Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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t story in the world. The FBI has an active criminal investigation into the Biden family in their business. And the charge to look into is money laundering. What? So since 2019 the FBI has been looking into the Biden family on some kind of charge. We don't know the basis for it, but money laundering. Now I'm guessing it has to do with either Ukraine or China or both. And how will we treat that? W…

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it into the back of a wagon. And I would be in the back of the wagon, usually with my brother, and the hay bale would come flying over and then we would have to stack it neatly so that more of them would fit in the back and then unload them.

All right, so you've got a giant machine that can bore tunnels. We've got a giant machine that can turn grass into hay bales and even tie them up and stuff. Can we not make a giant machine that builds border wall? Huh? Because if you've seen the border wall, it appears that there are big segments that are dropped into concrete and I don't know that there's much else to it. So you need a trench, you need concrete, and you need the fence parts stuck into it. Can we not just ask them the question? Can we not build a gigantic machine that just drives down the border going chunk and dropping fence and concrete as it goes? You know, digging the trench, dropping the concrete, dropping the fence, and then just going to the next part and dropping another segment. Could we not do that? Not possible.

Somebody's telling me that the ABC story was from 2019. Is that true? That would be funny if it's true. Here we were giving ABC credit but it was somebody saying it was a 2019 story. And that might be true. I don't know. Fact-check that for me.

So let's get a big wall-building machine. And I think the fiction is starting to fall away that all Trump was doing was replacing existing wall. Now I think it's technically true that the funding and the efforts right now are where there is existing wall and they're upgrading it. But where they're upgrading it is because the wall was so inadequate it was basically not a wall at all. So I think that the president is completely within his rights to say this is new wall. Because the old wall was so unwall-like and useless that it was basically no wall. And the only reason that the old wall was there is that it was an important place to have a wall.

All right, so we've seen the following pattern lately.

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You saw Kanye liking President Trump. Ice Cube willing to talk to the Trump administration. You saw 50 Cent saying some positive things about Trump before some negative things. And now I guess Lil Wayne has met President Trump and endorses him. Now as I've said many times, our brains are pattern recognition machines. That's basically what they are. That's all they are. Our brain just recognizes p…

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