Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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0% of the story, and that's pretty big. Yeah, I'd say it's 20% of the story. I mean climate change itself, not just Greta, right? So you know, nothing is, there's no analysis that's the whole story, right? Everything's got lots of facets. So I don't think the woke side of the world is looking so good. Now here's another interesting angle on Ukraine. Jonathan Turley, who's always a great read, ha…

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s too much of a conflict of interest. We're not even talking about conflict of interest, are we? Like but have you even heard the phrase conflict of interest? Can you imagine that you would never hear that phrase if this were Don Jr. and Trump, right? I mean it's just, it's mind-boggling the difference.

All right, um, let's talk about some other stuff. In theory we should be seeing some massive cognitive dissonance by the people who were most supportive of Biden and least supportive of Trump over the past five years now because we're living in different realities. If there are any Democrats watching this right now, you may be saying to yourself, I don't know what you're talking about, Scott. I don't know what you're talking about. And you don't, and I can't fix that. I'm sorry.

So to those of you who don't fall into that category, I guess I'm just talking to you today. It's kind of obvious at this point, like super obvious, that on a whole range of issues, not all of them, not all of them, but on a whole range of issues, Trump was clearly the superior president. At this point it's just obvious. You know, there was certainly a point where you could have said, well, let's see what Biden can do, right? I think it was entirely possible that Biden could have come up with some southern border solution that was kind and generous and yet good enough for the United States. Maybe, I don't know. Give them a chance. It didn't happen.

You know, maybe Biden could come up with some productive way to deal with Russia and China. Didn't happen. So you know, maybe Biden could do something better for the energy. No, it didn't happen. So at this point wouldn't you expect — and I'm just talking to my own audience here. I know you lean a particular way, but don't you think there should be some prominent Democrats just sort of going crazy now because they can see what they did? You know, they caused this problem by insisting on a brain-dead president.

Well, here's an example. Maybe Stephen King had this tweet. This is, I swear to God this happened today. No, yesterday I guess, so it's fresh. He tweets, so Stephen King the novelist, he writes, Mr. Putin has made a serious miscalculation. He forgot he's no longer dealing with Trump. What is he watching the same reality that I'm watching? Because I don't think that Russia did much when Trump was in charge. I don't. So to me it looks like cognitive dissonance.

It was somebody else called it out on, you know, Dale called it out on Twitter. But Raheem had a reply to it. He goes, congrats, you're the dumbest motherfucker in America. That's funny. It's only funny because that was my exact thought when I read it. It was like, wow, you might be the dumbest motherfucker in America. And then I read Raheem's comment: congrats, you're the dumbest. Okay.

Now this does suggest that there might be a medical problem that is under-recognized, and I would call it long-haul TDS. Long-haul TDS. Yeah, long-haul TDS. The original TDS would give you some insanity and anxiety, fear, you know. So you don't want to catch a bad case of TDS, which by the way can be transmitted by personal contact. If you stand, six feet isn't enough for TDS. For COVID, six feet is pretty good for social d

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istancing, but for TDS you've actually got to be outside of the listening distance. So you want to be, well, you want to keep your distance of say a quarter mile from other people to reduce the transmission of TDS because if you get closer to it than a quarter mile, they can still shout, you can hear them, and that's a little too close because it gets transmitted by talking and ideas. So there wa…

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