Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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od. Oh, that was a fresh one. That was good. Shall we start with the good news? Does anybody want the optimistic take on today? I got it. If you were to pick one person that you would trust to tell you what is going to happen with the stock market in the United States in the long term, who would it be? No fair saying me. No, no, because you know where I get my information. I get my information fr…

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ould it be that all of you are so close to the exact right answer? It's 26%. How do you do that? How do you do that?

Wow, okay. Look out for the fake Laura Ingraham quotes. Are you seeing them all over the internet? So it's something taken out of context. So what Laura Ingraham did say on, I guess, a podcast, somebody else's, that we'd have to wait and see if voters are tired of the drama of Trump and are ready for something else. So she was speculating about maybe the voters would have a certain attitude at this point. That got turned into Laura Ingraham's turning on the president or turning on Trump.

Now, is that what you heard? If somebody says the public might be ready to turn the page, but I don't know, does that sound like she's turned on the president? No, it sounds like she's making an observation that literally every person in America has made. Is there even one person in America who has not made the following speculation: I wonder if America's had enough of this? It literally is closer to saying absolutely nothing than it is to saying something surprising and newsworthy, because there's literally no one in America who hasn't at least asked the question, not talking about themselves, but at least asked the question: are other people maybe over it, you know, and want something different? And that turned into a big story. Literally nothing.

So here's the biggest story

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that I don't know anything about, and I'm excited anyway. Do you think I would be stopped by a complete lack of useful information about a story? No. Have you met me? No, I'm not going to be slowed down by a complete lack of information. I'm going to take the most positive spin I can take, and I'm going to give you my hot take on it. Are you ready for it? So you remember there was a company, or s…

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