Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
Scott Adams Philosophy Archive
Search ideas
Episodes Episode #1531 Segments
QandA Politics as Persuasion

Back to episode — Episode 1531 Scott Adams - Now!

Context —

ecorded yesterday are all fine. And in fact the show before Tucker's was fine. Like it has a little lead-in. It records like a minute before the show starts and that has audio. As soon as Tucker starts, the audio goes off. And I thought to myself, oh darn, it's my device. So I went to a different device. Same thing. The app is called Stream and it's part of the Xfinity, the cable company where I l…

← Previous segment →

ccording to the picture. And I had never seen the picture until today. Yeah, it's still provocative, etc. But the people who seem to be smart on this topic don't think there's any real risk. It looks like it may be for internal politics because there's some big Chinese meeting coming up. So it's probably just for internal reasons. So I think you can stop worrying about that one right away.

Well, finally the company is, the country is coming together because the people who are against vaccination mandates are gloriously, gloriously all over the map. So you got your Black Lives Matter, you got your Christian conservatives, you got your police officers, you got your teachers, so you got your Democrats, you got your Republicans. I can't think of another issue that unified the country this much, can you? Airline pilots, thank you. Yeah, it's weirdly, I want to feel, I want to join the rest of you and feel anxious and bad about the division in the country because we're all talking about it, but I'm not feeling it. Like I know it's there. I'm not denying the division in the country. I'm just saying that a lot of this stuff looks like the normal and maybe even preferred evolution of thought. Meaning the fact that the government took control during the emergency, wouldn't you want that? Don't you want the government to take a firm control even if they make mistakes? It's your best bet during an emergency. I can see somebody says no. Well, I like that you're consistent. So I appreciate the people saying no, I don't want that. I don't want the government to ever take control in any situation. That I feel that's a legitimate opinion and I won't criticize it because it's consistent. I imagine that those saying that just always say that. So if you're consistent, I support you.

So let me just put it in my opinion. In

Context —

my opinion, because obviously a lot of you disagree, in my opinion the government needs to take control in military matters and maybe a big crisis like this. Did they do it well? That's a separate question. But I think it's your best bet. Now I'll accept that you disagree with me on that, but it's only good if the people can take it back. The people need to regain it, you know, grab it back. And o…

Next segment → →