Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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decision-making process even for your own brain. That has now gone. Again there are exceptions, right? They don't necessarily brainwash every person the same way and just as effectively. But that's what's happening. That's the world you live in now. There's another study that showed that the tone of the COVID-related news articles in the United States, 91 percent of them were negative. Now you s…

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on't live in a world where facts matter. At least matter for persuasion. They matter for reality but not persuasion.

I think the president, when people are trying to understand why does he keep saying things that aren't true when he must have figured out by now they're not true, somebody's told him it's not true. And I would say that the big reality mind effort that some of you are already at and some of you are almost there is this. He might know that it doesn't matter. Indeed he was right. He became president without paying any attention to the specificity of the fact-checking. None. He treated it like it literally didn't matter at all. And what happened? He was right. He was 100 percent right. None of the fact-checking mattered. None of it. What did matter is how the networks covered it and social media handled it etc. But it didn't matter if it was true and it didn't matter if it wasn't true so long as it was well intended to move the country in a good direction. That's what mattered.

Okay, that's all for now. I will talk to you tomorrow. Have a great Thanksgiving. And you YouTubers, still here for you for a minute but I'm going to sign off in a second.

All right. Can President Trump prove election fraud, do it George Washington, and then come back? That's my prediction. That's my prediction. My prediction is that he will do a George Washington, meaning that he will say yeah I won but I'm also going to peacefully transfer. Whether he runs again in 2024, I think that's

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a wait and see. You know it does make sense that maybe he would say he's going to. Maybe he thinks he'd like to. But I think age is just too big of a variable and I'd give it a couple years before you take it seriously. I'm grateful for you as well. So thank you. And I'm grateful to all of you and I mean that quite sincerely. This is usually one of the highlights of my day except for the time I s…

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