Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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atever risks they want. But I really don't understand this one. Like I don't understand how you can watch people get brain damage as entertainment. I've watched some pretty bad things as entertainment but I can't watch people getting brain damage as entertainment. I watched a clip yesterday and I don't know if this was the fight or it was the fight before the fight but there were two female comba…

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rstand it at all. But it's personal differences.

So Biden has somewhat surprisingly recognized the Armenian genocide by the Turkish historical state. And if you don't know about this the general sense of it is that around World War I Turkey was getting rid of Armenians and shipping them off to death camps or camps where they died or murdering them. And basically it was genocide. Not basically, it was genocide. And I guess most nations agree on this but in Turkey they teach their own students it didn't happen. So if you're a student in Turkey you will literally be taught it didn't happen.

Now given that Turkey is a NATO ally, right, and you know we don't want problems with Turkey because we need to work with them, it was kind of ballsy for Biden to put the hammer down on them. And I'm going to say again, you know you've watched me say good things about Trump when he was in office and some criticisms. So I'm going to be, I'll try to be at least a little even-handed. I think this should have been done by Trump. I don't know why Trump didn't do this. This feels like a Biden success that was not a Trump success and it should have been. Somebody said he did. That's not true. No, Trump

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did not do this. But I also have to wonder if there's anything behind it. You know is there anything about our relationship with Turkey or anything about the Armenian-American group or anything? I feel like there's something more to the story about why it happened because Biden's kind of cautious and I don't think he causes trouble unless he's got a reason. So I feel like there's more to know abo…

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