Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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ercent support. Well now you have to listen to him, right? Because if he decides to endorse somebody it's gonna matter. So now you say, let's say Kanye gets 20 percent of the poll and he says look I don't know who's gonna win but here's my deal for you America. Republicans, give me your best offer for what school would look like for everybody to make sure that you absolutely get a good education n…

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the early stuff right. So if Kanye could say here's my deal. I'm gonna go with whoever could fix racism and the only way to do it is to fix schools and fix it for everybody. You give me the best proposal for that and you have my endorsement. And then Kanye is not technically the president but he fixes racism in one generation. Fixes it, I mean, because if the proposals are good. And when I say fix it I do not mean reduce it because you can't. You just make it less important. That's fixing it.

All right, here's my campaign slogan. I've also announced that I'm going to run for president. I have a few requirements. So I don't want to do any paperwork so I've announced on Twitter I'm running for president but without the paperwork. I also need to work from home. I'm not about commuting. And another big requirement is this is my only policy proposal. All foreign dignitaries have to wear name tags. I'm not going to memorize all of these names of foreign dignitaries. I'm just not. So it's my one proposal. Just wear name tags. Just do me a solid only when you're visiting.

I also have a campaign slogan that I think is quite good and it goes like this: Black lives matter more than others. Now you might say to yourself whoa Scott you can't say that. You can't say any group matters more than others. To which I say well I do not need your loser philosophies. I know how to negotiate. Everything's a negotiation in politics, right? Even if you're not calling it a negotiation it's kind of a negotiation. Why would you, if you are selling the product, why would your first offer be the lowest price you're willing to sell it for? Why would your first offer be the lowest price? You'd start high and let them negotiate down to a fair price, right?

So all good negotiation starts with a big first ask. So I would start with a campaign slogan of Black lives matter more than others. And then when people try to negotiate me down I'd have to have some room to go down. And then would they get down and say hey how about we just say it's all kind of the same? And I'd say no, I'm willing to listen to that offer but my first offer is that Black lives mean a little bit extra. A little bit extra. And then people say we can't live with that. That feels like a violation of the Constitution. But can we talk you down to equal? Can we get you down to equal? I'd be like I don't know, you sound a little bit racist when you talk like that. But here's what we'll do.

Now you've seen lots of deals that there could be things that are a trade-off. For example you have to pay people more to work in a dangerous job. You have to pay people more to work on a holiday. All right so you can see that discomfort and money can be substitutes, right? I'll pay you more if you'll take a little more discomfort. So there are lots of cases where money is a substitute. So I'll say yeah I'm willing to entertain your offer of bringing my first offer down to roughly equal but you're gonna have to kick in a little extra. Maybe some better schooling, something. So I would just be a better negotiator and I would get all of the black vote that way. So I might be your next president if Kanye isn't.

There was a new fake video that CNN apparently ran and some others that seemed during the clip that President Trump didn't know that Operation Desert Storm was not in Vietnam. Now of course it was a deceptive edit which they finally had to admit wasn't true. But can we learn from now that video lies? Can we all agree that video lies and that it lies almost every time? Kinda lies almost every time. So if you think I saw it with my own eyes is a thing, it's like you missed all of 2020. Anybody who says to you I know it's true Scott I saw it on the video, if anybody says that your best

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answer is, so it looks like you skipped all of 2020 and didn't notice that if it's on the video it's probably a lie. That's why it's a viral video. All right, did you see though, let's talk a little more on Biden. So I offered in a tweet today or I offered a way to take him out of the race and it would look like this. Now this assumes that a reporter can ever talk to him and ask questions. I don'…

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