Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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exactly the opposite graphs that as soon as you get a vaccination you get the disease and the number of infections skyrockets. They can't both be true. And I feel very confident in saying that vaccinations are not causing more COVID. And I feel very confident in saying that we do know by now that they work. Now if you're worried about long-term complications that's something we don't know about r…

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ust Google Healight, H-E-A-L-I-G-H-T. That's the technology. That is the UV light that's injected into the body via trachea, you know a ventilator-like device into your trachea. And that was in the news and around social media at the same time that Trump was talking about it. I had tweeted about it. I talked about it. It was a real thing. And he talked about it as UV light. He clearly was aware of that technology. Whether that becomes a good technology or not, probably not. I mean most things they test don't work out. But it was a real thing. And MSNBC said that he was talking about bleach or disinfectant or something. Just amazing. It's amazing that this can happen like right in front of you. So the propaganda is just over the top.

And I feel like there was something I was going to tell you that I forgot but maybe I didn't. Oh yes, this. Given that I've reached 100,000 subscribers on YouTube which I think was kind of a tightrope between getting canceled and not getting canceled but so far I haven't been canceled. And I was inspired by the story that I told you about the young woman who wouldn't kneel and she sort of inspired me a little bit honestly to do the following tweet. All right. And I tweeted this. We'll see if this gets me canceled.

I said as a general rule I try to not care about anyone who acts as if they don't care about themselves. That's why I don't care about anyone who resists arrest. It's still a tragedy but it won't ever be a priority of mine. I do care about ending systemic racism by teachers unions. So that's in my tweet. Now let me tell you the technique I had to use to keep myself from getting canceled here. If you don't know how to do this don't do what I did because you could so easily get canceled for a tweet like this if you don't have enough technique.

So let me tell you the technique that's in it. Number one I did not say that I don't care about Black lives. That would get you canceled because of course I do care about Black lives. Number two I did not say all lives matter because that'll get you canceled. So I stayed away from the third rails that are the obvious ones. But I'm still in dangerous territory right because I'm saying very clearly that I don't care about anyone who is resisting arrest. And the theory is why should I care about someone who's not acting as if they even care about themselves? I get that it's a tragedy. It's a tragedy for the person. It's a tragedy for the police officer. You know nothing good comes from a shooting. Tragedy for the family. So it's definitely a tragedy but it's not my tragedy. And if I'm going to rank all the tragedies to care about it's going to be close to last. You have to at least care about yourself before you can even come to me and ask me to care about you.

And although I can't read your mind if you're acting exactly like you don't care about your own life I don't care about you. I really don't. So when I watch any police shooting of somebody resisting arrest I just don't care. I really don't. Now I understand this tragedy and I do actually I do care about the family. So I care about their surviving family because they didn't do anything right. The family was just minding their own business. So it's a tragedy for them. But I don't care about the perpetrator because they took that away. You know if you're not going to act, just at least act like you care about yourself, then I'll get involved. I'll care about you too. But I'm not going to help people who can't do the smallest thing to help themselves. That's just a complete waste of time.

Has anybody here ever tried to help somebody who was a lost cause? How did it work out? In the comments let me see how many of you have tried it. Have you tried to help somebody who was just too far gone and you just wasted your time? Just nothing good came from it. How many of you have been in that situation? Look at the comments. Yup. Yup. Never works out. Yep. You give up. Yes. It red pilled me. Oh somebody says it worked out good every once in a while. Many times. Yes. Yes it didn't. Yes. Yes. Save your breath. Yeah I would say the minimum requirement of not wasting your time, let me restate that. The minimum requirement to care about other people enough to help them out is that you have to see they're doing something for themselves. Like that they have some intention of things working out. There are tons of people who have no intention of success and it's very obvious they have no intention of succeeding, no intention of being a good citizen. And what can you do?

That's interesting. The best advice you ever gave me was on deciding. Let me restate that advice. So usually here is saying the best advice I ever gave was about deciding. And now what that was was the difference between wanting so

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mething and deciding to have it, right? The people resisting arrest and getting hurt they want to be treated right and they want to be safe and they probably want to live but they haven't decided. Because if you decide it's got the seller. So I can't tell you how many times over my career somebody has called me a sellout. Now let me summarize by saying that that comment sort of labels you as an id…

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