Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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l the fun, right? So don't assume that this is a slam dunk. But boy the simulation is just screaming for it, isn't it? The simulation seriously wants this to happen. So we'll see. We'll see. If I were to predict it's going to happen it would be based entirely on the most entertaining outcome, not on any evidence. Not on any evidence. Because I don't believe anything on the internet. All right, he…

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It almost feels too obvious, doesn't it? It feels like it's just really obvious. Yeah, maybe I could see Kristi Noem being a choice as well but Tim Scott seems more obvious.

All right, do you know the Trigonometry podcast? It's a pretty big deal. It's made a lot of news with some big interviews. Apparently they're British based and their bank just shut them down with no explanation. No explanation. They just decided to unbank them and they just said yeah we, I'm sorry we can't be your bank anymore. It's called Tide Business. I never heard of that bank but do you think that's good for Tide's business? I hope not. Now maybe there's some reason we don't know about but as Eric Weinstein was pointing out we do have a problem with choke points. Banks are a choke point. So the bad people don't have to go after everybody. They just go after your bank and you saw what happened to me with the choke point, right? Just go after the publisher. You could take me out of business with just one choke point. That's what happened. So choke points are a big problem in politics right now if that's what happened. But we'll keep an eye on Trigonometry. Wishing them well.

All right, what do you think of the DeSantis versus Trump strategy of saying that the other one was wrong on the pandemic? Do you think that's going to work? So apparently both Trump and DeSantis are going to exaggerate what they d

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id and you know maybe exaggerate the other direction what the other person did. So they both seem to have a claim that the other one got it wrong. And I try to follow the argument so I'm like okay on this date DeSantis was a little bit pro-lockdown but on this date he was anti-lockdown. But Trump, he was pro-vaccination but then not mandatory but then he wasn't against lockdown. And then what abou…

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