Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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n my opinion. It's his opinion. I'm just talking about it. Please, please give me another minute of social media. All right. But when I was commenting about the story Stephen Crowder replied to me on Twitter. So I don't know how banned he was if he's already replying to me on Twitter the same day that I heard the story. So I don't know if he's back or I got the story wrong. Did he get banned from…

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ah I get that everybody's different but we can't have a different bathroom for every person etc. I would like my own bathroom. I'd like to be my own gender so I could not have to share a bathroom when I go to the mall. It's just my own bathroom. People like me, whatever I am.

So the only thing I would put in your head is that while it's perfectly reasonable, perfectly reasonable to argue that you should limit things to two genders for practical reasons, that's very bad for a lot of people because they don't feel they fit into a category, right? So you have to make practical decisions when it comes to how to organize society and not everybody is going to win. But I think we should be more compassionate. The people are just different and not worse, not better, just different. And just take that as our model.

I would like to give a shout out to Brit Hume. He made another wonderful comment today on Twitter and I've been watching you for a long time, you know, Fox News association there. And I don't think I've ever seen Brit Hume say something that wasn't reasonable and backed by evidence. And I don't know if you can say that about everybody that you see on TV. It takes a while before you realize. I was sort of realizing it today. It's like I've never seen Brit Hume say anything that was, I've never seen him even spin a story. And you can tell when somebody's spinning a story, right? That's the most common thing.

So just a shout out for being one of the most useful people in the news business. When he talks I feel that whether I agree with him or not it's just not, it's just like an actual honest opinion based on data and stuff. It's so rare that I call them out. It's like all right because I'm going to be talking about people doing the opposite in the pit.

And what he pointed out was about Dr. Fauci and it explained to me why I'm not as bothered by Fauci as almost everybody else seems to be. Fauci's sort of become our coronavirus Grinch, right? He's sort of the Grinch of the coronavirus and everybody wants to hate him. But I haven't ever felt that and I was trying to figure out why. Like why is it that Fauci could be right or wrong but I don't have bad feelings about him at all.

And Brit Hume explains it indirectly. He wasn't trying to but he says, remember in this tweet he said about Fauci, he said his job is to fight the COVID outbreak. He has no responsibility for children's mental health or education. The economy is someone else's problem. So are missed cancer screenings, suicides and other collateral damage from lockdowns.

And that explained it. Explained my own opinion to me. And that is that I only saw Fauci as a bad cop. And as a bad cop he's excellent. It's not his job to tell you what to do about the economy. It's not his job as Brit Hume points out. It's just not his job. The other stuff. So when you're evaluating Fauci evaluate him on his job. But also you're an adult so you can say it's not the only word on everything. He's not in

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charge of the economy. He's not in charge of children's suicides etc. I mean he cares about those things obviously. He's a human and he's American so of course he cares about those things you assume. But that's why I'm not bothered by him because I see him in context. If you see him out of context and you imagine that he is responsible for the economy and those other things then he would be doing…

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