Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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tter than Europe. What I will tell you is we don't know why anything is working. We still don't. Like you know even the most basic thing which is well the most vaccinated country should be in the best shape. That doesn't even seem to hold at this point. But the one thing I'm pretty sure is true is that there wasn't enough of a difference in leadership changing in the United States really in terms…

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in a productive way that would be great.

Yeah infrastructure bill got passed. So boring. So that's the part that a lot of people agreed on just the pure infrastructure. The real infrastructure part. And how would you know if that's a good idea? How would any of you know if the infrastructure bill, and by the way they've separated out the social programs and now that's going to be part of the build back better separate bill but the one that really was infrastructure which I get would have taken three years to get an infrastructure bill so you can't be too happy about that but how would you know it's not all just pork and how do you know it's in that thing? I don't. I don't know. I mean I like the idea of infrastructure.

Now here's another question. We started this infrastructure bill thing in 2018 when the economy was a very different economy. It was pre-pandemic you know pre-massive run-up of the debt at least as much as it did run up. And here's my question and I don't know the answer to it so it's not a fake question it's a real question. Should we be stimulating the economy right now? Is there anybody here who is good enough in economics, I mean I have a degree in economics and I don't know the answer to this question. Is this the right time to be stimulating the economy? Because it feels like the wrong time, doesn't it? Because you know our jobs are coming back strongly. We're ordering more things than our capacity to deliver and inflation is high. Now I don't know what the supply chain is going to do to inflation. Should drive it up blah blah blah. But is anybody reporting that the infrastructure bill might be a huge disaster only because of its timing not because it's a good or bad idea in and of itself? Is anybody writing that? Is that a story even? Or are all the smart people saying don't worry about that because you need, I mean we need the infrastructure right? So it might be that we don't have a choice. You just gotta, you have to have good roads. You need more broadband. You just need this stuff.

Yeah I don't know how much of it is junk and pork and stuff like that.

Get rid of the vaccine mandates. Well I would say that if these Pfizer and the other pill if they get approved and they really stop it in its tracks and you can really do rapid testing I feel like we've got to open up at that point.

You know I've told you before somebody says I work for the CIA. All right did they assign you to watch me today? You know a while back I learned how intelligence agencies approach citizens and try to influence them and once you know how they do it you can spot it pretty easily and I've got one now that's trying to approach me and I would say they act very different from normal people. I'm not going to tell you what they do. I don't want to tell you that but it's easy to spot. I can't tell you.

All right. Russia collusion was an insurrection I think so and that would also explain, oh here's some more over on Locals. People are posting all kinds of pictures of large devices that move containers and so there are portable ones. They don't have to be cranes.

All right. National Guard has some. National Guard have some container movers. Yeah I imagine they would.

All right that is all I have to talk about today. If my energy was low that's because that three hours of sleep but I hope we made the world a better place and I hope you're all a little bit more cautious about imagining what you can do with your own research. Yes I know I am.

If there's one place that you can guarantee I will be humble because I know some of you have a problem with me being right too much but where I guarantee you I'll always be humble is that I can't do my own research on any of this. I mean I can. I can talk myself into think

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ing I did it but I can't. So I mean if you're substantially smarter than me in this particular way maybe you can but I know I can't. So unless you're pretty sure you're way smarter than I am about how to analyze stuff I don't think you can either. Not with confidence anyway. Not with any confidence. What kept me awake? I hate sleep so when I woke up I just didn't want to be asleep again and then…

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