Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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ur freedom. There's nothing in the Constitution that would require that. Scott, Scott, Scott you low information idiot. So that's what I've been listening to for the last 48 hours. Let me add a little to that argument. First of all to my critics who explained to me that freedom of speech is a feature of government and not private industry, let me respond to you this way. I knew that. Pretty much…

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he Democrats in this case, if you tell me they're not pressuring the social media companies to get rid of Trump well that's just stupid because you can see it. It's right in front of you. They're actually doing it in public. Am I wrong that the government is in public calling for the social media companies to ban freedom of speech for a member of the public? This is happening right in front of you. I'm not making anything up. You're watching it. Everything I've said except the internal intent part is something you can just observe.

On the plus side Trump derangement syndrome was cured. I don't know if you've noticed that but TDS has actually been cured. And here's why. For four years Trump haters were sure that he was the devil and Hitler but every time he did something it wasn't matching their opinion. So if your opinion doesn't match your observation it's like he's a racist. Wait he did what with prison reform? Whoa. He hates the Jewish people. He did what with the embassy? Wait Israel is going to name a town after him. So we've had four years of the worst imaginations of who Trump was being completely opposite of observation. In order to square the circle they had to patch it up with hoaxes. So they would put in the fine people hoax to prove the thing that was observably not true. So they patch it up with a hoax and that's what your cognitive dissonance is. So cognitive dissonance which is Trump derangement syndrome is when your observation and your belief don't match so you have to connect them with a hoax or an illusion or a hallucination. So that's what it is.

Now what happens if you get to this last part last week of Trump and finally finally for the first time, that's my dog sleep barking if you hear that. Hey Snickers I have to wake up my dog. She's ruining my whole Periscope. Okay so what happens when you finally get a situation where somebody who thinks Trump is dangerous can observe how he acted about this Capitol protest stuff and they could say finally finally my opinion and my observation they finally fit. So good. So good. Now because they're also idiots they believe that this one observation cancels out all four years of his accomplishments. So the belief from the TDS recoverers because they are recovering, it's the first time their observation matches their belief. Now they're revising the last four years to say well nailed it, nailed it. Yeah maybe Trump did accomp

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lish more than any president in the history of presidents. I think that's true for the economy and for world peace and for trade negotiations and prison reform and all kinds of stuff. But well he sure screwed up that last week that's for sure. So I think in a weird unexpected way and I mean this literally I think Trump derangement syndrome was kind of cured accidentally. Now they still have crazy…

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