Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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nt but as soon as we're efficient come on in. Oh Tucker reported it last night. Somebody's saying I didn't see Tucker last night but I didn't see it on the I don't think I saw it on Fox News page this morning or on CNN. How is that not the biggest news in the country? The biggest news in the countr

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y should be that the president just invited Mexico into the United States and said the only thing stopping you is you know we're not efficient enough to process you but we're working on it. What would be bigger news than that? Like what?

It's the damnedest thing. I've told you this many times but every time you see an example of it it shakes you. Which is the things that we're told are the news are not the things that are important necessarily. They're the things that the news business has decided they want to report on. It's something they're going to you know have a theme that goes through the season you know it's like a story with an arc and everything. But then you see other stories that are like gigantically important. I mean enormously important story. But if the news business just decides to de-emphasize it it's like it never existed.

All right. What else we got? So CNN this was weird. On CNN Jeff Zeleny who's a senior Washington correspondent wrote an article in which I almost can't believe this happened. He was basically giving Republican Governor DeSantis credit for being right on how he handled the coronavirus. This is weird. You don't expect it right? So CNN actually has an opinion piece where they say they're calling out a Republican governor for getting it right.

Here's my problem with this. I think we're ascribing intelligence to luck. Here's what I think happened in Florida. I think Florida made its decisions on let's say political philosophical grounds which is favoring freedom over you know safety a little bit. And that somebody was going to get lucky because one of the things we've learned is that we can't tell if leadership decisions are making much difference across the world you know country to country etc. We can't even figure out what works because there are places where the same thing that seems to work in one country didn't work at all in another. There are places like Japan where they basically hardly did anything about the pandemic and it didn't affect them much. We don't know why.

And so here was what was going to happen. There are 50 states. It is a

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guarantee that somebody was going to do well out of the 50 states compared to the other states right? Just somebody has to be in the top half of performance. And the people making these decisions were not making these decisions based on their superior data or their superior judgment. They were making the decisions along political lines. Somebody was going to get lucky. His name is DeSantis. He got…

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