Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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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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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 not learn. Those masks can come in handy. Don't rule out the mask if you're going to be going and doing something illegal in front of a thousand cameras.

Somebody's saying that the Viking horn guy is an actor. I think he's also an actor but he seems to like protests. So here's a little thing that many of you don't know. There are people who just like going to protests and so there are people who go from protest to protest. It's almost like a vacation hobby. I spoke to one a few years ago. I talked to somebody who literally would say hey there's a protest happening. I don't think he even cared too much what it was about. He was just all down for protests. So he just liked traveling and being part of the protest and stuff like that. So I think there are people who perhaps the Viking horn guy just likes the ambiance, just likes the practice.

All right. Civil disobedience means no masks. Well you have a good point. If it's really civil disobedience where you're not doing a crime then no mask is better. Yes if you don't have a pandemic it's better. It's also being reported coincidentally that the Pope's personal doctor died of coronavirus I guess yesterday or today. So there's a lot happening in the Vatican but I don't think we have to worry about it.

All right that's all for now and I will talk to you tomorrow. Okay YouTube you will be happy to know over on YouTube that I finally got my adapter so that I can charge my iPad at the same time I've got my microphone connected. So thanks to several of you who suggested I get that adapter.

The five died of COVID? No no they didn't. John Brennan could be charged with treason if there was an insurrection. You know I don't think the deep state is going to get charged with anything. Why does your YouTube get more time? I'm sort of training people that Periscope's going to go offline in a month or two, a few months I guess. So Periscope will not be a product pretty soon. So I'm slowly accustoming people to maybe they should be on YouTube but I don't want to push it yet. So I just give them one more reason to be here and they can choose for themselves.

Poland is passing laws against big tech suppressing speech. I don't know what kind of law you can pass. The problem is any law you pass is just going to be a problem. That's why I think we have to treat it as a medical problem because at least then you can have data and say you know this hurts and this doesn't. Maybe bring in Rumble when it goes live. So Rumble doesn't have a live option? I don't think it does. And when you're dropped from YouTube then what? Well I'm on the Locals platform. It's a subscription platform. If I get dropped from Twitter I would probably lower my price on Locals. Right now it's seven dollars a month for content that you won't see anywhere else. I do a lot of micro lessons on persuasion and systems for your life. So if you like those things I think the people who are paying seven dollars a month think they're getting wildly more value than that. At least that's what they say.

We regulate private companies all the time. Yeah but it's hard with opinion stuff and freedom of speech and what's appropriate. That is just too subjective. A bundle package would be good. We're looking into that actually. We might do some bundle packages and Locals will have a live stream option I think at some point. It doesn't have it yet but if I had to guess where my fate is probably getting kicked off of the major platforms and probably only doing things on Locals eventually. But I'll stay on the other platforms as long as they'll keep me. By the way it is my intention to never say anything that would get me kicked off a platform because I don't think I have to. I don't think there's any necessity to say anything in a way that would get me kicked off of any platform and if I do that's on me isn't it? Because if I don't intend it well I guess it could be on somebody else if they just decide to get rid of me.

All right. What's Locals? So locals.com is where a number of creators go if they have content that is maybe not quite appropriate for the general public. So a lot of stuff that I do especially the political stuff is nuanced. So in the general public you can't say hey somebody did a good job on this but a bad job on this. You just can't do it in the general public. You just have to take a side and say your guy did everything right the other guy or gal did everything wrong and that's it. So if you want to see anything smart you're gonna have to go somewhere

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that the general public doesn't exist. Yes Patrick Byrne and others have said Italy was involved but I'm not looking to that. I'm not expecting that to prove out. Could be wrong. Yeah I'll do more robots read news. I need to get back to that. All right that's enough for now and I'll talk to you tomorrow.

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