Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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with a big hand or a big footprint, I guess. But that would be too far, right? There's a point where everybody says it's too far. And I think Biden reached that. So that's not the biggest problem in the world. The other thing about his speech is that there's a lot of darkness and gloom and it was kind of long and boring and low energy. But it got the job done. Here's a question I have for you. I…

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like that. In order to do that you need a certain kind of personality. Let's say Johnny Cochran. If Johnny Cochran were alive and he heard that idea, what do you think? If Johnny Cochran heard that idea and he were the defense attorney—just lay on the ground, put the knee on you and do your closing argument just like that—he would at least consider it. Now he might say no that's too far or whatever because clearly he was the highest level of defense attorney. So he might say that's a bad idea for good reasons. But I think he'd at least consider it. I feel as if he would give it a good thought.

And here's the thing. There is nothing disrespectful about that. Nothing. It's not even a little bit disrespectful. It's persuasive. I mean if it worked. Right now I'm making a big assumption that I think is fair, which is that if somebody is holding you down with that knee hold on your neck they probably have a lot of leeway in terms of how painful or damaging that is. And I don't think you can tell just by looking at it on the video. I don't think you could tell. So it would be—I don't know how they could possibly convict.

Let me ask you this. If you saw that closing argument and you watched it for nine minutes and you watched the lawyer

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talk normally, could you convict? Because that removes all the reasonable doubt. I mean it's just gone at that point. I would have done it. All right. There's a study in Israel—Israel is in the news a lot—that they think aspirin may protect against COVID. Andres Backhouse commented on that to point out it's a low quality study. And I wouldn't start taking aspirin because number one, you know I us…

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