Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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Oh yes, it's always good. Why do I act surprised? Thank you for buying my book. And Jonah, well, let's talk about what's in the news. As you may have known, last week Rasmussen had a poll showing that President Trump had 34% or so support from African Americans. And people like me said, well that's not true. I saw that poll and the first thing I thought was, yeah, how did they ask that question?…

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All right. Dr. Robert Epstein, you might remember him. He did some testifying in Congress about Google's potential bias. So now he's operating a study in which he has a whole bunch of people that are identified only within the study but not publicly, who are simply using Google and using regular search terms and stuff. And they're trying to see if they can get different results over time as the election approaches than they would on the other search engines. And the hypothesis here is that if Google continues to show a bias that is not present in Bing or Yahoo or DuckDuckGo, that that will show something. It will show that Google is intentionally biasing their search.

Now here's what's interesting. They're definitely going to find out that Google is massively biasing their search. Then what? Google massively biased their search last election. Did that hurt Google in any way? Doesn't look like it. What would stop Google from just doing it completely, getting caught and just saying, "Well no we didn't do that. You can't look at our internal stuff. We didn't do that." I don't think there's anything to stop them. It looks like they should just go ahead and do it.

I saw the news today that Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, tweeted I think that he's using DuckDuckGo on his phone and as his browser because of the privacy stuff. And I just downloaded the DuckDuckGo app on my phone. I was already using the browser on my computer but I thought, oh yeah I should move to that on my phone as well. So for privacy reasons and because Google is really un-American in the sense that they're messing with our elections, which is about the most un-American thing you could do, I'm also looking into doing some research on some alternates for YouTube. As you know, YouTube is throttling my content and it's just shrinking instead of growing even though it's growing in viewers and shrinking in revenue. So obviously there's something going on there.

So there are several platforms on the way and already up and I'm going to take a look at those and see which one to move to. Yeah, Minds.com is one. Rokfin is another. And I don't know the differences between them. And there's at least one startup that I know of that's coming online as well. So there's some alternatives to YouTube and I will be probably selecting one of them or possibly using all. Oh yes, BitChute is the other.

Now there's a problem with the alternates. If you go full BitChute and you're saying we're not going to censor, you see the trouble with BitChute is that they do attract a lot of bad elements. I think what I'm likely to do, somebody's mentioning ThinkSpot and I don't know about ThinkSpot. Is that Jordan Peterson's Think? I'm gonna look it up here so I know what I'm talking about. ThinkSpot is, yeah, Jordan Peterson's thing that is that what he's working on with Dave Rubin. So I'm looking at something on Medium. So there's a blog on Medium and the title is "Jordan Peterson's ThinkSpot Is Doomed to Fail." It's doomed to fail. I think people say that about everything. What about Vimeo? I don't know.

So I think what I'll do is maybe for 2020 I'll be looking to put my content on more platforms and if any of those other platforms work out well then I just get off of YouTube. But in the meantime I'll probably just have multiple platforms.

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There's a report that the Kamala Harris campaign is totally falling apart. And I guess Mike Bloomberg just hired one of her top campaign advisors. As I suspected, you know how I was telling you that Kamala Harris seemed like a talented politician but I couldn't understand why her campaign was the worst I've ever seen. The worst. Just the worst. There's no campaign that's ever been as bad as Kamala…

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