Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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at the same time they prefer him. Because remember, Russia has two bad choices. They either keep the devil they know, which is Trump — at least they can talk to him, at least they can deal with him even though he's being a pain in the ass to Putin. At least they can deal with him. He's predictable. You know where he stands. You know he'll make a deal. Compared to Biden, because Biden would just go after him because apparently that's their technique in favor of China. Biden would be pro-China, no doubt. Russia's biggest risk. And so it could be true that Russia wants Trump at the same time it's true that Trump doesn't want that and is sanctioning the hell out of them for whatever the hell they're doing.

But here's my prediction. You will never see a compelling example of this alleged Russian interference, because if you did you would see that it's trivial. The same way if you had seen — and almost nobody did — the memes that the so-called Russian troll farm put out in 2016. Those memes looked like a sixth-grade project that was underfunded. They didn't even look like adults had made them. They were that bad. They certainly had no impact. I definitely never saw them until it all came out and I got to see a bunch of them all at once. And they weren't even in the same direction. Some of them were anti-Hillary, some of them were anti-Trump. I mean, it was — you could argue that the troll farm was trying to influence the election because they made U.S. campaign topic memes, but you can't argue it mattered. Not when you see them. I mean, if you've never seen them you could say, well yeah, it seems entirely possible that a sophisticated KGB operation with the top minds in the world and great hackers could come up with memes that are just so powerful, so good they can influence our election. Yeah, I mean in the abstract that seems like totally a thing. And then you see what they actually produced and you say, oh, this is a little sad. And maybe it's not Putin ordering this. Maybe it's somebody who thought they could please Putin by doing it on their own, which is what it looked like. And it's common apparently. It's common for everybody to jockey for favor with Putin by just trying to do something that they think he would like and then, hey, look what I did.

So don't expect you will ever see some examples of Russian interference. And if you do, it's going to be so trivial that you're going to say, uh, this is what you're talking about. So that's my prediction about Iran. We may be seeing some more explody stuff. As Jake Novak had pointed out even months ago, there seems to be at least a suggestion that either Israel or the United States or both have some extra knowledge about where Iran is keeping their bad stuff — you know, their bomb-making stuff, their weapons, etc. So somehow we know more than we used to know, and it looks like maybe we or Israel is acting upon it. So that's an interesting story.

All right. I think that I've covered everything I'd like to cover. Oh, there's Sturgis motorcycle rally. Well, that's a funny story. Yeah, Sturgis, you know, all the motor — the bikers come to Sturgis at the same time and have a big event. And there's some fun talk that Antifa could show up, but Antifa is not going to show up there. I would not expect the Antifa to show up in Sturgis, but that's a funny thought. All right, that's all for now. Come on, man. I'll talk to you later.