Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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it and then they interviewed me and I made this joke. I said that my mother was the second worst cook in the world after her mother. Now that's something that we kind of said in the family. It was like a family joke that was also true. It was true. My mother was the inspiration for Dilbert's mother who had a cooking show called Cooking with Salt. It was just salt. So basically would you like it se…

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p with a dozen right off the top of your head where her personality would be perfect. Like big personality, she's not shy of the camera. You can think of all kinds of jobs she'd be perfect for but not this one. You don't want somebody who looks like she's acting to be your disinformation czar. That's the opposite of what you want.

All right that ladies and gentlemen is everything I wanted to talk about. I believe I have helped you all to a better life. If you haven't read *Loserthink*, my book right up there, you really should because it is the answer to disinformation or at least it's one of them. So if you would read that book it would tell you how to spot fake news with very practical specific things to look for. And once you have that toolbox you say oh it's one of those and then you could spot it easily.

I'll give you one example. If you see news that's too incredible to believe it's because it's almost certainly not true. The news that makes our hair catch on fire and go oh I can't believe that happened — it didn't happen 95% of the time. Sometimes yes weird things do happen. That's a real thing. But when you see the news that let's say the news that the Russians were paying a bounty for American deaths in Afghanistan or something like that, like that would be such a shocking story that's probably not true. And sure enough there's no confirmation.

Be a turkey volume guessing man. Six. Like the Supreme Court made abortion illegal. Yeah. So did you know that most abortions are performed with just a pill? How many of you knew that? That's something I learned from Dr. Drew. And I think Dr. Drew had an interview with Bill Maher and then immediately after Dr. Drew met with Bill Maher, Bill Maher said he learned a lot about abortion. And one of the things he learned is the same, literally the same thing that Dr. Drew told me when I was on Dr. Drew's show just the other day. He told me that the vast majority of abortions are just a pill. I didn't know that. Did you know that?

Well I guess it's a technical definition of what an abortion is. So if there was anything that was going to take hold, to use non-scientific terms, if anything was in the process of becoming a life and it stopped it from happening I'm going to call that an abortion. You know you can word play it all you want but yeah. We talked about the horse dewormer thing. That's just such a big simulation coincidence.

All right. And then *2000 Mules*. I haven't seen it yet but I plan to as soon as I find it somewhere. If anybody has a link to somewhere I can actually see the actual video *2000 Mules* will you send it to me on Twitter? Because people keep telling me where it is but I can't find it or I can't find it in a way that plays. I found it on Rumble and it didn't play. I don't know why.

Oh have you mentioned ultra maga? Yeah you thank you I should have mentioned that. So as you know now Biden is going with this ultra maga extremist messaging. So once again when they don't have an argument they have to go for a personality. That's what they're doing. So it's just another typical Democrat approach to attack the people in the United States like entire categories of people and just dismissing them. But I don't think it's working. That ultra maga thing doesn't seem to be working. And they're also bringing back dark Brandon. So the Democrats have not — essentially they have given up. I was going to say it seems subjective but I think we can say it objectively can't we? Would it be fair to say just objectively if you take your bias for a second to the degree we can do that, does it look like the Democrats gave up and they're only struggling to win based on personality problems and fake news and it doesn't look like they're trying to win on content? The Republicans are still definitely trying to win on content because they have the strongest case in the world. Well this worked when Trump was president such as the border. Just do that again. Do wh

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atever he was doing. It must have been working. So they have a pretty strong argument of practical solutions. You know hire more cops. How about that? You got too much crime? Stop letting people out of jail. How about that, right? So they're very practical solutions even if you prefer them not to be the solution. But the Democrats have just given up. They're not asking for anything that's real at…

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