Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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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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quoting Lawrence Jones, did you immediately think of Bud Light or no? Did Bud Light come into your mind or no? Because it did for some of you. Yes, some of you. It's kind of an interesting framing isn't it? Because it says it's as good as a tribute band although tribute band is really visual and you know you can almost hear it and nobody's ever liked the tribute band better so that's good. But people do like light beer better. There are people who genuinely like light beer. So but I do like the fact that it associates it with something that the base is already biased against.

All right, so CNN and maybe some others from the left are going after Musk. So there's a big opinion piece. I'm not even going to tell you who wrote it because the opinion pieces on CNN are just such hack jobs. I mean they're just so unprofessional and poorly written that I'm not even going to tell you who it was because it doesn't matter. But it's sort of trying to put together a laundry list of reasons why you shouldn't trust or like Musk.

All right, so here's our laundry list of reasons. Now remember the laundry list persuasion means that you don't have anything. The reason you put them in a list is that individually none of them would bother you but if you see them in a list like whoa that's a lot of smoke there must be some fire there.

All right, so here's their beginning with their little list propaganda against Musk. That he apparently agreed to Turkey's request to censor a bunch of critics of the government. And I guess the choices were that you know to not have Twitter in Turkey during the election which would have been bad or to do what a dictator wanted him to do and censor on their behalf which is bad. So Musk had two choices. One was to stay in business in Turkey and you know live

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to fight another day because it's at least some free speech or to go hard and say no Turkey you don't get Twitter. There will be no Twitter for Turkey. Sorry you don't get any. Now how do you know what the right decision was? You don't really know the right decision do you? You know what happened but you don't know if he'd made the other decision a better thing would have happened. It's completely…

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