Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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little bit of risk on that bipartisan stuff, a little bit, because we need to find out what's going on over there with the corruption, with the election, with Biden, etc.? Whose right? Doesn't matter. Does not matter. Number one it already happened so arguing about what was right after the fact doesn't make much difference. Now was Vindman right because the president asked Ukraine to look into th…

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lright. You happy? Are you happy if I admit that I need to find out more about it so you don't have to yell at me because I've been saying I need to find out more about it. But the fact that you're all pretty sure something's there and yet you can't state it in a simple sentence, and if it's a really really strong tell that there's nothing there. Doesn't mean there's nothing there but when you see this many people are sure of something that they can't explain in a sentence. Somebody says you cannot reduce this to one sentence. You can't. If it's true here's how you could reduce it to one sentence. Somebody bribed somebody. Somebody planted a story in the press. Somebody put some money someplace that wasn't supposed to go. It's easy. If there's something real there it can be explained in one sentence. The fact that you need Glenn Beck's whiteboard to explain it might mean that there's something swampy there and everybody's connected but I don't know. If you can't make the point briefly it's probably not real. That's a good lesson too.

Now let me say with complete clarity I'm open to learning that there's something really there. I'm open to that. Why haven't I heard it yet? You gotta ask yourself how much news do I have to watch before I can hear anything about it? One thing on. Alright that's enough on that.

I know what you want to talk about. Representative Eric Swalwell. If you're not familiar with the story, Eric Swalwell appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews and there

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was a loud noise that most observers said was Eric Swalwell emitting, shall we say. Now I've listened to it and my first reaction was that's not real. That's not really that. It was exactly like it and it looked exactly like it but my first thought was man it's not real. Now the official explanation is that Chris Matthews back in the studio dragged his Hardball mug across the desk and it made a s…

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