Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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I actually totally agree with the Biden interpretation. I think that if you took the simplistic explanation of a recession of just two periods of negative growth, that doesn't make sense coming out of a pandemic, because coming out of the pandemic just changed everything, right? So if you had a temporary reset — I shouldn't call it that. If you had a temporary depression coming out of a pandemic,…

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o me. But here's the part that I'm not going to be able to unsee. The reporting from Wall Street Journal, which I believe is false, says that the quote affair happened during a time that Sergey Brin and his wife were separated but living in the same home.

Now let me connect the dots here for you. The Wall Street Journal says Musk had an affair with somebody who is single. You see where I'm going with this? That's not an affair. That would be two single people having a date, if it happened, which apparently it didn't. Do you know what an affair is? I had to look up the definition because I thought I was going crazy. I thought I was going crazy. I go, did I — what the hell do words mean? I thought an affair meant that somebody was in a relationship and the person they were in the relationship with was unaware that they were doing somebody else. Did we stop using the word affair to mean that? And now an affair is two single people who are dating?

Just think about the fact that this Murdoch property, the Wall Street Journal, did a hit piece on Musk in which the entire story, first of all, is probably based on fake information. But even if it were true, the story would disprove their own reporting. If it were true, which it isn't, their own story the way they reported it disproves their own conclusion with no ambiguity whatsoever. Am I wrong? The meaning of the word means you're not single when it's happening. If you're single, which is what they reported — separated means single. There's nothing here. So there's this giant hit piece that's based on probably nothing that really happened, and if it really happened it would still be nothing. Still be nothing. And it's a major story. How do you explain this other than Murdoch wants to blunt Musk's power?

I feel like Elon Musk was becoming too influential in the news business simply by tweeting and maybe taking over Twitter. We don't know if that's going to happen, but I feel like Murdoch was feeling that his own — this is just speculation, right? I have no way of knowing this, but the speculation is that Musk is — you're going to be hit with these hit pieces because the more powerful Musk's persuasion is, the less powerful Murdoch's entities that he uses persuasion for would be. This looks like a billionaire fight. What would you say? I think it's Murdoch versus Musk, and there's nothing else to it. That's what it feels like. Just speculation.

Well, the Pope has gone on an apology tour. He's visiting Canada to apologize for the church's role in — well, listen to this allegation, and I guess the Pope is confessing and apologizing, so I guess it's beyond an allegation. So this is history, I guess. So it's a pilgrimage of penance, he says, to apologize to the indigenous populations for — I guess the Roman Catholic Church from the 19th century through the 1970s, right? So a long period of time. More than 150,000 of the indigenous children were taken from homes and put into residential schools run by Christian churches on behalf of the government to assimilate them. They were taken from their families and put into residential schools, which means that they literally took people's kids from them. They literally took people's children from them and put them in residential schools. Now, you know, even if we acknowledge they were well-intentioned, yikes.

But here's my question to the Pope. It feels like a little bit of a slippery slope to start apologizing for the history of Catholicism. At what point do you feel you're done? If you start apologizing for things that the Catholic Church has done over hundreds of years, where exactly do you draw the line and say, well, I think we've apologized for everything. It's all covered now. I'm not sure you could ever be done with that job. And you know, if you're new to my content, let me remind you I'm pro-religion. So I'm completely pro-Catholicism, pro-Islam, pro-Buddhism, pro-religion, because people do make religion work for them and it benefits their life, you know, despite any abuses by the organizations themselves. And I just think it's funny. You can see how apologizing doesn't work, right? Even if it makes you feel good at the moment. When an entity like the Catholic Church starts apologizing, I just don't know where you stop. At some point you just have to say, yeah, we sucked in the past. Let's see if we can get it right.

Catholicism. Somebody says it's pronounced Catholicism. That's not right, is it? All right, well it doesn't matter.

How many of you think that Klaus Schwab, the person associated with the Great Reset — how many of you believe that he once said that in the future you won't own anything and you'll like it? How many believe that he said that? In the future you won't own anything and you'll like it. Have y

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ou ever tried Googling that to see if that actually really happened? Never happened. It's one of the most pervasive beliefs on the right. Never happened. Nope, didn't happen. I'll tell you what did happen that people think happened. What he did say is in the future you might have things delivered to you by drone that you would rent. That you would have things delivered by drone that you would ren…

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