Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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about — he could run for Senate, he could win in Florida, and he could have enough coattails he might actually flip the whole House and the Senate. That's how that could do it. Gets better. You want to hear the good part? And then Trump becomes Speaker of the House. You feel it yet? And then Trump becomes Speaker of the House and takes Nancy Pelosi's job. I'm not done. Wait, I'm not done. Have I…

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t how do you ignore this? I don't know.

Tom Peters, who you may know as one of the most famous business management gurus in the world, had this to say about Bernie Sanders. I guess Tom Peters has lived in Vermont for a long time or he used to. He said, speaking as a former long-term Vermonter, ho-hum, Bernie has never proposed anything that is doable. As if my departure from Vermont, Bernie had accomplished zero in his career other than to be in favor of, quote, good things.

And I think to myself, I don't think that's an unfair statement that he's never done anything except propose things that can't be done. Now what's the difference between Bernie proposing things that can't be done versus Trump proposing things that can't be done? Do you know what the difference is? Trump does.

Both Trump and Bernie have the same quality. They both propose things that can't be done. The difference is that Trump does. Vaccinations, you can't do that in less than 18 — oh okay I guess you did it. Getting some kind of a peace with North Korea. Are you kidding me? You can't have any kind of stability or friendship with North — oh he did it. You can't possibly have a trade war with China and expect that anything good — oh Trump did it. He did it.

So that's a pretty big difference, isn't it? They both promised the impossible but one does it.

Now I know you hate this topic but I always have to throw AOC in here because she's one of the few interesting people to watch these days. AOC, is she Bernie promising things that really can't be done that won't be done or is she Trump? Now she hasn't been in a position where she can do the impossible. She's recommending the impossible. But suppose she were in a position to do the impossible. Could she do it? Trump did. Bernie didn't. How do you know? Well I would not say it's in any way obvious that she could pull off the impossible. I'm just saying it's hard to tell, isn't it? Sometimes you don't know who can do the impossible. But that's an open question.

All right. The other favorite story of the day is watching — this will be my segment — Democrats eat their own. So I guess last night Bill Maher had Charlamagne tha God on and you would see both of them as associated with the left, right? And I guess they were arguing on the show about which of these Democratic leaders is more rapey. Was it Joe Biden who was accused of worse sexual offenses or is it Andrew Cuomo?

And to watch — I wouldn't call Bill Maher a Democrat exactly but at least in policy and philosophy he's more aligned I think at least lately — but watching these two sort of big names in that space arguing about which Democrat was more of a rapist or more sexually inappropriate — not, you know, I'm exaggerating with the rape claim — it kind of tells you where things are going, doesn't it?

And so this is happening in the context of Dr. Seuss getting canceled, the Trump vaccinations saving the world, and Iran is heating up. And if you see Bill Maher and Charlamagne tha God arguing about which Democrat is more of a sexual abuser, do you really think Trump can't win in 2024?

Because as long as Trump stays sort of on the sideline but in our minds, you know, these little press releases he puts out, hit pieces on Karl Rove and hit piece on this or that, are kind of effective because it keeps him in the news but he's not making mistakes because he's not in office, right? You don't have as much to criticize when somebody's not in office.

So I feel as if Trump just has to sort of rope-a-dope, you know, let the other side punch itself out so to speak, and h

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e just has to walk into the job. Now health of course would be the big thing. And let me say as clearly as I can so that I have some credibility here, I don't think we should have presidents of that age. I don't think Trump should be president at that age and I don't think Biden should be president at this age. It's just too old and there's no way around that. Right now I'm going to reserve a dec…

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