Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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timate. I always say it wrong. I tweeted that wrong this morning. There's a big impact of the what-do-you-call-it, the accidental consequences of anything. And the accidental consequences of the president losing a few Supreme Court battles is that he can lower our health care costs. Yeah, you could never underestimate. Thank you, that's what I should say. So the accidental consequences, the uninte…

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s nothing in what he did that even indirectly implies race.

So if you take away the Charlottesville fine people hoax, which is the one that people said, ah, finally, now we don't have to read his mind anymore. We don't have to think he was thinking something wrong even though he didn't do things wrong. We know he was thinking bad things. Now we have the actual proof. So once you have the proof, it proves all the other things. It's like now that we've heard this, we know all of his secret thoughts are confirmed. So I would say that those two hoaxes actually completely determined the midterm result. And that means that the fake news literally is running the country at this point.

If you're worried about foreign interference, you should rethink that on a statistical basis, because what we have now, it looks like you probably have a Russia which wouldn't mind having Trump again—I think, I'm not sure, but it feels like it—and then you've got a China that absolutely doesn't want Trump because Biden is China-friendly. So it looks like it's a contest between China and maybe Russia intell

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igence to try to thwart the fake news in this country, which will otherwise determine the election. So we have foreign interference. This is literally true. We have foreign interference in our fake news, which will cause the fake news to less reliably throw the election and make it illegitimate. Now I'm not coming out in favor of foreign interference. I'm simply pointing out the irony that it mi…

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