Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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inciple. And that's it. That's their laundry list. And here's the title of the piece: "What Happened to Elon Musk?" What happened to him? The title is what people are going to say and they're going to say oh how did he turn bad? Well I don't have time to read that article but it looks like something sketchy with that guy. Oh my God. Now is it obvious to you that they're just trying to take down h…

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Putin and threatening his borders. What the hell is he supposed to do? Yeah I'd love to know the secret back story with Putin. I feel as if there's something that we don't know about Putin or maybe what we did. Maybe it's something we don't know about the United States but there's something about the whole Putin's story that got us to this place that didn't make sense. And the only way to explain it I can think of is that the military-industrial complex is just doing whatever it takes to have more war. That follow the money is the only thing that's completely working. Everything else looks like it doesn't make sense but if you follow the money it just everything suddenly is perfectly ordered. You know you can see the whole field. There's no questions left. Yes he considers Ukraine part of Russia but there are genuine reasons why he needs Ukraine as a buffer.

All right, what if Russia's most valuable threat? Yeah they're the most valuable threat. That's an interesting way to put it. Scott Barnes is saying John are you so somebody who's Scott Barnes are you referring to me incorrectly and also not understanding any of my positions while criticizing me or is there a person named Scott Barnes that you're speaking to? Were you drinking this morning? All right so something about Robert Barnes I guess. Some mentalities passed down from the sources to the sons. Maybe Google is Scott. Google what? That never helps. All right so was that a comment about me? Did somebody think I was changing my opinion? I'm just trying to see if somebody was drunkenly criticizing me or not. Yeah how can you drink all day if you don't start in the morning? That's a good point. All right yeah I don't think I changed my opinion so you must have been talking about Barnes. I don't know. Barnes is an idiot so I don't talk about him.

All right here's John. Scott you're t

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aking exactly the position of the people you criticized for being RT stooges on Russia. I'm taking exactly the position of the — no I'm not. No yeah you're hallucinating that. Nothing like that's happening. I have no idea what you're talking about. Now you're hallucinating. All right that's all for YouTube. I will talk to you tomorrow in the morning. Don't drink for breakfast. That's my advice to…

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