Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
Scott Adams Philosophy Archive
Search ideas

Context —

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…

← Previous segment →

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 the primary reason that Trump thought there was some path for delaying the vote or getting these other fake people in there, fake electors, is he had a lawyer, John Eastman. So John Eastman was the one who came up with the theories about how it would be legal for Trump and his supporters to delay things or challenge things or get different electors or whatever it was.

Now imagine if Trump did not have a high-end lawyer. Remember, John Eastman's not your neighborhood lawyer. He's like a high-end government lawyer kind of guy. If Trump did not have that advice, would he have even bothered? If no lawyer had told Trump, yeah, there's an argument for this, would he have done anything? No, no, no. There had to be a lawyer telling him, well, there's a good chance this could work.

Now as in retrospect, as we look at it after the fact, it doesn't look like that was good legal advice. But how would you know if you were in the moment? If you're Trump and your lawyer says this looks like it could work, what are you going to do? Overrule your lawyer? I mean, you don't know. Eventually you might overrule.

So if you took Marc Elias and whoever he worked with, probably other lawyers, and if you wouldn't get the opinion that shocked the Republicans, if you took Eastman out of it, Trump would have said, ah, damn it, I just lost the election. I guess there's nothing you could do about that.

No. By the way, and then if you take the lawyers out of Congress, they don't even do the January 6 show trial thing. So have I made my case that if you took the lawyers out of the story, none of this would have happened? January 6 wouldn't even be there. There would have been no riots. There would have been nothing except an election. It was only the lawyers that mucked everything up. And if it were not for their flying monkeys in the press to make us think the problem was somewhere else, it would be really obvious to you that lawyers are the problem.

And by the way, they're not always breaking the law. How about if Sidney Powell had not told the Trump supporters that they totally had the goods? Do you think the Trump supporters would have been so worked up if somebody who wasn't a high-end lawyer, somebody you really expect better from, knew they have the facts before they talk in public like that? Do you think they would have been as worked up? Probably not.

This was lawyer problems from top to bottom. And the fact that we see it any other way is a testimony to how easily we can be brainwashed. Because I mean it's only one of the filters or frames you could put on this, but it's the most productive one. It's just a lawyer on lawyer crime. And we're all basically victims of th

Context —

e drive-by shootings by lawyers, and we're acting like it's some other problem entirely. So there's that. What about this gun control bill? So a lot of Republicans are hopping mad, I guess. A number of Republicans signed on to a Democrat gun control bill that includes some red flag law funding. So it's funding for states to look into and or implement red flag laws. And that means that if you thi…

Next segment → →