Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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ar all the smoke we found is nothing but boy there's a lot of smoke. Am I selling my point? I don't know that this is what's going on but it looks like they sold the opposite of what they were selling right? At least at least you have to throw my hypothesis into the mix. At the very least it's a high possibility that this worked just the way it should have worked if you had asked me what would be…

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unless he's vaccinated. Seriously? Wow really? I thought we were past that but it looks like COVID is coming back, right?

You wonder if Biden is going to be taken out because of the COVID. Now let me ask you this. If Biden gets long COVID but won't tell me what it is. Yeah if Biden gets long COVID he's not going to be capable. At what point does Kamala Harris have to take over? Now if you have not had COVID or if you and I had a bad case like I did you don't know how bad this is. Can I get an amen from anybody who had COVID and says I wouldn't want to be president with this in my head, right? How many of you think you could have made presidential decisions under COVID? I couldn't. My decision-making was absolutely degraded. Absolutely degraded.

And let me ask you this. Are you comfortable that he hasn't already been removed? I don't know what his symptoms are but he's so fragile that COVID, long COVID alone should activate the vice president. Am I right? COVID alone should activate the vice president. And let me double down on that. All right I'm going to go where you don't want me to go. If this were Trump same thing, right? If Trump gets COVID in office, he had it right but if Trump gets it again at whatever his future age is, right he did but he was a little bit younger but if Trump gets it at his new age in office you know let's say election plus two years what would Trump be in in four years let's say four years Trump would be 82. 82.

Do the math for me. How old would Trump be in four years? How come you haven't told me that? How old is Trump? He'd be 80 in four years. You're a baby. Do you think that an 80-year-old president should stay in office when they have COVID? I don't. I mean I'm 65 and there's no way I could have made good decisions while I had COVID. No way. You take me at 80 and give me the same COVID that I had at 65 at age 80 you do not want me making any decisions trust me. And I feel like I'm pretty mentally sound and you would not want me making decisions under those conditions. So I think we need to trigger the vice president right away if it's true that he has COVID. Now I get it that the doctor's going to look at it and if there's no symptoms there's no symptoms maybe maybe but if there are symptoms that brain fog stuff is really bad stuff. You don't want that. So I think we need to trigger the vice president right away just for the risk of it. Because the thing is I don't know if Biden would tell you he had brain fog would he? "Do you have brain fog?" "Oh no I don't have any brain fog." What do you know? Yeah what do you know? I don't know. I'm not. See that's the other thing. I'm not sure that people know how much their brain is degraded.

Here's a study I'd love to see. Since we know the brain fog is a thing I mean that's pretty well established I think. Could you do a test of IQ of people who are in COVID experiencing it like not even long COVID just in it and a test of IQ for somebody not infected ever and you do enough of the tests to get an average. I'll bet there'd be a difference. I'll bet you would find that the IQ of a person with COVID is lower. About you would temporarily because it takes your energy away. And have you ever tried to take a test when you're tired? It's a big difference, right? So there's no way that people with COVID are operating at the same mental capacity as people without it, people who have never had it. No way. I mean I'd be lucky if I get back to where I was.

And by the way I don't know if I have. Well I was telling you earlier that I was rereading my writing from 2004 and if you asked me before yesterday Scott did the COVID and the long COVID that gave you the brain fog do you think there's a permanent thing that happened with that I would say no no I feel fine. In fact if you ask me I feel like at the top of my mental acuity right now. No no problem at all. And then I read my own writing from 2004. Modified my opinion a little bit. I don't know if you know where I'm going on this but in 2004 I could write a sentence. Let me tell you I could write a good sentence. I'm not so sure they would be just as good today even though I feel like I'm at 100. But when I read my younger writing I looked at it and said I don't know if I could do that. I don't know. Maybe I can do better. I don't know

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for sure but I got a real, it was a wake-up call when I saw how tight my writing was from 15 years ago. If I write a book today which I'm doing which hopefully will be a gigantic bestseller but I got my questions. Yeah I got my questions whether I'm just as sharp. Here's what I think is happening. I think I'm less sharp but I have more skills in my stack. I think I come out ahead but I think you…

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