Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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s one way or the other based on who has the better fentanyl plan. I'd like to see them compete. So as of today the Republicans have the better fentanyl plan. Declare that they're terrorist organizations. Declare that it's a weapon of mass destruction. Those are good plans. And then at least have the conversation about bombing them. Matt Gaetz, right? So if you voted today and you wanted to make th…

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illegal for your bosses to have said that and no one believes you. So now her real name is Nicole Hannah-Jones and she goes by this historical name. I'm not sure exactly when she uses which name but it's the same person. And she's the author of the 1619 Project if you haven't heard of that.

All right. So what did I do when she called me a liar? Well she also asked for evidence and some other prominent Black folks came into my tweet feed and they said you keep making these claims that we all know are lies. So Black adults who are well educated, at least the ones in this conversation these are well-educated Black adults, do not believe that white men have been discriminated against in any widespread way in hiring in America over the last 25 years. Is that mind-blowing or what? Because it's the most well-known phenomenon I can imagine. But reading a number of their comments there are a number of educated Black adults who believe that that's a conspiracy theory and that I'm one of the conspiracy theorists spreading it because I'm making a claim that they say is a complete lie. And that I never was told that I can't be promoted because I'm white and male because it would be illegal to do so. Now is that not obvious cognitive dissonance here? Here's how you'd tell what cognitive dissonance is. Cognitive dissonance is where you say something that's absurd and everybody can see it. Who in the world could be

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a Black adult advocate for Black concerns like Ida Bae Wells or Nicole, whatever she's going by? How can you be somebody working in that space and believe that corporations don't break the law because they would be afraid of getting caught? How can you possibly think that's a thing? There's nobody who's worked at a major corporation who's unaware that they break laws routinely and are completely a…

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