Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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So FBI definitely influenced the 2016 election. And then the FBI was involved in the whole, and the Department of Justice, I sometimes conflate them because they can be conflated. But then there was a whole Russian collusion thing. So one was anti-Hillary, now there's anti-Trump. Then there's the Hunter laptop situation which was suppressed. So that was anti-Trump again. Then there's the January 6…

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you know hundreds of billions to bring chip manufacturing back to the United States. But I think it's more than chips, right? It talks about manufacturing. Can somebody tell me if the CHIPS law is more than just chips? It's not potato chips.

So some of this is encouraging it to go to India, that's correct. But I think some of it is to encourage manufacturing in the United States. Ultimately I don't know. This feels like a good idea because we have to decouple the tech stuff from China. So I don't know if this will be implemented right or it's the right budget amount, but directionally it's right.

So would you be surprised to know that the election polling is getting closer? You know I don't think that the generic Republican and the generic Democrat are that far apart anymore. And part of it is the legislative wins, if you can call it that. As long as the Democrats like what Biden's doing and he's going to give votes. So that's probably a good idea, the CHIPS thing. But I don't know. Don't know for sure.

All right, Rasmussen poll says 42% trust what the news media are reporting about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. Only 42% of the public trust the news about the raid on Mar-a-Lago. 42%. Now the way the poll is, 44% don't trust it and another 14% are not sure.

Now what is the difference between somebody who doesn't trust the news and somebody who's not sure if they should trust it? What would you call somebody who's not sure if they should trust the news? That would be somebody who doesn't trust it. If you're not sure you can trust something, by definition of how words work, it means you don't trust them. Right? Am I reading that wrong?

So that would mean the 44 plus the 14, so that would be 58% basically, or not believing the news about the Mar-a-Lago raid. That is actually a very encouraging number because that's exactly what I'd hoped. You would expect that the majority of people would say I'm not sure about that.

So here's two stories I'd like to talk about some more. The January 6th story disappeared and the Mar-a-Lago story seems to be disappearing. What do those two stories have in common? The January 6th story, you know the hearings, and the Mar-a-Lago story, the raid. What do they have in common? There are two stories that the Democrats thought would work in their favor and blew up. So they disappeared.

It's funny watching the news be so illegitimate right in front of you, right? Like they don't really, they're not really trying to hide it, are they? It's just so obvious that the news isn't real. It's just narrative manufa

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cturing. All right, 62% of the people who follow me and answered one of my polls believe that you can make a decision without knowing the risks on both sides. Does that seem high? 62% of the people who follow me believe you don't need to know the costs and the risks of your alternatives to make a decision. So does that sound high or low? That's about what I'd expect actually. About two-thirds of…

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