Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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etc., if this stuff gets done and gets worked into the system by Election Day the president might be able to claim, just think about this, the president might be able to claim that he stopped the increase of healthcare expenses. Now that's not as good as universal healthcare insurance to people who have no insurance. They still would prefer that. But that's a really strong story if you're running…

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e can do what's good for the United States because that's how countries are organized. They're organized to take care of themselves. And the idea is that if everybody did that the world's a better place. Then do university tuition.

All right I'm just looking at your comments here. Generic drug companies caught conspiring to fix prices. Is that true? All right people are prompting me about a tweet. I tweeted a story in which Bill Gates had referred to himself as a minor wizard and referred to the late Steve Jobs as a major wizard who had a reality distortion field and he could make a company work even if the product was bad which he did with NeXT Computer. He made a huge profit on something where nobody even wanted the product. And Bill Gates noted that Steve Jobs' magic reality distortion field didn't work on Gates because Gates felt he had a little immunity to it because he was a small-time wizard himself.

Now there's not much to say about that except that when Gates talks about Jobs and his power of persuasion you're hearing it from a credible and interesting source and somebody who was close to the source, somebody who knew him well enough to have an informed opinion. So and even though Jobs was considered an a-hole and I think Gates actually said that in the interview, nobody could argue the fact that he could make people work harder and do things and buy things that other people couldn't make happen. So he did see

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m to have the magic. All right. Any other questions? That's all I got today. It's another wonderful day because again if you look at the news. Hey, Nimble Navigators. Oh yeah, Joe Biden is apologizing. So Joe Biden said he waited to apologize about this busing thing. Do you all understand the busing issue? I don't. Apparently the issue is Democrats think other Democrats are racist because they ag…

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