Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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ocky says in all capital letters, "Scott defending molesting a married lady." Am I doing that? Did you see me do that? Did you see me defending? Even though I stopped every 10 seconds to say I'm not defending, I'm not apologizing for it, it's all bad behavior. Did anybody see that? Well you're too dumb to be on this so you are blocked forever. Smart people only. All right, moving on. Is there a n…

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eila Jackson Lee anyway. She got fact-checked hard and good for Representative Biggs. So this should happen every time this hoax plays. Every single time somebody should just say stop and just play the hoax. Now the fine people hoax is one of the biggest parts of the tapestry that says the world is full of white supremacists of the United States. So apophenia is what it's called.

My new first choice for leadership as we're looking for new leaders to emerge is Representative Elise Stefanik from upstate New York where I was, where I came from. Went to Harvard, pretty smart. Youngest person, youngest woman to be elected in Congress I think. And she is — she's got some legislation she's promoting here that would limit Chinese government involvement in American universities. Good idea. And added her name to another bill that would impose sanctions on any company affiliated with or operated by the Chinese military. So Representative Stefanik has correctly identified the biggest problem in the world, which is China, and is promoting legislation which is directly useful. And that's a leader. That's a leader.

So we're all kind of just sort of scanning the environment to see if anybody emerges to be a national leader. I've said much to your dismay that we only have one at the moment if you don't count Trump who's sort of a special case. After Trump there's only one and it's AOC. Now again I'm not talking about managing. We've got lots of managers who are just sort of doing whatever the polls say or whatever their team says. They're just sort of managing the government. But there's only one who's going to make noise, everybody knows their name, is willing to attack their own side if needed as she just did twice in the last couple weeks. That's a leader. You can hate her. You can hate her. You can hate her. I don't care. But that's what leadership looks like. There's only one and we're waiting for more, right? Because you don't want to have one choice. Maybe Elise Stefanik is a possibility.

All right, let's talk about the mystery of coronavirus with India and Sweden. Why do India and Sweden both have mysteriously good outcomes? Sweden is mysterious because they didn't do the harsh lockdowns, although they are considering it at the moment. And India is a mystery because their problem seems to have decreased just like everyone else's but there's no reason for it. They don't have enough vaccinations. The season didn't change. They just don't have a reason for it.

So here's some of the speculation for India. The speculation is that at least I guess in Mumbai, the Mumbai slums, about half of the population has been infected. So they may have antibodies. And then also in at least one other city, Delhi has been 50 percent infected. So in the big population centers they may have so much infection that the virus isn't spreading as well. But they also have younger p

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eople. And I know somebody here is going to say they give hydroxychloroquine. I rule that out as an explanation at this point. Hydroxychloroquine I don't think even makes sense as an explanation, right? I see it in the comments but I don't think it makes sense because it would just be too obvious if it were right. Nobody would be talking about India being a mystery if that was the answer to the my…

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