Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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Go. Did you get the live one? Yeah, it's better, isn't it? No surprise. Well, may I start with the news of the day? The big news of the day is like the big news of yesterday and the news of the day before, because there's not much big news happening. So we need something to be afraid of. Are you ready? Beware of the Delta variant. The Delta variant is coming for you. Oh yeah, you thought you were…

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ted for that one crime if he was forthcoming on the civil case. I don't really understand the details of that, but apparently he got some kind of immunity for the one thing that he was being prosecuted for. And it took them two years to sort that out, and a court finally decided, yeah, you're right, you had the immunity, so you can't be prosecuted for the one that they could prosecute. And 60.

So how often can a rich guy get out of jail with good lawyering? It's kind of impressive in a horrible way, isn't it? I mean, what is it? Is it possible to say every normal criminal who's not famous, do they all also have a get-out-of-jail-free card if they just lawyer well enough? Because really this was just the quality of the lawyering, right? That's the only thing that made him get out of jail. I can't imagine that other people would have gotten out of jail even in the same circumstances.

The funniest part of this story — and when I say funny I mean like you're gonna vomit funny — Harvey Weinstein's lawyer thinks that Harvey will be next. Oh, that's bad. My computer just glitched. Let's see if I'm still on there. All right.

And I love the fact, I love the fact that Harvey Weinstein's lawyer is trying to make a comparison. Because first of all, Cosby is apparently guilty as hell. Sixty women accused him. You know, it's hard to imagine he's not guilty. But to therefore say that because he got off on that one tech

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nicality that Harvey Weinstein is just like him and was falsely accused, it takes a lot of lawyer balls to make that argument. But Harvey Weinstein's lawyer is making that argument, that because this completely unrelated case where the guy is guilty as hell got off on a technicality, therefore his client, who has nothing to do with Cosby whatsoever in a completely different situation, should also…

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