Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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ike certainty. So Amazon is way up. Well that's interesting. Bitcoin has been having a run so that's staying solid. The broader market is up solidly. Apple's way up. Israel's up. I've got a fund of stocks in Israel and that's way up. Interesting. What the hell. Okay. I'm just looking at a comment. Did you notice they changed the way we voted at the last minute? Just looking at your comments. Some…

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slash movie hypothesis. The movie simulation theory suggests that Trump will reverse some of the votes.

Now if I said to you there's a presidential candidate and he's going to challenge the votes and he's going to have them reversed and it will be enough of them that it changes the election, what would you say in general? In general you'd say I don't think so. I don't know if any president who's ever done that. But it's Trump. Trump consistently does things you didn't think were possible. I don't have to do the list. You've seen the list. But you know he's finding peace in the Middle East. He consistently does the thing you think I don't think anybody could do. Oh he just did it.

So if you say to me the only way he could win is to do this highly unlikely play of getting a bunch of votes tossed out, very unlikely that anybody could succeed at that, but it's 2020. And it's Trump. He could. I'm not going to predict it. I'm going to say that if the movie filter holds this was the third act. And I have to say that there was nothing that happened before this that felt completely third act-y. The other things that have happened before this seemed big but they didn't quite seem like a crushing final blow. Today's vote count feels like a crushing final blow, doesn't it? So that's either real or it's the third act. We'll find out.

Somebody says Trump should pardon Hunter. I don't know what good that is. Somebody says they prefer the low budget movie where Nevada turns red in a few hours somehow. Yeah maybe.

So the slaughter meter, at least in terms of the vote, I would say is pretty close to zero. So in terms of winning it on the first count I would say the odds of Trump winning it just because the votes came in his way is pretty close to zero at this point. The odds of prevailing in the long run still exist, meaning that when he digs into this Michigan vote count there might be something there. I'd bet against it. There might be something there. So we'll find out.

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ow so far. It's so 2020 that it couldn't be more 2020. So we'll find out what's what and we'll find out if there's any room for this to change. And I will talk to you soon.

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