Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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main thing you should not say in that situation which is somebody else should have won this award. Right? Would you agree that whatever else it was and you'll have lots of descriptions of how bad it was would you agree that he shouldn't have said it? Can you all give me that it was something that very specifically you should not have said even if he believed it you shouldn't say it out loud in pub…

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annot do that. And they started to work with Milo Yiannopoulos. You can't do that. No no you cannot say there's anything good with Milo because if you do it would feel like you're supporting pedophiles wouldn't it even though Milo is not accused of pedophilia. He is accused of something that has a different word but people confuse with pedophilia. So he I think he was talking about older teens which technically is not pedo but everybody sees it that way right. So I'm not making that distinction. I'm saying that Ye would know that people won't make that distinction. So associating with Milo put him in that sort of little supportive of a pedophile.

Do you know what you can't say? You can never say anything anything this even slightly supportive of the pedophile. So what do you say about Balenciaga when they're accused of being a pedophile organization? He defended them. Not the specific photo shoot but he defended the company that is not defending itself from pedophilia. They're not defending themselves. Let me say it again. Balenciaga never said how the photo shoot happened and therefore explained why they're not really guilty. They never did. But Ye defended the group that is accused of being pedophile friendly.

Do you know what you can't do? You can't do that. But he did it. Here's the pattern. Have you picked it up yet? You see the pattern? And then another hint came when I watched some more of the like behind the scenes of Ye's visit to Alex Jones and you see Nick Fuentes defending Ye's treatment of quote the Jews as like one group of people he has trouble with. And here's what Fuentes said we're okay treating every other group as one group. To which I said hey that's so wrong in ways I can't quite articulate. No no Nick Fuentes you racist you. But your examples are pretty good but that's wrong. That's so wrong. Except it makes you think doesn't it? Makes you think.

Now if anybody's new to my live stream I don't like Hitler completely. Like I hate his little mustache. I hate the lint in his pocket. He's all bad because I know what to say in public right. It's not hard.

Now here's the question that's going to blow your head off. You ready? You ready for this? Let's accept that Ye has some mental conditions. Maybe he's bipolar maybe something else. Do you think that any of the mental conditions that Ye is accused of would make him incapable of knowing what things to say to make him popular with the public and what things to say that would make him very unpopular with the public? Do you think he can't tell the difference between saying the right thing and saying the thing that will absolutely get you in trouble? Do you think he can't tell the difference? Somebody says yes that if it's mania if he's in the mania phase he can't tell the difference. I would think the mania phase means he's not afraid of consequences. I don't think it makes you unable to see what's right in front of you.

So here's my take. It seems deeply unlikely that he was surprised by any of the reactions to any of the things I mentioned. Do you think he was surprised by any of it? Now do you think he would know exactly what to say and do if you wanted to get back into the good graces of the public? Of course. Of course we all do. It's not like it's a hard question. It would be the easiest question in the world. Just say you didn't mean any of those things. Apologize for it. You know do some good works for people you might have hurt. That sort of thing.

Now what about the perfectly valid complaint from the Jewish community that Ye's rhetoric puts an extra risk on Jews? True or false? The way Ye talks makes them feel uncomfortable and adds some extra risk to their life. True. True. Absolutely true.

Now let's fold in Nick Fuentes and compare that to everybody else talking about anything. Do you think that the way the Democrats talk about me puts me at greater risk of literally being killed? Yes or no? Is the way they talk about me on social media every day it will be a risk of physical danger? Yes. Yes absolutely. Have you ever seen me say th

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at they need to stop doing that because it's putting me in physical danger? Have I ever said that you need to stop using your free speech because it puts me in physical danger? I've noted that it does. I've noted that it does but that's different than saying they need to stop it right? Not once. No. When Ye said White Lives Matter was he putting himself at greater physical risk? Of course he was.…

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