Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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All right, let's talk about Joe Biden because I think we have to. As the New York Times put it, I read this somewhere and I think it was on the Fox News site, quote, "prominent Democrats began publicly insisting that the ticket, the Joe Biden ticket, include a woman, preferably a black woman." All right, so now it's being widely reported that the important Democrat people want a black woman on the…

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Here are some things that are being said about Joe Biden. Dr. Jill Stein, you know her for ruining Hillary's chances because she was working with the Russians. No not really, that's what people are saying. And she ran in 2016 and got some votes and people say she siphoned them away from Hillary, probably did. And so Jill Stein is out there saying directly that Joe Biden has mental decline in public. Did I mention it's Dr. Jill Stein? Medical doctor Jill Stein. Harvard-trained medical doctor Jill Stein is saying in public, okay now it's just obvious. I'm paraphrasing but basically she's saying, she's kind of implying that you don't need to be a medical doctor to see this. I tweeted another medical doctor and I've been reading some other folks weighing in who are actual experts at working with dementia patients and Alzheimer's people, or at least they say they are on Twitter. You can never be a hundred percent sure if anybody is who they say they are. But people who are professionals are saying in public, unabashedly, that it's obvious there's a problem. Now do you remember when people were saying this about Trump? And do you remember that there was just a tremendous blowback from medical professionals, as they should, to say whoa, you know, medical ethics, medical ethics. We do not diagnose people who are not our patients. You don't diagnose people you haven't met, haven't examined. Never. There's no ever. Period. You do not diagnose from a distance. Well do you? Let me give you an example. Suppose you were a doctor. Somebody showed you a picture of an automobile accident and there was a headless body over here and then a very clear picture, no doubt about what you're seeing, the actual head which has been severed ten feet from the body. The doctor sees this picture and the person on the scene says what should we do doctor, should we give them CPR? And the doctor looks at the picture and says no, I'm not there but I think it would be unnecessary to give CPR because you see the head is not actually attached to the body. Probably dead. No, certainly dead because the head is not attached to the body. Now would that be an ethical failure because the doctor's not there, the doctor has not examined the patient, the doctor is simply just looking at a picture? Would that be unethical? No, because the head is missing. It's obvious. You don't have to be a doctor. A person with half a brain can see the head is dead. And we haven't reached that point with Joe Biden where he's a headless corpse, but we have reached the point where medical professionals are willing to say in public, okay just look. Am I right? We've crossed that line where it's no longer medically unethical for a working professional, a medical professional, to say in public yeah just look at that. That's obvious. That's a big deal because the medical profession did not cross that line with Trump. Am I right? And when somebody did, the other medical professionals poured in and said whoa, too far, you know, and people walked it back a little bit and tried to tap-dance. Well you know I'm not saying for sure, that sort of thing. But we're not seeing that this time. It's different.

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All right, did you see the video of the Biden rally? You know there were some protesters. I forget what they were protesting but they held a big sign up and Joe got a little flustered. Did you see how he handled it? If you want to see who is not going to be your next president you have to watch that video. Watch Joe Biden try to not be Trump. Because Trump would have said hey, get those bums out o…

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