Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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ace theory is the way. Imagine a world with no critical race theory and no media pushing it and no wokism and none of that. Would white supremacists be as dangerous as many people think they are? I don't think so. I think that white supremacists, just like everybody else, respond to the news. So if the news is telling them they're under threat, what the hell are they going to do? So it seems to m…

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is that the government is not doing a good enough job saying if you get your vaccination, at least you can go back to something normal. Rather, Biden is still talking about normal, but the actual guidelines are not so normal. So I think the conservative criticism is accurate. But CNN is saying that Biden is doing this. I don't think he is. I think he's doing it a little bit, which is really different from saying if you get your vaccination, do anything you want, which I think is what mostly conservatives probably want.

Here's an interesting fact. Apparently Obamacare is getting stronger during these hundred days. You know, 800,000 Americans were enrolled, blah blah. And even CNN said we've reached a place where fewer people are talking about repealing the Affordable Care Act. That's true, isn't it? I don't feel people even talking about repealing Obamacare.

And here's something that I told you early on, in which I gave Obama incredible credit for, and I'm going to do it again. I know you don't like this, but any nod toward any objective analysis just has to include this. You probably didn't notice this, but when Obama was explaining why he was backing the original version of Obamacare, he said in direct language — so this is not my interpretation, he said it in direct language, I'm paraphrasing but very directly — he said our plan is to put out a bad plan. Again, I'm paraphrasing. He didn't say that. Our plan is to put out a bad plan, get the public pregnant with it, and then it'll be too hard to take it away, but it will be possible to fix it. So he intentionally, and said it directly, I'm going to put out a bad plan. Again, he didn't use the word bad. You know, it was like imperfect or something. I'm going to put out a bad plan and I'm going to make people not be able to get rid of it, and I'm going to make them have to fix it.

What happened? He put out a bad plan. People couldn't get rid of it. They had to fix it. Now, I don't know how fixed it is, but 800,000 people just signed up for it. And it is true, I don't hear many people talking about killing it. Obama pulled off one of the most clever persuasion strategies you'll ever see, and he told you right in front of your face, which is the fun part. He told you what he was doing and then he just did it and it worked.

Now, you can hate Obamacare. That's a separate issue whether it's good or bad. But technique-wise, 100, A-plus.

China tariffs. Even CNN noted, and I'll read exactly what they say: It's notable that Biden has not reversed Trump's tariffs on China. How about that? Didn't you kind of think that Biden

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might reverse the tariffs on China and go a little easy on China? Doesn't look like it right now. Again, if we're going to be objective, got to give him credit. He did not reverse the tariffs, and that's got to hurt China. But the way Biden talks about China is different from Trump. Trump was more competitive, more directly saying we've got to do more stuff. Biden's plan, which I'm not sure is a…

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