Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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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 differ…

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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 bad one so far — I'm going to be open-minded about this so far — but here's the situation. He said explicitly, and then he's modeled it, that he's not going to be insulting China. He's just going to be competing with them. But if they cross the line, he's going to be tough with them wherever we need to be tough. But mostly he's not going to be insulting their ways. He's going to be just competing with them.

Now, Dan says I'm out, idiot. You know, if there's anything that I said that makes you say I'm out, so far you're probably just an idiot. I can't even listen to this because he said something good about Biden. Is that what just happened? All right. If you can't handle the fact that sometimes Trump can do good things and sometimes Biden can do good things, you really don't belong on this livestream. You should just go away. I'm out too. Bye.

Craig says good. I don't really want anybody on here who can't handle hearing that the other team did something right. If you can't handle that, you should go away immediately. So if there are any more of you who would like to go away, I'd like to see you do it right away.

All right. So is Biden's plan better to talk nice to China and let them commit genocide on the Uyghurs and harvest organs and just sort of put a little pressure on them about it but don't care too much? I don't know. It might be fine as long as he keeps the economic pressure on them. And he's doing a lot of other things like pushing electric cars and batteries, and he's got the made-in-America thing going on.

I would say that Biden has, number one, accurately identified China as our biggest future problem. Do you have a problem with that? Trump did the same thing, right? So both Trump and Biden have now accurately said China is our biggest challenge. I can't argue with that. They're both right. And Biden has kept the tariffs on, kept the pressure on. He's going to fund industries that will compete against them.

Now, did you also hear — I don't know if this is true, but I saw a story that said China's population decreased for the first time ever. Did you hear that? Maybe not the first time ever. I don't know about World War II. But is that true? China's population decreased? Because if that's true, they probably have an old-people bomb coming, like a lot of retired people. Like a lot of retired people. Like a lot, a lot of retired people. And that's sort of in their future. I feel like they're in a lot of trouble. Like a lot of trouble. I don't know if they know it, but they are. I'm sure they know it.

So I'm not going to give Biden a hard time for not being hard enough on China. He's got a strategy. Maybe it's okay. But it does seem to leave the Uyghurs out. It does seem to leave any political people who

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are being oppressed out. It looks like. But maybe there was nothing we could do about it, right? Unless you're going to attack China, nothing was going to change. Apparently Vice President Harris has been put in charge of the American Jobs Plan, which is really the infrastructure plan with a different name. So now she's got the immigration, at least in terms of the South American, you know, firmi…

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