Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 1, 2026
Scott Adams Philosophy Archive
Search ideas

Context —

You know don't go all Dale on me. Oh well technically it doesn't mean. No I know that. I know it technically doesn't involve Twitter or X or whatever. Yeah all right. Well you know what I mean. All right so now the Second Amendment won't protect your freedom of speech because that's already largely gone. What you have is the freedom to run into a buzzsaw of economic destruction should you say som…

← Previous segment →

egitimate and sane. Now they might be sane and you know just playing a role or they might be insane and not know it but you should not respond to anybody with a Ukraine flag as if you're in a conversation with somebody as a political difference. Nothing like that's happening. Just look at their responses. They will be completely unhinged. Same with the little ocean thing. Same with the masks, right? Same with the pronouns. If you see any of that you're dealing with a mental disorder and it has nothing to do with whether they disagree with you on policy. Yeah the syringe. The syringe. The blue wave. Yeah they are so predictive.

But the one I use all the time is the artist. When the artists come after me they usually have artists in their bio and they'll come after me the hardest. That's not exactly a mental disorder. That's people in my profession who didn't do as well. They're all hella mad. It's like can you imagine. Well let's have some sympathy for them. Can we imagine being an actual artist and then looking at what made me famous? You don't think that would bother you? I'm literally the least talented artist in the entire world of art who is not named Kathy Griffin because she left the business. But of people who are actually still working I'm by far the least talented in an art sense. Can you imagine how much that bothers artists? How about my writing? You know I don't exactly write like Shakespeare who I mock. How would you like to be a writer who can make really good English college course writing sentences and then you look at my little sentences and they all look like they're fourth to sixth grade level comprehension. They're like oh my God look at this idiot. He can't write long sentences. He can't draw and how did he get famous and I'm such a good artist and I'm going nowhere. So those are not exactly mental disorders. That's just small people. But the ones with mental disorders really stand out. They do like to label themselves.

Well Elon Musk is suing the ADL. The anti-discrimination league. Anti-discriminate no. Anti-Defamation League. Anti-Defamation. Here's a little rule for you. Anybody who has "anti" or "dis" in front of their names is doing the thing that they're anti-ing or dissing. Antifa. Antifa. Are they really anti-fascist? Are they? Are they about anti-defamation as the ADL? Defamed anybody? Well they, the head of the ADL called me a holocaust denier in public. That's the head of the ADL. The head of the ADL called me personally just a few weeks ago anti-Semitic and a holocaust denier.

What about the various entities that try to be the people who stop disinformation? Do you think the people who are stopping disinformation are stopping only the disinformation? They might stop some of that as well but I've got a feeling that they're in the disinformation business if you know what I mean. About the fact checkers. Are the fact checkers there to make sure your facts are right? Nope. They're there to make sure you don't know the facts because they're politically oriented.

So if you have on your cynical hat anytime somebody is anti-something or dis-something or checking something it's the opposite. It's just it literally is the opposite. And once you understand that everything starts making sense. It's like oh it's the anti-discrimination people. Oh they're going to discriminate against people. I got it. And then they will. You can watch it. Most holocaust deniers deny being a holocaust denier. Well do you still beat your husband? Yeah because a lot of people are going to say no to that.

So Musk is suing them and his claim is that the ADL primarily because he talked to advertisers and they, he named them, the ADL pressured advertisers that there will be problems if they did not stop advertising on X which made Musk's 22 billion dollar investment worth maybe nothing. So he speculated on the platform that even if they were only responsible for let's say 10% of his loss it could be a couple billion dollars.

Now I saw one lawyer who seemed to be self-labeling if you know what I mean. If you know what I mean he

Context —

was self-labeling himself as not credible. He had a hashtag BLM in his bio. He's a lawyer and today in 2023 he has a hashtag BLM in his bio. We yeah you know you immediately have to discount anything that comes out of that account because it's self-labeling. Is there somebody who doesn't know that BLM was a fake organization? Is he the last one? Nobody told him. Nobody mentioned that. All right w…

Next segment → →