Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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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:…

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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 starting today, I guess. And have you noticed how one story ends and then there is always another one that just backfills it perfectly? Why is there not ever a day — I guess there were a few without Trump in the winter — in which it seemed like there was not much news? But it is kind of weird how the news always has a big story in the pipeline. The timing of it is a little suspicious, you know. Sometimes there are two at a time, but they really make sure that pipeline is filled. Which sort of suggests to me that if we had a time when there was not much happening, that the news would make something out of nothing, huh? They would not do that, would they? Make something out of nothing just to make news? Maybe they would. And how would we know? How would we know if there was a real issue and we were just reading the news and seeing a real issue, or the news business had created an issue that otherwise you would not have even cared about or known about or had any impact on, you know, whatever.

So you start to see the pattern that the news is pretty much

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artificial, at least in terms of how you feel about it. So the things you feel about the strongest are not necessarily the important things that happen. So the news no longer reports what is important per se. They report what is going to get the best audience. Well, there is a publication called RealClear Investigations. They are reporting about this little county in Montana, Missoula. Only 120,0…

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