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videos where she was not being asked by, I think, the committee, she had said separately and earlier that there were things that needed to be looked into in the election, meaning that maybe there's some questions that should be answered about the election. Now that's pretty different from saying the election was rigged. And do you think that those two things are necessarily incompatible? Here's m…

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a question. It's just automatic.

Now suppose you've been taught to be a lawyer. Don't you think lawyers get a certain circuitry burned in? And I'm not exactly sure what that circuitry is. But if you look at Adam Schiff, and I believe he's an attorney. Am I right? Correct me if I'm wrong. He's an attorney, right? I feel like they all are. So can you confirm that? Somebody says nope. Somebody says yes. Anyway, it feels as if whether he's a real one or wanted to be one, it feels as if these public hearings are attorneys who couldn't be attorneys, like actually successful big trial lawyers. It feels like play-acting for attorneys, this show trial thing that we're seeing. And now it's like we've seen several of them from the Democrats. It looks like attorneys trying to be attorneys, doesn't it? It's like they're play-acting. They couldn't do it in the real world.

So it made me think of that old joke: those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym. Well, in the lawyer world it's like those who can't become successful lawyers teach, and those who can't teach you how to be a lawyer run for politics and they're in Congress. So you end up with like the lowest level of a lawyer by the time you have a politician who's also a lawyer. Not every time. I'm making sort of a generalization. But then you've got these people who are wired for this model of how to solve things.

All right, I'm a lawyer, so the model of how to solve things is you have some kind of public event where evidence is displayed and there are representatives and there's somebody who's like a defendant. You're accusing somebody. And then there'll be other people who would be like a jury, but not really a jury because it's not a trial, but we'll make it like it's a pretend trial. And then I'll get to stand in front of the world like I'm a famous trial lawyer and I'll make my impassioned case. And then everybody will look at me and they'll say, wow, look at that impassioned case that that excellent lawyer made who was not good enough to be an actual lawyer so he had to run for office.

So much of this looks like play-acting because it is. I think it actually is. If you put me in government, what would I be doing so much that you would hate it? I would be saying, have you considered the alternatives? Have we really seen both sides of the arguments? I would be doing that until you were so sick of hearing it that you would puke, because I'm wired that way. I'm just wired that way because I studied economics and business, etc.

If you randomly select a lawyer from anywhere, throw that lawyer into government and say we've got this problem, what do you want to do about it? What's the lawyer going to do? Well, the lawyer's going to do whatever the lawyer was wired to do. How do you solve a problem? Probably some kind of evidence gathering, then a public event. There's got to be a villain. It's got to be a jury. They're just wired that way. So we keep getting all these impeachments and show trials and stuff. Why? Because that's who we hired. We hired people who can only do this. If we wanted to get some plumbing fixed, we should have hired a plumber. If we wanted to solve a problem, you don't hire lawyers. Lawyers aren't there to solve a problem. They're there to fight. They're there to put on a trial. They're just wired a certain way, and they're wired the wrong way for what we need them for.

Are you ready for the point where I make my case so strongly that you'll never be the same again? January 6. Imagine January 6 if all the lawyers were not part of the story.

Number one, it is alleged, and I may have some of these facts wrong so help me on the fact-checking, it is alleged that lawyer Marc Elias was part of a larger effort to change some of the election rules, partly because the pandemic gave some impetus to that, but more largely because they knew those rule changes would help the Democrats. Now if, as many allege, and I'm not sure how to know this is true, if as many allege that made the difference, wasn't that the thing that shocked Republicans after the election? It's like, wait a minute, this didn't go the way we were all pretty sure it would go, and it's so far off from what we expected that we think there's something fishy going on.

So if Marc Elias had simply never existed and the election had been run the way elections had always run before, maybe unfairly, maybe unfairly, Republicans would have had an advantage and Trump would have won, and then there would be no January 6.

So am I right? So this is the first case. If Marc Elias and pe

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ople he worked with who probably did similar things, if they did not exist doing what they did, Republicans would not have said, wait a minute, this result doesn't look right. And maybe it was all legal, by the way. I'm not alleging anything illegal. They're probably just good lawyers and they made sure they changed laws that helped their clients or their interests. Here's another one. Apparently…

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