Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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e orders unless you were a dictator. Now apparently that was completely taken out of context and it was right. It was taken out of context. So how is that different from every CNN story about Trump? Pretty much all of the news about Trump was just stuff taken out of context but they didn't call it out. Now Daniel Dale will have to call out all the times that Biden is taken out of context. So he we…

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t legal? Does anybody have any idea why that's legal? I can't think of any reason why that should be legal if we can't do it in their country.

Now if they opened up and said hey let's just make it the same, you can do whatever we do there you can do here, but that's not going to happen. If we can't do business in their country they should not be able to do business in our country. They should be the same. And why is that even controversial? Who's on the other side of that argument? Is there somebody in the United States who says yeah yeah we really do want the Chinese to be putting their money into our economy? Are they putting so much in that we would go into a depression if they stop investing? I don't know. I guess I need to know more about that. But I've never heard a reason why China should do business with us when we can't do the same kind of business with them. If there is an argument for that I'd love to hear it but I think it's just stupid from a security perspective.

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It just seems stupid. Are you having the same impression I have with Joe Biden's spokesperson Jen? Here's my take on her. Day one, oh she seems pretty capable. You know she seems bright and looked like a perfect choice for the job really. I thought it was a good choice although I feel like they should have chosen a woman of color. But you know she looked very capable and qualified and she had a g…

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