Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive September 14, 2026
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about Locals. It's not about Rumble. It's not about 2000 Mules. It's about streaming. Streaming is now so hard you just can't do it. Thirty percent of the time you gotta do it you just don't. You end up doing something else instead. Yeah look at all the yeses to this. Now I know this is a boomer problem right? You don't hear anybody who's 30 years old arguing you know even talking about this stuff…

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don't know about baby formula. So I have more things and I would say that the wait for goods that I ordered by mail is not too bad. I've probably ordered I don't know 25 things by Amazon in the past month say. Twenty-five things. I think one of them is and it's a trivial product delayed a month. That's about it. And it was trivial.

All right. Ports don't work that way somebody says. They don't work that way but they could. There's no reason you couldn't put the important ones to the front of the line. I don't see any physical reason you couldn't do that. Food is from the USA. China stuff is delayed. That's probably what's going on. That the food is mostly US food but we've got massive droughts and we've got problems with fertilizers and all kinds of things. So we'll see.

Elon Musk tweeted this today or yesterday. "If I die under mysterious circumstances it's been nice knowing you." What? No further explanation. If I die under suspicious circumstances or mysterious. Now let me ask you this. Do you think he's serious? Do you think he's seriously concerned that somebody will kill him? I think yes. Yes I think that's real. I think that's absolutely real. I don't think the odds are very high but I think that's absolutely real.

Now do you think that if you're the richest person in the world you have access to presumably politicians and power brokers and the people who really can see behind the curtain, aren't you a little worried that somebody who can see behind the curtain way better than you can thinks that there's somebody back there who might murder him for what? Buying Twitter and finding out what the deal was there? I feel as if he already knows he's going to find something at Twitter that will be really really bad for somebody who has power. What do you think?

Now he's being ambiguous here so we don't know what topic he's even referring to. You know we don't know if it's based on some specific information or just a general fear. Could be just trolling. Could be just being interesting. Who knows? But I'm worried about it because he knows more than you do about how stuff works in the real world right? I know a little bit and maybe more than some of you just because I have access to some stuff but he has way more access than just about anybody right? And he probably is already getting, here's my guess. This is pure speculation. Can you see any possibility that Twitter insiders are not already talking to Musk? Don't you think that's already happening? Don't you think there's somebody who wanted to suck up to him in the technical world and said look before you get complete control of the company let me tell you what's going on here and where to look. I'll tell you where to find the bad stuff. You don't think that's happening?

There's got to be somebody who thinks it's in their best interest to do exactly that. There's got to be at least one secret conservative or patriot or just free speech person. They don't even have to be Republican or anything but there has to be at least one person at Twitter who knows how to reach Musk and knows what the deal is. Don't you think by now he's probably heard at least rumors of why he might find? And if the rumors about what he might find or how he might control Twitter also is enough to make him worried about being murdered there's probably something there. But we'll see.

So after he tweets "If I die under mysterious circumstances it's been nice knowing you" his mother tweets "That's not funny" and then he tweets back to his mother. Maya Elon tweets "Sorry I will do my best to stay alive." How small the world gets when you know you feel like you're talking directly to Elon Musk and then he's talking to his mom and you're part of the conversation. It just makes the whole world seem so small and personal. It's kind of awesome.

And then some Saudi person with a lot of followers was saying that if he, something about a blessing if he dies, and Elon Musk replied "I'm okay going to hell if I die because the vast majority of all humans ever born will be there."

Now remember when you thought that Trump was the best tweeter of all times? And maybe he is. Maybe he is. But you can't get much better at tweeting than this. And sure enough his tweeting to replace all marketing is working again. I mean I could not be more interested in Twitter right now because of his involvement. And I'm sure that my Twitter numbers are probably still going up. I think it has more to do with him buying the company. Let's try. Let's see. I'll check my Twitter growth now because we all, a lot of the conservative leaning folks had big bumps. Let's see what happens. Is it still high? Yes it is.

So the day before Elon Musk was announcing things my numbers were anywhere from under 100 new followers a day to you know 300 would be a good day. As soon as he bought it these are the number of new followers: 300, 10 times. So on the day they bought it I got 10 times the number of new followers. The next day 20 times. Next day 10 times. Next day 15 times. Next day about eight times. And we're still at, today or yesterday was 856 new followers. So it's a it's some kind of a multiple or two or three or something or ten. Number of followers. And I don't feel that that's just the shadow banning thing being loosened. I feel like it might be just more people coming to the platform. So I think his marketing might be working. And by the way that's what he says. He says it's just people coming to the platform. You might be right.

I've noticed that Elon has responded directly to Mike Cernovich at least several times and it's interesting to see how much he's on that. Cernovich is on Musk's radar. They clearly have some commonality of thinking about some of these important things. And one of the most interesting ways to watch the news is to watch who knows who to know who's influencing whom and what alliances are being formed. And so Mike Cernovich pointed out a left-wing account that was talking violently and noting that that person had not been banned by Twitter. And Elon Musk responded to that tweet from Cernovich saying that Twitter obviously has a strong left-wing bias. So there it is.

So there's no doubt about what Elon Musk intends nor about what he thinks about this whole situation which I love.

Are you following this whole situation with Steve Schmidt? He was one of the Lincoln Project anti-Trumper famous people and he went on this tweeting tirade where for somebody followed it and said for 24 hours he just kept tweeting like crazy and hardly took any time off from tweeting. And it takes a minute and a half just to scroll through all of his tweets for that one day. And people are asking is there something wrong with him? Does he have a mental issue or is there some kind of drug he's on? And of course we don't know right? We're just watching him act differently.

But as someone smart said the only times they've ever seen this kind of a change in behavior wasn't because of mental health. It wasn't because of a sudden mental health problem but people have seen sudden changes like this when some kind of drug was involved. Now I'm not suggesting he's on any drugs. I'm just saying his behavior looks unusual for his past behavior and it looked like drugs to me. So again I'm not making that allegation because we're just observers but there's something going on.

And I think that we have to, when somebody says he's a narcissist and that's what's going on it could be. It could be that that's all that's going on. But t

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he Amber Heard or Amber Turd trial has definitely alerted us to how a certain group of people act you know with projection and gaslighting and lying about everything and blah blah blah blah. And it seems to me that this looks exactly like something's going on there. So there's either you know personality disorder, mental illness which are sort of cousins, or some kind of change in medication or dr…

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