Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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know if this is money on the table because there's going to be a fight but if there might be money on the table you want your president to pick it up. That's what he got elected to do. He didn't get elected to leave money on the table. All right, nobody wanted that guy. So I would say that I respect and I appreciate this method. I don't know if it'll succeed and also because I don't know if it'll…

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have to have a revolution and do an armed revolution of the country? I don't know. Could be dangerous.

But I do like the fact that Trump took everything else out of the headlines and is going to concentrate in an area that I think is stronger for him. I do believe that Trump has an advantage if this is the option, if this is the topic everybody's talking about. I think he has an advantage.

Now about some more about this. If you're watching the news you know that Senator Lindsey Graham was in a ticklish situation because he's on record in two different times on camera saying that in this exact situation that he would delay the nomination. That would be his choice. And then he came out and said, oh I'm totally not going to delay the nomination.

Now if any of you thought that he was going to rely on principle or that he would keep his word and you know I said I'd do it so I guess I'm bound by my word, I gotta throw you an lol because we're not in a world where people keep their promises on stuff like that. That was just so obvious that he was going to find a workaround, you know a lawyer workaround, which he did. And he gave his reasons that were so ridiculous that I forgot them already. So I read his reasons about why he's changi

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ng his mind but it doesn't matter. No it doesn't matter what his reason is. If he didn't have those reasons he would have made up another reason because one thing he's not going to do is go against the president while he's running for his own re-election and it's a razor thin. Lindsey Graham wants to get elected. Our system allows him to do that, right? It is not, this is just my personal opinion…

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