Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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thinks he nailed it this week. I think he knows he missed the layup this week. Yeah but I don't know where Boo the cat is. She's usually in here. I guess she got a better offer today. All right was there anything else going on? So if somebody says are you still too left for Bernie and Warren? Yes but I'm better at math. So where Bernie and Warren want to do some things where the math doesn't wor…

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xes will go up but you're gonna save a lot. But Elizabeth Warren can you guarantee that that will be true for every voter who's in the middle class? No there are lots of different situations. Probably somebody in the middle class will pay a little bit more but not a lot. There I just fixed it.

If you take that message to the people and say yeah the middle class a little bit more taxes save a lot on health care that's my plan. I don't even know if that could be accomplished. I'm not even saying it's true but the message is better. Compare that to Elizabeth Warren are you going to raise our taxes? Their costs will now go down. What is wrong with her? And even Bernie who does Bernie does a better job because he at least seems a little bit honest about it's gonna be real expensive. I'm gonna really screw the rich people. At least he's honest right? Like I don't need to know the exact numbers. He's telling me he's gonna screw the rich to give health care to other people. I get it. All right you don't need to give me an exact number for that. I kind of know what that looks like.

So that's your assignment for today. Here's your assignment. Find out who is lying. Is it a lie that we only

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have 18 percent who don't have insurance or is it a lie that it will cost trillions of dollars to insure them? They can't both be true. Tell me which is true and get back to me. That's all I got for today. I hope you pre-ordered my book Loserthink. That's what makes me come back for the fun of it. Well I'd come back anyway because I enjoy doing this but it does make it easier for me to do this whe…

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