Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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e times, let's hold off on, you know, shooting the people on our own team. Let's wait. Because if he has a good explanation I'm open to it. But otherwise he has to be fired. Of course there's some tweets going around today. I guess on February 7th Secretary Pompeo was tweeting a photo of American planes being loaded up or unloaded, I guess. Apparently in February 7th the United States sent many p…

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lions of anything, yeah, when it comes to medical supplies you actually go through millions of stuff really, really quickly. So you can see really big numbers of what we shipped and, you know, it might have been one hospital rips through them in, you know, five days or something. So it's not as much as you think. That's the first thing.

And as a percentage of the United States total supply of that equipment, what do you think it was? If you had to guess, of our total United States supply of whatever that medical equipment was, how much of it do you think we gave to China on that one airplane? Well, less than one percent, don't you think? Less than one percent. And at the time I don't think that our officials who made this stuff knew we had a shortage. I don't think anybody knew. So if they made a decision back then to do something that would have obviously great, you know, diplomatic potential and, you know, in establishing this as a, you know, credible world player and being helpful even to people who are maybe not as helpful to us while we're still negotiating, you know, part two of the trade deal, I think this probably made sense on February 7th. In retrospect you could say it was wrong. But we're still in the battle. And if you're bayoneting people while the battle is still raging, you're not on our side. That would like you to be on our side for a while.

Here's the reason you will get blocked by me on Twitter or Periscope. So I just sort of put that out there. So in a comment on Twitter today, you know, I responded to somebody, they responded back, and then some third person comes in and says of me, he won't respond to any more. You're blocked. So I'll block people for telling me what I will do and what I am thinking. Those are the two things you can't comment on without getting blocked. Because you don't know what I'm gonna do and you don't know what I'm thinking. And if you're out in public telling people what I'm gonna do or what I'm thinking, I don't want

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to have anything to do with you because you're not a useful person. You're just being a troll. So that's in the media block, just so you know. Apparently here's a weird outcome of this coronavirus is that the illegal drug business is struggling because they're not getting the necessary chemical components from China. To which I said, wait, what? Now I knew that fentanyl was coming, you know, the…

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