Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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here it's going. Let's say both of them are right, because I think they probably are. I think both sides are right, meaning that neither side is acting responsibly in terms of the construction of this bill. Now even the president said I don't want to give money to people that are just going to do stock buybacks. Basically that's just transferring it to management. The benefits. So even the presid…

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not doing the job for the people. Not even close, right?

And so I look to the news and it's like Democrats say this and Republicans say that. And I say well okay yeah that helps me a little but I don't like either side at the moment. Give me a name. And then you see tweets and Representative Crenshaw saying look at what these Democrats are trying to do. And I look at that and they go okay that's great, that's good context. I'm glad you told me. What are the names? If the only name we're gonna get is McConnell, you know, Schumer and Pelosi, that's not good enough. That's not good enough. Because even if they lost their jobs there are a lot left.

So let me put it in the starkest possible way. This would be the time to send your children away if you have children who are home. I would ask you to either turn down the sound, put on your headphones, or send them out of the room. I'll give you a moment.

The people in Congress whose names we don't have, we need, if the press doesn't give us names of people who are gonna vote for this pork or who tried to put the pork in there by today, by today our press is absolutely worthless. Because this is an emergency. I don't need to know the name of the party. I know what a Democrat is. I don't even need to know the name of the leader. Schumer, Pelosi, I don't give a about them right now. I want to know whose ass I'm gonna get fired. I want to know who's trying to put this in there. And the country as hard as they can for whatever game. Locally, whoever it is, you don't have your priorities straight and we're going to straighten them out for you.

So as I said from the very beginning of this crisis, this is not a spectator sport anymore. You're in the game. You might not want to be in the game. Nobody does, I don't think. But you're in the game. And if your leaders are not doing the job, this is not a spectator sport. You need to target them for destruction and it has to happen today.

So let's create a list. Give me the names of people. Tell me what state, what leader put that in the bill. I don't want a list that there's pork in the bill. I don't care about the pork in the bill or no name. I want who put it in there. Tell me you put it in there. Let's make a list now. Let's target them for destruction. I don't care which party, Repub

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lican, Democrat, independent. They got to go. These are people who are not patriots. They're not servants of the people. They're not even human beings right now. And they need to go and they need to go right away. Now you know we don't need to fire them this week but we need to make a list and we got to make a point. Like I said a million times, voters have been mad about this thing because you k…

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