Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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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…

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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 the worst job ever. But he's not. He's only responsible for his little wing and he's acting exactly like a guy who's responsible for that little wing. So just keep that frame in mind when you're judging him. I think he's very valuable. Very valuable. I don't agree with him on everything but I think he's very valuable. You just got to keep him in his box as to what his job is. That's a very good addition from Brit Hume.

Of course the Tiger Woods accident is all the headlines because it's Tiger Woods. But what are the odds that the best golfer of all time can't drive straight and ended up in the rough? I feel as though this simulation is just messing with us because really, really, the best golfer in the world, he can't drive straight and he ends up in the rough. That feels, doesn't even feel like a coincidence. It just feels like the simulation ran out of ideas and it's just recycling stuff.

But of course we, you know we, everybody cares about Tiger Woods. One of the things that Tiger Woods does and I don't think he gets enough credit for it, he does get credit for it, but can you think of anybody in the world right, but I'll say the United States just to keep it local-ish but it would apply to the world, is there even one person who doesn't like Tiger Woods besides maybe his ex-wife? I don't know. He's like the most popular person ever.

And I think that his contribution to social cohesion and any racial stuff, he's one of the most productive, useful, best things that's ever happened to America just by being good at golf and being at least partly black which people see as black. So I don't think we can understate his contribution to the betterment of our social situation just by being black somewhat and excelling and being such a star and being so likable. I mean I think he's just good for the world.

There was a sports guy who got in trouble, Andy Scholes, because he sort of speculated that painkillers were part of the story whereas there is no evidence of inebriation. But he hasn't been blood tested yet. I would like to say that maybe Andy Scholes did get a little ahead of himself by speculating that he wasn't surprised about Tiger Woods's accident because Tiger Woods has a history of painkiller use and maybe overuse. I think he went to some rehab for it. But it is premature. It would be premature.

Somebody says 7:30 a.m. and he crashed. That bat, well that could be if he were taking any kind of painkillers because he had pain and he did have back surgery recently. You would take them at any time of day, right? You'd take them whenever they were prescribed. So yeah that could certainly be a factor. But I feel like it explains it. Does it? How do you explain the extent of the accident that he went so far? I don't know that. I don't even think drugs can explain it, right? I feel like there's at least one other thing that we don't know about. And even if he has some painkillers in his body I don't feel like that's what happened. Somebody says he was probably texting. I don't know. He could have been texting but it just looks like something else happened unless the speed was so high that that fooled you.

On the plus side the SUV that he was in, the Genesis GV80 apparently performed well because the entire front part of the car was crushed but Tiger survived in a pretty bad accident. So a shout out to the makers of the Genesis vehicle assuming the vehicle was not part of the accident. It looks like it may have saved his life. So there's some good engineering there.

Romney is saying that if Trump ran in 2024 he would easily win the nomination. What do you think about that? Do you think Trump would easily win the nomination? I feel like he would, right? Because you'd have a number of people running and he would certainly get at least 25 percent of the vote just like the last time. And that would be more than any of the others individually got. So just the fact that he's the biggest fish who would be in that lake, the biggest one gets nominated. So it does look like Trump. I would agree with Romney that if he ran again he'd at least get the nomination.

I would be very skeptical that he could win the election. He may be too crippled by the assault on the Capitol. But he could win the nomination.

Now that brings up the second question of who are the leaders in this country anymore? I feel like we have this gigantic vacuum of leadership both on the left and the right. Now there are certainly people that are being talked about for running for president but none of them have really the kind of star power that we're used to. And maybe it's just the Trump effect. We have an expectation of a certain amount of star power but maybe that's unrealistic.

So here's my take and I want to tell you that if you will be bothered in the future about me saying that AOC like Trump has real skill even if you don't like her policies you probably don't want to follow me because I'm going to be talking about it a lot. And the reason I'm going to be talking about a lot is that AOC is the only leader in the country right now.

Now I don't like the things she's talking about in every case. Some of it I do like actually. But so I'm not agreeing with her policies but I would say she's the only national leader we have at the moment. I know that's a big statement but I think it is. And she is very wisely, which I mean I think she's guaranteed to be president eventually. You just don't know when.

So this here's my prediction. AOC is guaranteed to be president eventually unless there's some new scandal that we don't know about. But if she just keeps doing what she's doing she will be president. And here's the thing. You can back a leader that you don't agree with if they're leading. At least they're leading, right? I backed Trump as you know even though there were a number of things that he wanted to do that I would not agree with such as deporting 11 million people when he took office. Right now I knew that he wouldn't do that and he didn't. But I can back a leader who has things in their policies I don't like as long as they're a leader because you need the leadership, right? You can't do without it.

And I would say AOC is now the only national leader if you don't count Trump who's sort of on hiatus at the moment. I'm watching the comments and watching people throwing up. People are going into spasms. No she's not a leader. She's a fake. AOC or a fake isn't saying anything because all leaders are putting on a show. So she's putting on a show. And if you say to me but wait she's fake because she's just putting on a show I say what did you think Trump was? He was a guy who was smart enough to know how to put on the show and it worked. The same skills.

All right. So AOC is in the news again because she took on the Biden administration for reopening the Texas migrant facilities which in the past have been called kids in cages. Although the actual cage may be down the road if the numbers keep coming in the way they are. But still it's a facility where you're locking up kids. And AOC came out publicly and even though it's her own party she said this is not okay. And she said never has been okay, never will be okay no matter the administration or party. She tweeted that. That's leadership. That's leadership.

All right I'm going to delete you. All right let me give you a rule here. Everybody who says that when I talk about AOC's skill that I'm really having a crush on her, I'm, you're just going to get blocked because I don't want to deal with that level of high school mentality, okay? People can be female and also good at leadership. Can we not accept that that's like a thing? So goodbye to Kent. All right. If anybody else wants to suggest that my real interest in her is because she's a woman I'd like to block you right away so I don't have to deal with that anymore. Okay. All right.

Who else would you say? I'd like to see in your comments. I've made a claim that some of you don't like that she's the only national leader at the moment because she's going against her own party. You're not a leader if all you're doing is agreeing with your side. Did Trump always just agree with his side? He didn't. That's partly why there's so much trouble, right? He was always fighting with his own side. If you're not fighting with your own side in addition to the other side you're not a leader. You're just a team player.

All right. So until you see somebody cross their own party line you're not talking about a leader. You just talk about a political hack basically. So AOC has done it twice in the past week. I forget what the other one was. But we have one leader in the country like it or not. Give me another name of somebody who would fall into that camp.

I'm seeing Rand Paul. T

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ulsi. Tulsi is a good name. And that I would say Tulsi compared to AOC would be, I hate to say this because I really like Tulsi Gabbard as a political voice, but I feel like she's the Mike Pence to AOC being Trump. I hate to say that. That's really not a fair thing to say. But Tulsi doesn't bring the heat, you know, the energy. And partly because her personality is sort of low key. So she brings c…

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