Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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fleet of firefighting drones? A little too soon for that. I don't think we have the technology. But if they were helicopter drones, could they not do what the Chinook did? You know, maybe you just need the human pilot at this point. But at some point that's what I think it's going to be. At some point I think forest fires will be spotted by drones and then the first phase of suppression will be dr…

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attack it's foreign? I think it's foreign, yeah. You could argue that maybe it would help somebody in the election but that's a little murky, isn't it? I don't really see how that's going to help any American, not really. So I feel as though it's got to be foreign. And who would be the most likely culprits? China or Russia? China or Russia? China. You don't think Russia isn't Russia more implicated in bots? Both say both. Well this is a specific attack so I mean it's Iran. Yeah it feels Chinese but that's just a guess.

All right, so I guess I'm a little late on this story but we're still talking about Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia and he did a fist bump with the Saudi crown prince there. And the fist bump was even... Even Adam Schiff criticized Biden. Is that the first time Adam Schiff just directly criticized him pretty aggressively? And I gotta say I didn't think I would ever respect anything that came out of Adam Schiff's mouth but that was exactly the right thing to do. Yeah, I hate to give him credit but he just went hard at his own party for something that was perfectly appropriate criticism in my opinion. Can we give him that? Let's see if we can fight with our confirmation bias and our team spirit just to give him that, right? Schiff is a piece of... He's like one of the worst human beings I've ever experienced in public life, just an opinion. But I'll give him that because he went after his own team and it was the right call.

Now what do you think was in Biden's mind when he did this fist bump? What the hell was he thinking? Because the fist bump, it feels to me like that is a clear sign of a lack of mental, let's say, sharpness. Did it seem like that to you? I don't feel like that was some cleverly thought out thing he did. I don't know that it was just a spontaneous thing and he thought, oops, as soon as he did it. I feel like he should have been a little more prepared for that and it feels like his advisors didn't have control over that. You know, it wasn't on a teleprompter or something. I feel like that was just a sign of age. What do you think? Did that look to you like it really could only be explained by his mental decline?

You know you have to be careful because if you're already primed to think that everything is his mental decline, you know I already debunked that handshaking thing where it looks like he wants to shake hands and nobody's there. That's just a fake video, fake in the sense that they cut off the fact that he's just gesturing towards something. He's actually gesturing to where they're going to walk or should I walk over here or are we going over there. So if you don't see the whole stage it looks like he's trying to shake hands with a ghost but that's debunked. That's nothing. So maybe just like the handshake maybe we're all just primed to see it as what it's not. Who knows? Maybe he thought of it. Maybe it was intentional. Who knows? But it's pretty awkward that we send our president over there who said the Khashoggi thing's the worst thing and they should be treated as a pariah and then when he gets over there to talk to the pariah he's like, fist bump, fist bump. You know I didn't see it but I'm sure I wouldn't have liked it.

Now here's something else in the news that I want you to shake your head when this happens. I'm going to tell you the news and I want you to just go, what is happening to us? A

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ll right, here's the news that the president went over to Saudi Arabia and asked them to pump more oil and the Saudis said that they're basically close to capacity so there's not much they can do. Is that the headline you heard? That they're close to capacity so there's not much they can do, right? And then did you read the numbers? So the headline says they're close to capacity, there's not much…

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