Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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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 a…

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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, but to me it is not unethical to do legal things that get you elected even if it means changing your mind. He's allowed to do that if that's what it takes to get him elected and he's doing it transparently. There's not really any secrets to it. You know what he said before. You know what he says now. You know it's the opposite. He puts it right out there. You know you can do what you want with that and at least it's transparent.

So the Democrats, the leadership has decided to threaten the public. That's the way I take it. So Schumer said that quote, everything's, nothing is off the table if the president pushes through this nomination. Nothing is off the table. What's that mean, nothing is off the table? And Richard Blumenthal, Democrat senator, said similarly. He tweeted if Republicans recklessly and reprehensibly force a SCOTUS vote before the election, nothing is off the table.

Now if this were normal times and a politician said nothing is off the table what would you think that meant? You would think it meant, oh parliamentary procedures. It might mean that they're trying hard to raise money. They're gonna push all the envelopes. You'd probably think it was something peaceful and clever and strategic. But it doesn't feel like that today, does it? As you're watching the riots and you're watching people say in public, you see the number of blue check people say in public that if they don't get their way it's going to be

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revolution and violence. They say it directly. Now given that violence and revolution are literally on the table these Democrat senators saying that nothing is off the table basically have threatened violence against, here's the key part, against you and me. Our politicians have actually threatened the public. They haven't threatened just Trump. And I'm not saying it's because you're a Trump supp…

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