Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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shit? Was that Trump? Is Trump the first one who said that? It's sort of — it was Trump, right? Everything woke turns to shit. There will never be a more accurate predictive rule. I mean I thought I was good at predicting but you can't beat this. Everything woke turns to shit. You just see it over and over and over again. Every time you see it it's just destroying something — our schools or our go…

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and say, "Wait a way, why are you stopping this with people of color? That's a big problem but it's only one of them. Why would you stop there? Why would you allow the world to be so unwoke when there were easy ways to wake it up even more? Why would you stop at half woke? I don't want your half woke. Give me full woke. Full woke or nothing."

So I would call this a half woke attempt. I've told you before that the solution to all the wokeness is — do you know what the solution is? To embrace it fully so that if somebody says, "Hey I think something's happening because I'm black," instead of saying, "No that's not happening, there's no racism," that's a dumb approach, right? It might be true in that specific situation. It might be more true than false. But it's a dumb approach that doesn't work. You want to embrace it and take it further and say, "Absolutely you were being discriminated against in so many ways because it's true." You know, systemic racism, totally true. If you're arguing that it doesn't exist that's just a bad argument. It certainly exists in the sense of the teachers unions. That's the worst systemic racism. As long as that's an obvious example I don't think you can say it doesn't exist. And surely it exists in other ways throughout society in all the ways that they describe. But you know what else exists? All the other stuff. All the other stuff really exists. It's true that short people don't get promoted as much. It's true that if you have any kind of a difference — you're ugly, you're overweight, you're whatever — you're going to be discriminated against. So let's get all that in there.

And I think that the best way we should deal with each other is to acknowledge — instead of ignoring the color or ignoring the difference — we should just go right at it. Just go right at it. We should be able to have a conversation like every minute: "I wonder if that happened because you're black." You should be able to bring that up anytime without any kind of provocative pushback. It should be a legitimate question. "I wonder if that happened because you're short." Also legitimate. "I wonder if that would have been the same outcome if you were more attractive." Also totally legitimate. Why not just put it all out there? Put it all out there and say, "Yep, I lost two careers for being white and male." Some of you don't believe that but there's a whole backstory there. In my corporate days I was told that directly, by the way. That's not me reading between the lines. My bosses told me directly they couldn't promote me because I was white and male. Now that's just true. So that puts me on the side of black Americans who have been discriminated against in employment. Why can't I be on their side if I had the same experience in one of the most important elements of society, which is economics? So embrace it until there's nothing left and then we'll all be better off, I think.

Well there's another blockbuster report coming out of the January 6 hearings, congressional hearings. You may not have heard this. So this will be breaking news to all of you. Someone took a lunch out of the refrigerator in the congressional break room and that lunch was labeled with the name of the person who is planning to eat it. But someone unnamed — we don't know who — took that lunch from the congressional break room and therefore President Trump is guilty of insurrection. If you haven't been following the story you know that the blockbusters don't have to have any connection to the point. Could be just some emails somebody found. Could be somebody just testified. They don't have to have any connection to the insurrection. But everything that they come up with, we have learned from CNN, is connected to proof that Trump is an insurrectionist. So until that missing lunch is found I'm gonna have to say he's an insurrectionist because logic. Logic.

You all know about the elf on the shelf. If you're coming to us from a non-American country I don't know if you have that tradition where a little elf doll is put on the shelf during Christmas. Well in breaking news the elf on the shelf got a roommate. It's Biden's legislative agenda.

Rasmussen has a poll that says the House of Representatives — people asked what they thought of how well they're doing their job and 30 percent of them said that's either excellent or good. The House of Representatives. That feels high, doesn't it? Doesn't that seem high? And then in the Senate, 21 percent of them were rated — 21 percent of the public said that the Senate was excellent or good. That also seems high because isn't the approval of Congress in general like in the teens? So this is the weird way that people answer poll questions. If you ask them to approve of Congr

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ess in general it'd be like 18, but if you say, you know, how are they doing, 30 percent said excellent or good. So I don't know which number is closer to reality here. And then Rasmussen asked about Build Back Better. Do people support it or oppose it? 38 percent support it. That's actually more than I thought. Does that sound high? A 38 percent support it. I'm not sure if Rasmussen is going to…

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