Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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ou see somebody say I'm going to compare one country no matter what country to these three or four or five countries, you can just forget what they're saying because nothing they say is useful. If out of all the countries in the world, I don't know 180 whatever there are, if you're going to take six of them and say I can tell something from these six, that's probably not true. It's probably cherry…

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usion thing and who's behind it. That's filled with lies. It's all about lies. We've got the stimulus deal being off. But the stimulus deal was never really being negotiated. It was a lie that it was ever being negotiated because it wasn't. So that's just a lie. Facebook is banning QAnon because those are lies. The Pulitzer Prize might get revoked or at least some scholars are asking for it because the document that got the Pulitzer Prize had a big lie in it. Do you see a pattern yet? The pattern is pretty clear. All of our biggest problems are based on the fact that we don't have a credible news media anymore. As soon as your news source becomes completely non-credible then all of your news becomes, it's just all, every one of our problems is, the problem is real but what people are saying about it is just not true.

All right, somebody says that I'm conflicted about Kamala because she's my creation. See you get blocked for saying stuff like that because that's a mind-reading thing. So hold on a second. I have to move something in order to block you. Yeah it's not worth it. I'll block you next time. I'll catch you next time. So if that confuses you, the blocking is when you ascribe opinions to me that are inaccurate. You can ask me my opinion and you can certainly criticize my actual opinion. But when you assign an opinion to me that I do not hold and then criticize it, you get blocked.

Somebody's saying Pence is more disciplined than Trump. I think that's true. That's true. He's more disciplined, less interesting.

All right, that is all I have for now and I will talk to you Periscopers tomorrow. And you YouTubers, still with you. You look at your comments here as we close up. Is anybody enjoying the YouTube experience better? So you might have noticed I took out my AirPods that I was using for a microphone. I'm not seeing anybody. Oh somebody's saying the sound is echoing. Okay that's what I was going to ask. So you should hear a little echo. Let me give you a l

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ittle update on the sound because so many of you have asked for it. Now people have said to me, Scott you should upgrade your sound system. Yes, yes I should. I've got every kind of sound device you could possibly think of. I've got a whole rack of high-end sound equipment. I've got this, I've got this and all this. And here's what I've learned because I've experimented with all of this stuff. If…

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