Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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word. Why are we arguing over a word like or two words, toxic masculinity? How about a high ground move? I've told you that the high ground maneuver is what you say that ends all arguments. All right, watch me end the debate. How about everybody can just be different? That's the end of the debate. That's the high ground maneuver. If you come into a conversation where people are like me me me toxic…

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you're a functional alcoholic. You've seen that. Oh you've seen it. Yeah, they're the people who like to entertain. Do you know any people who like to entertain? Usually functional alcoholics who are covering their tracks.

Now there are so many functional alcoholics I don't have a complaint about it frankly. As long as they're not driving it's okay with me. I mean it's their life so I'm not judging. I'm just saying it's one of those patterns that if you've not noticed it yet, keep an eye on it. Keep an eye on that pattern. People will build a lifestyle to cover up whatever they're trying to cover up. If you had a foot fetish is there a greater chance that you would work in a large department store woman's footwear place? Probably, because that would be a great place to cover up your fetish.

So I only ask this because a friend of mine who knows a great deal about addicts and alcoholics — I won't say an expert but pretty close to an expert on this topic — says that the reason that Kamala does that embarrassing cackling when she's speaking, not her normal cackle. So if you notice there's two kinds of cackles. There's the everyday nervous cackle that she uses all the time. But there have been a few times when her happiness about ordinary things seems unusual, like her love for the fact that you could charge your phone on a school bus. That didn't look like normal cackle. That looked like alcohol.

Now this is not my opinion because I didn't have this observation, but somebody who knows a lot about this world said oh yeah, those speeches where she's talking like that and she's too happy about things that you shouldn't be happy about, that's obviously drunk. Now once you said it, once I'd heard it — because that wasn't really high up on my list of possible explanations for what we're seeing — but once you hear it I said to myself, hey I wonder if anybody thinks that Kamala is an alcoholic or even just d

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rinks more than she should for her job during the daytime. I suppose if you're a vice president you probably shouldn't drink ever, should you? Because isn't there a greater than zero chance that you'll be running the country in an emergency within an hour? Would you ever want Hillary Clinton in office knowing that she likes her wine? No matter how much she has, I don't want a semi-inebriated presi…

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