Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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human activity was somewhat irrelevant because AI caused us to do what we did. So it was really in charge. That's one way to look at it. The other way is that the Democrats just did a good job on everything they did. Did a good job getting in more people who would vote their way into the country, did a better job of campaigning, controlled the media better. That's another way to look at it. Someb…

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he goes through his legal challenges and they don't work, or he uses the system as well as he can but he can't get a different result? Do you think there's any chance that Trump would try to stay in office if he had exhausted his appeals? I don't think so. I think the odds of that are zero. Not even one percent. I think it's zero.

But what if it's inauguration day and there's still an open question of massive fraud? What then? What then indeed? Well I think that with the help of the media, the media can simply sell a Biden victory no matter how much fraud was involved. And the public will, enough of the public will accept it. So that looks like the direction we're going.

Now because it's 2020 you cannot rule out another surprise. And the other surprise would be some easy-to-prove fraud. So what do you think of the odds that the Trump administration will be able to point to something specific? You know, not just a general hey I don't like these mail-in ballots, but something like that has a video or a witness or something you could just look at and you know it's fraud. What are the odds of something like that will emerge in the next 48 hours or a week or whatever? Pretty high, right? Pretty high. Because when you need a fraud you can always find one. I feel like it doesn't take much work to find a fraud in any of these situations.

Yeah, according to the Constitution, somebody's saying Pelosi is third in line. So even Pelosi could get into the work here. All right. And Pelosi actually lost Democrats in the House. So if you're looking at how bad the polling was, look at how bad. Well I mean they got everything wrong, right? So the polls thought that the House would pick up Democrats. It didn't. It thought that the Senate would flip. It didn't. And certainly thought that the presidential election would be an overwhelming Biden victory. But it wasn't. So the polls were quite off on everything that mattered.

So in a little side story, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize hard drugs. It's like a little side story that is sort of big. So they decriminalized heroin, cocaine and meth. Wow. And by a pretty solid vote. People really wanted that. And I guess they're replacing that with some kind of humane, cost-effective health approach. I am very much in favor of this. It would have been a mistake for the entire country to do this all at the same time. But remember what I tell you about anything that you can test locally or small, you should. If you think it might work, give it a test. But test it small so you don't ruin the whole country.

So now Oregon is going to give us some data that will be really useful. And I would say that addiction is maybe the biggest problem in the country right now. So if they can get any kind of progress on that, that would be a big deal.

By the way, if Trump did lose and does lose, it's going to be because of healthcare and coronavirus, don't you think? I mean those will kind of be the reasons.

Here's a phrase that you might hear. This is from Ross Garber on Twitter who's got some credentials. And he says unless the vote is close enough there's no chance for the lawyers to kick a legal field goal. Unless it's close enough. All right, so far too many uncounted ballots in too many key places. Keep an eye on what he calls the margin of litigation.

All right. So I think maybe he said something wrong in his tweet, but what I take as his meaning is that if the distance, if the final count between Biden and Trump is small, it might be a small enough distance that a successful litigation of something specific, say one state or one metropolitan area, might be enough to overturn it. But if the Biden gap is bigger, then even if you have a successful litigation of some sort you might not change anything e

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nough to close that gap. So you might hear this phrase, the margin of litigation. Is he close enough that a legal challenge could make a difference? Don't you think you would find some pleasure if you're a Trump supporter and it turns out Biden is the winner? Would you find some pleasure in watching the Squad tear him apart? Because he's going to get, I mean he'll just get ripped down to the bon…

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