Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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tee to come up with a plan for reparations or to see if it's practical and they've spent quite a bit of time so far. And here's what they came up with. It's just a preliminary like beginning decision to throw other Black people under the bus. So progress so far by a committee that apparently is largely Black to decide that only people who can prove they were descended from slavery in America would…

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t I know, DNA or maybe a search of the public records, that they had descended from actual slaves in America.

I'm not sure this committee is moving the ball forward if you know what I mean. I think they came up with a standard that is so provocative that they've reduced the chances of reparations. Am I wrong? I think they just reduced the chance that this could ever happen. Let me tell you what you would have done if you wanted to increase the chance. Just find something that Republicans like too. That's it. Just find something Republicans like. For example, about something that would improve education options for everybody who's low income which would be very beneficial for the Black American community because they find themselves in the deepest hole especially with the education system. So if you say let's fix the education options, you know maybe add choice whatever, for everybody, then the Republicans can say wait did you say for everybody? And then they say yeah. And then somebody says but you know this will disproportionately help the Black public because they're in a deeper hole. And the Republicans say we don't frickin care as long as it's applied evenly. Like right, nobody's going to complain if it's applied to everybody evenly that it has an outcome that's a little biased. That's everything Republicans want.

So make it, it would if it were hard to do it I'd say don't try but given that it would be the easiest thing in the world to do just come up with a plan the Republicans like. Vote done. Bring the country together. Fix the biggest source of systemic racism which is the unequal education system. But if you fix the unequal education system granted there's a whole lifetime of people who aren't going to get that benefit. Or they could maybe do something with training and adult education as well. Maybe. But if you did something that people liked well maybe you'd get something. That's all I'd like to suggest.

How about this? Is it possible for Trump not to be Trump for a minute? Don't we all think that we could be Trump better than Trump? Now here's the problem. For some things it feels like we could but there are a whole bunch of things you know you couldn't. When you saw his letter talking about his hole in one that he got and even people who are not fans had to admit it was well written. It was just hilarious and on point and it was just sort of perfect. It was self-mocking without being too self-mocking. It just had everything. So as an entertainment and a piece of writing it was just brilliant in my opinion.

But then he does this. But then he does this. He's so hard to unambiguously like. All right so I'm a fan of course and I liked him personally when I met him so I liked the family. They were all very nice to me so I have only positive feelings about them personally. But he gave an interview with I guess Just the News, John Solomon. And Trump called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release any d

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amaging information he has about the Biden family. Come on. Come on. He's up something like I don't know seven points against whoever runs against him if he were to run as president again. You know he has this pretty much commanding lead in the situation. The only thing he could do wrong is say something that could be spun as him siding with Russia. It's the only thing he could do wrong. And he k…

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