Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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me states is very similar. In fact Biden doesn't even lead as much as Hillary was. So are we going to run into the same situation because it looks exactly like 2016? Well a lot of people are saying yes this looks exactly like 2016 so we're going to get the same result. But here's the counter argument. The counter argument from Nate Silver who I hold now as one of the best follows on Twitter. So if…

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ant thing, is the fine people hoax. The reason that I keep hammering on that one hoax when you know politics is full of things that are not true but I keep hammering on that one thing relentlessly is because that's the key.

I tend to think of the world in a physical analogy quite often. When I used to do computer programming years ago I would imagine my program as a pinball machine where the control of the program was the ball and I was putting bumpers and levers and things to control where the ball ends up. So I would translate my programs into physical things so I could manipulate them physically when I was not sitting in front of my computer. So I could do my programming in physical ways like okay I need to build a structure down here. There's going to be a building over here that does this. And I tend to do the same thing with politics. I translate it into these physical models so I can manipulate them in my head. And one of the physical models is that Black voters are literally in a misinformation jail. All right I suppose is that a racist visualization? Probably is so just assume that I don't mean it that way. But I imagine that because they are uninformed and their news sources and specifically in this one area not in general but in this one area they're underinformed which is they believe the fine people hoax was real because their news source tells them it is real and they don't see anything else.

So if you believed that the president really called neo-Nazis and white supremacists fine people and that he said it in public and that he said it with no remorse, if you believe that was true you would believe everything else bad said about him and race. Because if that thing's true anything could be true. So the fine people hoax is not like the other things. It's the key to the jail. And if Black people ever get that key, in other words if the Black voters learn how badly they've been duped intentionally, completely intentionally, how badly they've been conned on that one hoax that makes all the other hoaxes look real, if they ever get that key they're just going to shove it in the lock and they're never going to vote Democrat again.

Now what are the odds that that'll happen? Low. I think the odds of the Black population getting their hands on that key and finding out how badly they've been duped by Democrats is low because they have control of the news sources. But it could happen. It's not impossible. It's just unlikely.

Here's the best, funniest thing that I've heard in a while. Let's say all day. There's a sports commentator, maybe you've seen him, appears on Fox News every now and then, Jason Whitlock. He's Black which is important to this story. And I say this every time, can we ever get to the place where you can tell a freaking story without mentioning the race or the gender of the person involved? Can we get to that point? Like oh I just crave the time when I don't have to add that. And he's Black because it does matter to the story. And what he said was that LeBron James is the Black Trump. And the first time I heard it I

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thought no he's not. How does that make sense? How is LeBron James the Black Trump? And then he goes on to explain it and I go oh yeah he is the Black Trump. It goes like this. LeBron, this is Jason Whitlock quote, "LeBron fashions himself as a dignified statesman, role model, political activist and champion of racial equality. He is every bit as crude, undignified and inarticulate as our sitting…

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