Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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's about to happen that I don't know if Dominion has calculated in, unless this is actually part of their exit plan to leave the business because it looks like it could be. I'm not saying that's the case because they'll sue me. I'm just saying if you look at it from the outside, it looks like a company that plans to go out of business. But maybe they can win some money on the way out. Because here…

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rtainly not giving him a total pass.

Now interestingly two left-leaning journalists did not agree with each other. So when Yamiche Alcindor, I think she's NPR, when she asked a question, embedded in the question was the assumption that or maybe accusation, depending what you want to call it, that because Biden was a nice guy and he was talking nice about immigration, that that caused more immigration. Whereas Rubin tweeted, "Yamiche makes the statement, unproven, that his words set off the surge. This is factually wrong." Now Rubin of course is not like other journalists. She is a little more of a team player than even people who are team players. But I would say that Biden and his media who are trying to say that the surge is not because of Biden, they did a good job.

Now here was the argument, if you haven't heard it. I think you've heard it. That the surge is actually no different than prior years. And then if you add the fact that the coronavirus caused what would have been a surge to not happen last year, though all you're seeing is this year's normal surge plus a little excess surge because people would have come the year before but they couldn't. So now they're just coming this year. So it's just a big year for surges but not because of anything. It just would have happened anyway for economic reasons and seasonal reasons and everything.

Now is that true? Is it true? Yeah, I'm seeing in the comments I see you saying that it's just not true, that the way they're counting it is wrong. If you talk

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to the migrants, they'll tell you they're coming because of Biden. The interviews I've seen, they say it directly. Would you have come if Trump had still been president? Maybe not. Did you come because Biden said things would be better? Yes, they say it directly. Now I'm not saying that Biden is accurate when he defends himself by saying that the surge is no worse and that he also says that there…

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