Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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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…

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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 thoughts about the past but as long as it's cured at the moment it will probably be cured going forward.

There's a big story on social media that is so delicious. I was worried that things would not be interesting after Trump left but maybe we're just in a world of things are more interesting. So apparently the lights went off in the Vatican. And when I say apparently I mean I don't believe anything. I don't know if the lights really did go out in the Vatican. It's being reported. It's on social media but I don't necessarily believe it happened. But let's say it did. It's being widely reported. This has caused all manner of conspiracy theories and they're all good ones.

So the popular one seems based on one obscure publication with zero credibility and it makes a claim that I'm telling you now is not true. All right I think I can stay on social media if I tell you in advance that I'm talking about a claim and it's not true. Which is that the Pope has been arrested and charged with 80 counts of pedophilia. Now not a chance in the world that's true. Not a chance in the world. Other people are saying that it's related to the other conspiracy theory that Italy had something to do with our election data and you know something went through Italy and then the numbers changed and it went back and so somehow Italy is involved with rigging the election and this is the response to that. Nope. Nope. Lights also went out in Pakistan. Somebody said they went out around the Eiffel Tower. I don't know if any of those are true. Certainly more likely coincidence.

Now some people are saying hey maybe it's that SolarWinds hack and some country is just testing their ability to turn off the electricity in different countries. I doubt you would test it. It doesn't seem like testing it would be smart because you should test it against your actual enemy not the Vatican. So that would be a weird way to test that because if you tested it and you could see that it worked and people found it out then they would be able to harden their own systems against this. So it's not really the thing you should test. You should just do it when you're ready to start World War Three. So I don't believe any of the conspiracy theories. I think just they had a grid problem is my guess. And how would they get past the guards, the Swiss Guard? How would any security force turn off the lights and get past the Swiss Guard without gunshots? None of it makes sense. So don't believe any of the Vatican stories but they're fun.

I saw an interview with, remember that horned protester? The one who got into the Capitol. He had the big Viking horns and was shirtless and stuff. Well I saw an interview with him and the reporter said you know why are you here? You know why are you protesting? And the guy with the Viking horns looked right at the reporter and he said "freedom." Now the touching part about this story is I don't even think he knew what the word freedom means but even so in his simple uneducated way even he knew it was important before he even knew what the word meant. And so he was there protesting for his freedom and I just thought it was poignant. So I just pointed that out.

All right let's see if I talked about everything I was going to talk about. Probably did I believe it did. All right. Poor guy wants to be an act

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or. Yeah a lot of those people are being rolled up by the way. If you ever do a public illegal thing with the cameras rolling you're gonna get caught. I believe we will catch a hundred percent of the bad actors who were in the protest who also had no masks. If they didn't have a mask definitely getting caught. Let me tell you something that Antifa learned that apparently the MAGA protesters did no…

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