hand behind like just a light touch on the lower back just at a moment just to clarify that you're asking them to go first? I think most men have done that, right? Most men have done that at some point in their life. But usually with somebody they know better and not necessarily in a work situation, which makes it creepy. So was he thinking at the time that he was being creepy or was he doing what he always does when he holds the door? Don't know.

Somebody says he never touches the men, idiot, in all capital letters. Do you think that's true? Because there are people who do touch men and women. Now somebody's saying in all capitals and shouting it at me. But is that true? Because I can tell you that back before it was illegal to touch everybody it wasn't unusual that I would touch a man on the arm in a work situation even if I were a boss just sort of get attention. Even in schools you see it. Like if there's a kid misbehaving one of the best things that teachers learn to keep a kid from misbehaving is you just walk up to them and you put your hand on their shoulder. That's it. You just put your hand on the shoulder and the kid will settle down.

Now again I'm not defending him. I'm just saying that it's a naughty question whether you want to stop this kind of behavior in all of its forms. Again agreeing that it's bad behavior, inappropriate in the workplace. No argument on that, right? But how do you deal with it?

Let me ask you a question for the comments. Okay, in the comments tell me how many of you personally — all right, and this has to be personal — how many of you personally have had a sexual encounter with a boss or a subordinate? Doesn't have to be a direct subordinate. Could be just somebody lower level in the company. In the comments, how many of you, yes or no, have ever had a sexual contact with a workplace subordinate or superior? Let's see in the comments. I have. Yes. No. Student. Yes. Yes. Fist pump. Okay, you're funny.

Somebody says you're working this too hard. I'm almost done. The married part you can all put your own judgment on, right? Like I'm not defending any of it so you don't have to argue with me about it. It's interesting how many people are not answering the question. That's pretty interesting. Look at all the yeses. Now you're seeing more no's than yeses but there are a lot of yeses. All right, I'm seeing it both on YouTube and Periscope. Look at all the yeses.

So everybody here who is jumping on Cuomo, just consider the context. Just consider the context. So I'm not defending him. Just saying it's a pretty widespread thing.

All right, there's — we now know that another racism hoax has emerged. I guess a few years ago in 2018 an elite Massachusetts liberal arts college, there was a woman who complained about racism and now we know none of it was true. It was all made up and it ruined several people's lives. So there were people who — I'm still looking at all the yeses. Somebody says yes and married him. A lot of people got married to people that were different levels in their own company.

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ocky says in all capital letters, "Scott defending molesting a married lady." Am I doing that? Did you see me do that? Did you see me defending? Even though I stopped every 10 seconds to say I'm not defending, I'm not apologizing for it, it's all bad behavior. Did anybody see that? Well you're too dumb to be on this so you are blocked forever. Smart people only. All right, moving on. Is there a n…

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