Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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lawyered up. All right. I think we're going to see a hashtag that says "Trump would have fixed this by now." That's what I think. All right. That looks to be what I wanted to talk about today. Why can't more women be truckers? I don't know if there's any issue with that, is there? You know, I mean you can think of all the usual reasons why they might not want to get into the business. Fake news…

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ing every day now and be right about it.

Use FedEx and UPS offices. Well, I don't know how that would work. The highways are the bottleneck. No, I don't think they are. Well, maybe just around the ports. That could be true. No trucks in California because no independent contractors in California. Yeah, I've heard that issue. There's something about you have to be an employee to drive a truck in California because they don't want independent contractors to be cheating on their taxes or whatever. Again, how easy would that be to fix with an executive order, right? It's an emergency. Every one of these problems don't apply in an emergency. You know, I was saying that during the pandemic when Trump was doing EOs. A lot of people would say, well, you can't do that. You can't do this. You can't do that. And I kept saying the same thing. In a crisis you can do anything. There are no rules in a crisis except that it's, you know, whatever you're doing makes sense. The only rule that makes sense in a crisis is, does this look like it'll work? That's it. Everything else doesn't matter. You can get rid of that stuff.

Yeah, you have to be on war footing. Exactly. Yeah, you'd have to suspend OSHA. You probably have to suspend a whole bunch of stuff, but temporarily it's all doable. Temporarily it looks like.

All right. Why is everybody talking to user eslax? Apparently there's a troll over here that people are taking seriously on YouTube.

All right. That's all I got for now, and I will talk to you tomorrow. I know you can't wait. You're already looking forward to it. Come on, you know you are. See you tomorrow.