Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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om doing stuff, taking their freedom away? How about the freedom to make a business deal and then just break it? Well, we have courts that will make you pay for that, right? So everything about capitalism is a restriction on freedom that if you restrict it in a smart way, what's left, the unrestricted part, becomes more powerful. So anybody who thinks restrictions are bad and taking your freedom…

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know what's true and what's not. We'll still get more about this. It's still fog of war period. But if that panned out and if we could reasonably claim that it made a difference at least in some localities that mattered, wouldn't that be rigged?

And let me ask you this. Has Trump ever claimed that the election was based on something illegal? He probably uses the word fraud. What's the definition of fraud? Does that have to be something illegal by definition or could it be? See, define fraud, because I'm really interested if Trump has said anything that can't be demonstrated to be true. So fraud is defined as wrongful or criminal deception. So fraud would be a non-legal word, but used in the normal way that people speak it would be correct.

Now under the condition that the Zuckerberg story turns out to be true the way it's being laid out, I think it would be legal because I haven't seen any allegations of illegality. Could come later but I haven't seen any. But fraud would be a correct word because it would be wrongful. I mean that would be an opinion but it wouldn't be incorrect. It would just be an opinion based on observation. And rigged, I think you could say rigged and fraudulent. Am I wrong? Would anybody disagree with just how the words are defined?

I think Trump's in actually pretty safe territory because if he keeps on his, let's say the MyPillow approach that there was some kind of a direct changing of votes, I don't know that he's going to look good with that. That would be a bad way to enter an election. But if he entered the election saying look, we could argue all day about what did happen that can't be audited. Let's agree we don't know. We don't have any way to check because there's a lot of parts of the election that can't be audited by their nature, mostly the electronic parts. And he could come out and say look, no matter what you think about illegal activities we can prove for sure, listen this is hypothetical based on the Zuckerberg story panning out, we can say for sure that there was fraud and that it was rigged and that would actually just be technically an accurate statement based on reporting. Interesting, isn't it?

So I don't know if that gives him a path to get back into the presidency without as much friction as he could, but Trump likes friction so he'll probably go for the most provocative way.

All right, here's a story that you hate and I love. It's about the trans swimmer who was breaking all the female records for swimming in college. Now you hate it because it's ruining women's sports, which it is. It is definitely ruining women's sports. Definitely bad for women or women who are born women, I guess, if you want to be woke about it. But everything about this story makes me laugh for all the wrong reasons.

Here's the part that I love more than life itself. So there was an interview with some of the players on the team and here's the actual quotes from one of the players who remained anonymous for obvious re

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asons. Quote, this is one of the women on the team. Pretty much everyone individually has spoken to our coaches about not liking this. Our coach just really likes winning. He just really likes winning. He's like most coaches I think. Secretly everyone just knows it's the wrong thing to do. The female Penn swimmer said during a phone interview. And then she goes on, quote, when the whole team is to…

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