Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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se the Second Amendment. I mean, not entirely because of that. You know, they want to keep their jobs and get good ratings and all that stuff too. But the people have complete power in this country. We're not Australia. In Australia the government has power over the people. Not here. Not here. Not ever. Not here. Not ever. In America the people control the government, and it's time to exert that c…

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ve a third term, just vote for somebody who will do whatever Trump tells them to do. You could get it that way.

Can you talk about the grocery industry is corrupt? I'll give you one example. When I had my product, it got placed into 7-Elevens, which is a gigantic break for a new food company. We actually got shelf space in 7-Elevens. And then when we went to check to see how it was doing, we couldn't find it anywhere on the shelf. Oh, it was there, but the other food companies, Kraft in particular, they have people on the ground who will come in and put their product in front of your product if it's a competing product. So that's a known thing. It's called burying it on the shelf. So the food business is, and then Safeway, I'll name names, Safeway is essentially a fraudulent operation with the way they treat the vendors who provide food. So they'll sell you some space on the bottom shelf. And when I say sell it to you, I mean they'll make you pay to be in the store. And then after you've paid as much as you're going to pay, they say, well, there was another fee. You say, well, we didn't negotiate any other fee. We've paid everything we're going to pay to be on the shelf. They say, well, you don't have to, but we'll take you off the shelf. You say, okay, okay, okay, I'll pay this

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extra fee. Just keep us on the shelf. And then next month they give you another extra fee. And you say, wait a minute, this is now an extra fee on top of an extra fee. None of this was ever discussed. And they say, you don't have to pay it. You could just be off the shelf. So yeah, Safeway, Kraft, those are corrupt corporations and they run a corrupt business. And the food industry in general is l…

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