Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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ching? The half of you who said that what Hunter Biden was doing was criminal or what Hunter and Joe Biden were doing collectively was criminal, do you know that there's not one lawyer involved with Trump's defense, there's no TV lawyer who's ever said it's criminal. Where are you getting this? I mean I'm on your side, you know, directionally I get what you're saying that there's something deeply…

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ice would be a younger person, younger than him anyway, and a person of color.

Now AOC of course is too radical and she's too young so she's off the list. But it kind of comes down to Kamala Harris, right? So now I know you're gonna say to yourself what about Stacey Abrams? Well here's the next part and if you haven't seen this yet this might fill in some blanks. When you're running for president you want the person who complements you the best. And Biden is saying, and actually I give him credit for this, there's a lot about Joe Biden that makes him unqualified to be president in my opinion but there's a whole bunch about him that I just respect. And one of them is sometimes he does tell it like it is, right? Yeah he still lies about the Charlottesville hoax but sometimes he'll just say things as they are. And he says he's an old guy and so he needs to make sure he gets a proper vice president who can step in. That is really honest. I gotta say that was super honest and maybe more honest than he should have been. It probably hurts him but I appreciate it because it was so honest.

So let me give you some examples. When Bill Clinton ran for president he was a governor from a smallish state. If you're a governor you do not know where all the skeletons are and where all the keys are in Washington DC. So if you've been a governor you have experience managing an operation but you don't have experience of operating in Washington DC at the federal level. So what Clinton did to fill in that gap is he picked a senator, a respected senator who was also easily capable of being president. So he picked Al Gore. All right so keep that in mind. The top of the ticket picks somebody who's the best compliment.

Now Stacey Abrams has never won a contested election. She's won uncontested elections and then lost for governor but she's only been involved in state politics and not really that successfully. Compare that to Kamala Harris who because Biden is talking about his own age being a risk factor, I appreciate the honesty, he's also saying that he could be gone on day one because it's true. He could get elected on a Tuesday and already be incapable to do the duties of the office by Wednesday. It's a real possibility. You know I don't know what the odds are but you have to plan for it because it's the whole country. So could Stacey Abrams take over as president with no federal experience whatsoever and would not have a vice president at that point so it would be sort of flying alone on day one? And the answer is nobody believes that. Nobody believes you could take somebody whose best experience is losing the governorship, you know losing the election, and so that's her best experience. Nobody thinks that person can step in to be the President of the United States. So Stacey Abrams just doesn't, she doesn't rise to the level of serious enough that she could help him. She probably hurt him more than she helped him.

But Kamala Harris, senator experience, senator from a major state. If Joe Biden became incapacitated the day after the election could Kamala Harris credibly, credibly in other words with the country look at her and say okay we're okay, we're okay, we got somebody who knows where the keys are. You know at least she's been in Washington. She even ran for president. All right she's about as close as you can get to being ready to take over tomorrow. The senator is a good choice for that. So I would say that the foreshadowing is now complete. You're going to see Kamala Harris. This is still my prediction from long ago will be picked as a vice presidential running mate because she has the most connections to the old Clinton machine and it would put Hillary Clinton back in control. So Hillary Clinton's play to run the country without actually having to do the job is to get Kamala Harris there and have her advisers advising Kamala. All right so that's where we're going.

So let's talk about, did you know that the law against fentanyl in this country, the thing that makes it illegal, is going to expire in a little over a week? Did you know that our law against fentanyl wasn't even a permanent law and that because of impeachment they probably won't get around to it? Holy cow. You want to pick a topic that's gonna piss me off, you couldn't pick a topic that pisses me off more than that. If anybody's new here I lost my stepson to a fentanyl related overdose in 2018 so this is personal to me. If this impeachment and these Democrats cause that law to lapse and fentanyl becomes legal even for a day, you know even if it only lasts a day, I'm just not gonna be a happy camper and you get

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to hear about that. So Hong Kong is looking at closing its borders or maybe it already did. They're closing its borders because of the coronavirus. China of course is closing more cities. The number of people affected is doubling every day or two. And I guess United Airlines is canceling flights for lack of demand and British Airways is considering or maybe already did ban flights. So the obvious…

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