Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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re out, you can't park. Stores are just packed. The restaurants, you can't get a reservation. It is hopping where I am. Now is it where you are? Traffic is crazy again. Yeah, vaccines are working. So New York, the Washington Post has an interesting analysis, if you can call it that. And one of their claims in this article is that because Israel has the Iron Dome, which is pretty good at shooting…

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olved in the Palestinian situation directly was even part of it. But the idea was that if Israel and the other Arab countries got along maybe it would isolate the Palestinians and possibly cause them to be a little more flexible if indeed that's what it takes.

But you're seeing the news trying to say that the trouble with Israel and the Palestinians is somehow negating one of the greatest accomplishments of all time diplomatically, which is the Abraham Accords. So watch how the news tries to make these two different things into one thing.

Now I would argue that the Abraham Accords are holding, meaning that the other Arab countries are not jumping on Israel and pulling out of the accord. Obviously it's a giant success. Obviously you just look at it and you say to yourself, wait, did Israel and those countries that made an agreement with it still keep their agreement? Yeah, even when Gaza is hurling rockets and Israel is responding, it still held. So it's exactly what it was intended to do, which is isolate the Palestinian situation and maybe make that easier to either deal with or to solve in the long run.

So it is disgusting to watch the fake news try to turn a gigantic success into a failure by making it look like it was really intended to do something directly with the Palestinian violence, which it didn't. It was never meant to be a direct address to that problem.

Matthew McConaughey is apparently quietly putting out feelers to see if he should run for governor. Now apparently he polls so high that he might actually win if the polling were accurate and held. Now what do you think of that? Do you think that whatever problems we have will be solved by a Governor Matthew McConaughey?

Well I liked him a lot more before he did those Lincoln commercials. Is it Lincoln where it just is so cringy from beginning to end?

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I don't know. He apparently does have a college degree in some kind of arts or some kind of bachelor of science in some kind of communication or arts sort of thing. And he was thinking about being a lawyer at one point. So apparently he's academically smart. So he's got that working for him. Academically quite smart and he's well-meaning and probably liked by both Democrats and Republicans to some…

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