Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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ve as this? Nobody. Nobody else. Nope. Michael Flynn was a victim of our government. He was a victim of our government like a big victim, a big conspicuous victim of the government. He wasn't a victim of a crime. He wasn't a victim of bad luck. He wasn't a victim of natural disasters. He was a victim targeted specifically by the government of the United States. If Michael Flynn says they should a…

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e wealth gap. Does anybody have a problem with poor people doing better? No. It's just how you do it, right? It's the mechanism to make that happen that's the controversy.

And so Joe Biden is going to use government funding to directly benefit Black businesses, and there are a number of other things he's looking into, but they all have the same element. That instead of saying we're going to close the income gap, which a lot of people would say is a good idea as long as you're not just taking it from the rich and transferring it, then it's a different issue. But if you could make poor people richer, I feel like everybody likes that if you can figure out how to do it.

But so Biden has figured out how to do reparations. So instead of asking people to write a check to individual Black Americans who were descended from slavery, which would be almost impossible to figure out how to do it, how much, who pays, who doesn't pay, who gets it, who doesn't get it, that would be impossible. But Biden actually found a workaround.

So let me start by saying good job. You know, the most annoying thing that I'll ever do is compliment people's effectiveness even if I hate what they're doing. All right, now I did it. I did it consistently with Trump. I would talk about his technique separate from whether I liked it or not, right? Or whether I like the policy or not. That's a separate question.

And I'm going to say that Joe Biden was in a tough spot because people wanted reparations, but he really couldn't do that. There wasn't any way he could just figure out a way for the government to cut checks and just give them to Black Americans. That wasn't going to happen. But he found a workaround. He will increase our taxes and or increase our debt and funnel a lot of that money — most of it comes from rich people because that's who pays taxes mostly — and you'll give it to Black businesses specifically and other things that are targeted for Black Americans.

Now that of course is just pure racism. And it's pure racism. So I don't support

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racism in any direction because that's not the country I want to live in. And indeed I would move out of the country if this becomes more of a norm than it is. It's already pretty bad. Now I'm speaking as somebody who's lost a couple of jobs. Some of you know my story. I've written about it a lot. Because I'm white. Specifically because I'm white and male. In other words, my bosses told me direct…

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