Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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BS or if it's trying to cover up something and there's no debunk that's real. What do you think before I go through it? Do you think the debunk will stand up or will it be transparent? Let's see your vote before I go on. All right. So here are some of the claims. They're saying that Fox News is inaccurately declaring, this is what Charlie Savage says in New York Times, it says that Fox News is in…

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right? You could think Biden did a ton of things wrong and it doesn't come close to what Trudeau is doing to his country right now. It doesn't come close. Not on an emotional level, not on an ethical level, not on a moral level, not in anything. Biden to me just looks like somebody who's trying to do the best he can. Whatever is happening in Canada doesn't look like that to me. It looks like a personality problem. It does. It looks like Trudeau painted himself in a corner and can't get out. It doesn't look like a candidate problem. It looks like one person has a problem and he's making that his personal political problem is becoming the country's problem.

Now this said there are a number of my critics who said Scott don't you understand the importance of keeping things open? To which I say that's the point. That's the point. The point is that the country has at least a segment of the country has reached the point where they will shoot themselves in their own head before they will give up their freedom. Do you know how, the only way that can be communicated, shoot yourself in your own head. That's the only way anybody's ever going to believe it. And the truckers are doing that. The truckers are calling the bluff like I've never seen a bluff called in my life. They are calling the frickin bluff. And so when Trudeau is acting like he only has one choice, no he has another choice. Freedom. Freedom's always the choice. Now that would probably kill more people but he's got a choice.

And I think the public, here's what I think Trudeau did completely wrong and I would argue that Biden got this wrong as well but not as wrong. Trudeau did not respect the opinion on the other side. Big mistake. Big mistake. I think he could have done everything he's doing now and said you know I totally hear you. I totally hear you. If you'll get out of the trucks I'll put you on TV. We'll talk about it on TV. I think your message is important and I appreciate anybody who's fighting for freedom. He should have been on their side while disagreeing with them. You know what I mean? Had he been more capable he would have been solidly on the side of the truckers while trying to stop them and he could have done that. Trump could have done it. Am I wrong? You don't think Trump could have threaded that needle? He could have. Trump could have, let's say it had been an American problem, Trump could have sided with the blue-collar workers and he could have stopped them. Nobody else could have done that I don't think. I don't think there's anybody else who could have done that. Now of course speculation because he didn't have to do it but I don't think anybody could have threaded the needle like that. And this was Trudeau's opportunity to be at least as clev

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er as Trump in managing the room. Trump can manage the room. He doesn't manage the press because that's a different issue but he can manage the room. All right that is my show for today. I hope you liked it. It's the best thing you'll ever see today and I'll talk to you tomorrow.

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