Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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ould even animate Joe Biden. It's called coffee, and it happens now. Go. Ah, yeah, that's good. That's good. Well, let's start with our first little bit of gaslighting, and this comes to you courtesy of CNN. Now I made the mistake of looking at the CNN website and clicking on one of their links. Here's what I found on the front page. This is what the link says. The link says CNN poll: a majority…

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ght, I'll click the link. All right. Republicans don't want Trump to be the nominee. And then the story is by Kate Sullivan. CNN poll: 75 percent of Democratic voters want someone other than Biden in 2024. 54 percent of Republicans didn't want Trump running. 75 percent of Democrats don't want Biden running.

The title to the piece is about Trump. The headline of their actual story — this is CNN's own story. They're not linking outside their site. This is all within CNN right now. You can go look at this yourself. The story is the opposite of the title. The title tells you there's something wrong with Trump. The story is about something wrong with Biden. Have you ever seen something that direct? Isn't it just a link error? Nope, it's not a link error, because the story does include the fact that the GOP, 54 percent of them, don't want Trump. But it's a buried context within the larger story. The larger story is people don't want Biden.

I mean, how much of the general public — let's say the CNN viewers — how many of them would even notice this? Do you think they would even notice, or would they just read the headlines and say, well, Trump is unpopular in his own party, and would they just move on? It's amazing that they can do this

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right in front of you, right in front of you, and you know, shamelessly. Are you worried about robots taking your jobs? Do you think robots will put us all out of work in the future? Well, let me give you some context here. It's happened once before. Robots already took all of our jobs once. Well, I'm extending the definition of robot to, let's say, a farm tractor and industrial farming, which is…

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