Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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g it was suicide and some are saying I don't know. I'm not interested in the Unabomber. Can I get a vote of agreement here? We don't care about the Unabomber, do we? Nobody cares. You know, but yeah, here's a true story. The Unabomber actually caused me some problems. So the Unabomber and his situation actually overlapped with my personal life. True story. So when stuff was blowing up, and I make…

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ant to cut off the land bridge to Crimea. But does that really mean that they plan to take Crimea back? Here's my prediction for the day. Prediction for the day. That Ukraine's objective is to cut off Crimea and then negotiate. Because I don't think they want to take Crimea. That would probably wipe out the whole army in the process. But they want to make it look like they could. They want to make it look like any moment now we're going to take your Crimea away. We took your land bridge away so it's harder to reinforce it. But we're going to take your Crimea back. And then they're going to negotiate. That's what I think.

I saw Biden talking about when he was vice president his trips to Ukraine. How many of you know how many trips Biden made to Ukraine when he was vice president? Do you know how many? So he's saying 25. I think it was in the high teens. It was like 17 or something. Now how many times does any vice president go to any specific country during the term of the vice presidency? How many times has Kamala Harris gone to Central America? Once. Once. Can you give me any good reason why a vice president would go to any foreign country 17 times? Any country for anything? I can't. Thank you. I can think of no legitimate government purpose for going there 17 times. And by the way, why didn't we know about it? Are you telling me that during the Obama presidency that Biden went to Ukraine 17 times and that was not news? That nobody mentioned how many times he's going to this one place? Yeah, there's clearly something very, very wrong going on here. Clearly something wrong. How is that not big news? I never even cared about Ukraine until the recent dust-up. Are you telling me that Ukraine was so important that Biden would go there 17 times or whatever it was, some number in that range, and we would never even hear about it? I don't believe I saw one story about that. Did you? Do you remember seeing any news story about the vice president traveling to another country? How is that not a story? I mean at least a mention. Somebody says only six times. Biden himself, I saw a quote yesterday that was way more than six times. Now he might have been lying but I guess that's another story. Yeah, that's too many times. Too many times. There's something wrong there.

All right, we're gonna talk about the pyramids last because it's the most fun. So I saw that there are a bunch of links to news stories claiming that those Canadian fires are most clearly caused by climate change at the same time that the satellite imagery shows that there were a whole bunch of fires set at exactly the same time. Genuinely, genuinely curious. Did the people who wrote those articles blaming climate change, did they believe what they wrote? Yeah, you're saying it's lightning but there's always been lightning. There's never not been lightning, right? But whether it was lightning or whether it was arson, and it certainly looks like arson. But whichever it was, neither of those hav

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e anything to do with forest fires because the number of forest fires is down. It's not up, it's down. So but don't you wonder if the people who wrote this story actually believed what they wrote? Because usually, well anyway. Yeah I just, I'm just usually I think people believe what they write but this one doesn't look like, yeah this doesn't look like they believed it. Or are they that clueless?…

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