Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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o are trying to get higher salaries you should act as though it doesn't matter how much your sport is making because that works against your argument. So I'm also loving the fact that women are negotiating so effectively. That's good news. Women are taking every lever they can pull, every button they can push. If women are negotiating aggressively for greater pay and let's say they're using a litt…

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acerbic wit. So if you like your tweets edgy, if you like a little spice on your tweets, follow Michael Malice. But we did yesterday, I think, a picture of, do you remember E. Jean Carroll who was accusing the president? And you remember how long ago that was? Two weeks, as Michael Malice pointed out in his tweet. It was only two weeks ago we were talking about E. Jean Carroll. Do you know why we're not talking about her anymore? It didn't work. It didn't hurt the president so it's not news anymore because it doesn't hurt the president. She was so non-credible in her, let's say the way the story evolved. I'm not saying anything about her personally or her thoughts or what happened because those are things I can't know. But the way the public received her was not in a way that's bad for the president.

Somebody's asking me if I can talk about Epstein. Well there's a lot of unknowns on Epstein and so I generally try to avoid talking about stories the way they do on the news where they'll say well we don't kn

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ow what's going to happen but if this happens and if that happens. Those are the least interesting stories. I think Epstein is a wait-and-see because there's just way too much we don't know. Somebody saying that Dershowitz has done it. I would bet against that. If I had to bet one thing I would bet that Alan Dershowitz will come out fine for a variety of reasons. But you know I suppose we live in…

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