Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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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 accompl…

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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 extent.

I don't know if he needs to be governor because I don't know that there's a problem there in the first place. I mean, is Governor Abbott doing a bad job that I don't know about? I mean I've heard criticisms but all the governors are getting criticized so I don't know if this is a problem that needs to be solved. But I feel like there's something terribly broken with the world if Matthew McConaughey can become governor.

Somebody says he wrote a book too. You know I think Reagan was a

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different animal because he was always political even when he was an actor. But I don't know. I just don't know about actors becoming governors. Just doesn't feel like a good trend for the long term. You know, arguably even Arnold Schwarzenegger was kind of political before he ran for office. All right, how many of you saw the 60 Minutes on the UFOs? So there are more videos of alleged UFOs which…

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