Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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Except apparently that big ship that is stuck in the Suez Canal. But let us see if we can get that out. Yeah, I think the simultaneous sip has the power to dislodge shipping vessels from canals. Go. I feel they are wiggling right now. Yep. Oh, hold on. I feel it coming loose. It is coming loose. Well, let us talk about all the stories. Yes, let us talk about that big old ship. So the name of the…

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I feel. And that is not right.

So I will not make any other jokes. I had some good ones, but they are not for the public.

But that ship is not quite out yet. The wind blew it back into a stuck position. And I do love the simplicity of the story. As somebody said on Twitter, all of our other stories are too complicated. They have lots of variables. But this one is great. You can sum it up easily: ship stuck, needed unstuck. That is it.

All right. Trump made news again a couple of ways. He attended — I guess he crashed a wedding at Mar-a-Lago — and there is a video of him sort of talking about himself and talking about the government. And it was not until the very end that he says something to the bride and groom. You could tell he got a big applause. It was a friendly Trump crowd, as you might imagine. They had a wedding at Mar-a-Lago. They were probably pro-Trump.

But the way it is being portrayed out of context is that he was rude and boorish and crashed a wedding and talked about himself and forgot about the bride and groom and then left. Nothing like that happened. Exactly the opposite. He showed up at a wedding, thrilled the wedding people. They had the wedding of all time, the most memorable wedding you could possibly have, because Trump showed up and gave a speech unexpectedly. So the bride and groom probably had the best story ever. But it got rhubarbed. So that story got totally rhubarbed. If you cut off the last part, it looks like he never even addressed the bride and groom.

All right. Trump is also saying he is going to visit the border. This is why he was the fun president. Vi

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siting the border is just the best thing you could possibly do when the sitting president is not visiting the border during a crisis. So if the ex-president visits the border before the sitting president, it sort of makes the sitting president look not so strong on that issue, if you know what I mean. So that is a good play by Trump, persuasion-wise. Good play. So the George Floyd trial is starti…

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