Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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s for being stupid? That happened, right? I mean that wasn't that? Give me a fact check on here. Didn't Trump say out loud that Mattis was dumb? He did, right? So Mattis, the guy that we trusted to make our most important military decisions, invested in the biggest fraudulent company of I don't know, last 20 years. I don't think I have a lot of confidence in his generaling. He feels like the kind…

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it'll be hard for you to get an ID, right? Everybody agrees with that, right? So logically won't there be way more white people who can't vote if you do anything to reduce the amount of voting? Shouldn't you have fewer white votes than black? Now as a percentage, as a percentage maybe more black but we don't, elections are not based on percentages, based on how many votes you get. Well I mean ultimately it's a percentage against the competitor but you need to get the most votes. So wouldn't it be better to get every white vote you could even if it cost you a few black votes you could have suppressed if you tried?

So weirdly CNN is taking both sides of the issue. They're saying don't do any voter suppression because it'll be bad for black people and by the way it's not bad for black people nearly as much as it's bad for white people. You gotta have it both ways, right? If CNN is reporting, at least reporting in the sense of an opinion piece in this case, that voter suppression doesn't work and it just makes Republicans worse off, I guess the other part of it is that if you talk about the system being broken it also causes less Republican voting. I don't, I'm not sure I believe that but people are saying that so I guess I'm confused about whether voter suppression is good or bad for black people and it looks like CNN's not quite on one page about it. It's either terrible for black people or it helps them. It helps them bec

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ause fewer white people vote which means that the percentage of black people would be relatively better. No way am I doing the math right but it does seem to me that we don't even know if it's good or bad for any particular group. And yeah we're talking about like crazy. Well the Taliban is bringing back public hangs and they're going to do amputations again. So if you steal something they'll cu…

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