Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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n? Yeah, so those are the ones that do work. So ivermectin, he says there have been recent studies that even though you can't get to certainty, like we don't have enough time and data to really, really, really, really know, but he says that there's so much and it's so much in the same direction that it's sort of a no-brainer that it works, according to this doctor. Now here's the tough part. And…

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at needs to happen. We're not in the same galaxy with that, just to be clear.

Now here, let me tell you what the big story is to me. The big story is not that there was this one person who said this one thing, because we live in a big world of crazy people. There's always going to be somebody saying crazy things you don't like. Here's the part that just is chilling. She lives in a world, meaning that whatever information comes to her, whoever she talks to, she lives in an environment or a reality in which she didn't think she would get in trouble for recommending physical violence against Trump supporters in public as an elected person. She thought that as an elected person she could suggest violence against citizens who had nothing but a political difference of opinion. Now that's the story. The story isn't that she said it because people do bad things all the time. That's no story. The story is she didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Probably thought she was helping in her own mind. Might have actually believed this was good for the world. Think about that. Think about the level of brainwashing that's happened that somebody could think, well I'll just say this in public. What could happen? I mean that part just makes my head explode. And you know of course that that'll get buried a little bit in the story because it's going to be about her. It shouldn't really be about her. I mean something has to happen there, but it should be the bigger picture, which is why did she think that that was even maybe a little bit okay to say? I don't think she was even a little bit worried. Do you? Do you think she was worried after she posted that that somebody would find that that went too far? I don't think she was worried. I think she thought that that was acceptable public discourse. That's the part of the story that isn't getting covered.

Speaking of CNN creating problems and then assigning it to supporters, here's the funniest one that I've seen lately. They're talking about the denialism, they call it, in the Trump camp. And they're making two points. One is the denialism about the election being fraud-free and being done, and the other is what they call the denialism about COVID being real. Now I suppose you could add on top of it being real that it's not as bad as people think. So that would be what they call the denialism. And they offer this, one article on CNN offers three reasons that connect the two kinds of denialism. So why is it that Trump supporters would deny two things, not just one thing? If it were just one thing then you say maybe it's about the information or the data about that one thing. But if you've got two separate things that CNN is presenting as facts that Trump supporters say just don't exist, here are the reasons that CNN proposes for why that could be. Would you guess that it's President Trump's fault? Of course. They say that President Trump won't admit defeat in the election so you know there's, and he won't admit any missteps in COVID, creating a bedrock of inaccuracy. All right, so they're building their case. So now President Trump says things that CNN says are not true and therefore he's created a bedrock, a bedrock of inaccuracy. All right, now they're going to build their case on that. So they've started with the bedrock of inaccuracy.

Number two, the democratization of information. So they're saying that information can come through the internet as well as through the gatekeepers of the professional news. So you've got a bedrock of inaccuracy and you've got all this stuff that comes in through the internet that's unfiltered. All right, that's two. Then three, as the country gets more tribal, people just like to have villains, good guys and bad guys, so they just take sides. So those are those three answers and those are the three reasons they give that collectively we created an environment in which Republicans uniquely are denialists and they deny that the election was real and

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that COVID was real. So that's their explanation. Let me add my own explanation. Why, what other reason could you think of? What other reason would Trump supporters deny that the election was fair? Could it be because there's no chance it was fair? Could be. Could be. What would be another explanation? Well I'll just put this out there. One possible explanation for why Republicans don't believe t…

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