Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 1, 2026
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onists. Do any of you get today off? Is anybody taking the day off, or does it not work that way? It's not a national holiday right yet. Probably will be. I feel like June is a little light on holidays. Are you with me? Do you feel like June just, yeah, they could use just a little bit more holiday. Not enough holidaying going on in June. I mean, there's my birthday, and that does cover a lot of t…

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rently Biden's concept, is that you need to be continually dealing with the Chinese because there's a better chance of getting a good outcome if you're talking. I completely disagree with this, and I'll tell you what I would do. I would close all of our embassies and send every Chinese student home unless they fix fentanyl. Because the problem here, let me explain how government works to the government, is that they've treated fentanyl like it's just one other problem. It's not like any other problem.

We're acting like friends, and all is on our list of negotiating topics. You know, when we go to talk to them about trade and our trade situation, let's throw fentanyl in there because that's just another thing to negotiate, right? Just throw it in there with the list. You got this and that and that, and then a little fentanyl. Let's talk about that too. No, no. Fentanyl is not like anything else on the list. You don't go into a negotiation with somebody who's shooting your family members while you're negotiating, do you? No. You say first you stop shooting my family members, and then we'll have something to talk about. But you don't act like everything's business as usual while they're killing your family. But we are now. Oh, business as usual. If we're worrying about a trade war, that's just business. But if they're killing people right now, you don't negotiate, nor do you keep your embassy open. You close your embassy and you say we'd love to talk to you, but you're going to stop this first. Period. Period.

And the fact that this is just put on the list with other stuff, it's like, oh, we'd like you to do this and that, and we'll just throw that on the list too. Maybe

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if we'd someday talk about all of it together in some comprehensive way. No, no. You close the embassy. You just walk away and say you want nuclear war? You're on the way. Because it is a war. It's a hot war. And acting like it's not is ridiculous. So Blinken, total failure. I'd like to also say this about his name. When you're going to send somebody to negotiate with your biggest adversary, woul…

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