Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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oji would have decreased the impact or the perfection of it. It was just perfect. Yeah I think it was smirking face. It's just like well what do you say to that? There's literally no comment about it that could have helped. It was just it just has to sit there on its own. Just it is what it is. But with one emoji Elon Musk described his entire marriage experience in ways which every man completely…

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ally everything you suspected was true about everything. Just about everything. It was all true in some form.

So every time the conservatives have this I got you this time feeling what always happens? We've been through this before right? Ah we got you this time. Now that the truth has come out watch what happens when the people on the left learn the truth. It never happens does it? There's just it just bounces off.

And I was looking at you know how will the Democrats try to put a little illusion wall around this to protect themselves and I saw this tweet by was it David Corn? Oh yeah. So he tweeted at Elon before the expose came out. He said in preparation please read my original piece on the Hunter Biden laptop. Now according to Corn the big issue, all right so ignore all the smaller issues because that's not really what's good. Here's the big issue because you don't want to be left on this little issue about maybe Democrats are getting people kicked off of Twitter and using it to affect the election. That's the small stuff so don't get lost in the weeds because here's the big story.

I don't know if you noticed but the Hunter laptop the big story as Corn tells us the big issue was that the New York Post and Giuliani used the existence of the laptop and iffy materials on it to advance Russian disinformation concocted to hurt Biden and help Trump. As of a few days ago a prominent Democrat was pushing that the laptop was not Russian disinformation but supportive of... oh my God. Present time. Press the time. No no it wasn't Russian disinformation. Did anybody tell you that? No it was information that supported the disinformation of the Russians and that disinformation I will not specify because there are no real examples to prove my point but I'd like to throw Russian disinformation into it to confuse it so that my Democrat readers will think well maybe that Republican story was wrong because there's something about still Russian disinformation in it.

And by the way it wasn't Manafort proof that the Russian collusion happened. It's the Manafort play. It's the Manafort play. Oh did you say that Trump was cleared of Russian collusion? Hahaha obviously the opposite happened because Manafort who is not Trump was guilty of a Russia related crime that wasn't specifically related to the main accusations. So good try on that.

And then have you seen the latest narrative? So all the left pundits got the memo and it's always funny when the people who realize that they're all using the same talking points when they do the little compilation so you can see that they're all little talking heads say the same thing. So the new talking point is that people who are tweeting about the Twitter revelations are doing quote PR for one of the richest men in the world. So apparently they did some research and they decided that since Democrats don't like rich people that you could just dismiss Musk for being a rich person and that why should anybody be doing PR for a rich person and that's what they have. And they're a whole bunch of tweets. They have the exact wording PR for one of the richest men in the world. They don't say it a different way. They actually use the exact sentence. Lots and lots of people.

So I wonder you know when that gets put out you know where did they all get that? They all get it from the same source right? Are they copying each other or do they actually literally have a talking points memo? They do don't they? Isn't there literally a talking point memo of some sort that they know where to look for? I think so.

All right. So Michael Tracy tweets about so Noel is it? Noel the author the old author whatever he was. So the guy who was in charge of Twitter's executive who was in charge of I guess banning people and other things. He had a public event and he said that the decision to ban Trump after January 6 was impelled in part by the trauma that he and other content monitors batteries were experiencing. So there's some confession, Joel Roth thank you, there's some confession that it wasn't purely a free speech or even a financial decision. It was how they felt. It was literally how they felt. Now it wasn't the only factor. I think you know Michael Tracy might be giving it a little more attention than it deserves. It wasn't the only factor but the fact that how they felt was any part of the decision is repeat it after me exactly what you thought it was. It's exactly what you suspected.

Have we all just turned into geniuses or are people just doing exactly what you expect all the time now? Like nobody does anything except exactly what you expected. It's like that's all there is. Has anybody done anything unexpected in a while? Well yes there is somebody doing something unexpected. Do you think I'll be talking about that person? Oh maybe. Maybe you know.

I think the problem with the Twitter content people is that they believe their own propaganda don't you? Don't you think the biggest problem that the left has with mental health is that they literally believe themselves? And I don't even know how many people who say things on the left you know the notable people who are creating the narrative. I have no idea how much they believe out of their own narrative but I know the people who consume their narrative buy into it and you'd have to think it would give you mental health problems wouldn't you? Because think about the narrative that the left is given and then all the counter factuals or the observed things that debunk their

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view and somehow they can incorporate all the counter factuals and still go along. It's like serious implied or is sort of an imposed mental illness. It's like a mental illness that's imposed on them from the outside by the narratives. I wonder if you could have narrative poisoning. Yeah I think I'm going to invent a term: narrative poisoning. If the narrative which is not true causes you to have…

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