Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
Scott Adams Philosophy Archive
Search ideas
Episodes › Episode #239 › Segments
MainContent Politics as Persuasion

Back to episode — Episode 239 Scott Adams - The Kavanaugh One-Week Delay

Context —

But the other filter that I like to put on this I got from my corporate days. Let's call this the corporate filter. Now the corporate filter is really about any large organization. There are things that are true of a large organization in terms of their inefficiencies, the way they operate, how fast or slow they are. They're sort of common across all large organizations. So the FBI in this case wo…

← Previous segment →

And here's the filter I put on the one-week delay. Number one, the Democrats painted themselves in a corner. All right, so there's sort of a good news, bad news situation here. I'll just spell it out. The bad news for the Democrats is that they made such a big deal about saying it's just one week, what's one week, you only need one week. And they repeated "one week" so often that it sort of hardened in our minds as, "Yeah, these things take one week. It's a one-week situation. One week."

So the clever thing that the Republicans have done, and President Trump and whoever else, the clever thing they've done —

Context —

let me just tell Christina I'm on Periscope because she's much more important than all of you. Sorry, sorry. I'm gonna say I'll get here in 20 minutes. All right, now we're back to you. Back to you. You have my full attention now.

Next segment → →