Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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Watergate? Until in your mind it's true but it's not true at all. It's the same play. If it turned out that this was the one time that the affidavit was actually valid and legitimate that would be a break with pattern. You get that, right? I can't tell you what's in the affidavit. I don't know. But if it turns out that the affidavit had actual solid evidence of some kind of a criminality, let's sa…

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But already 39, no how many, 18. Arizona plus 18 others. That's 19 in total state attorney generals are seeking answers from BlackRock who's sort of the big entity that's trying to force companies into doing this ESG stuff. And these companies are basically demanding to know why BlackRock is causing the companies that they influence to invest unwisely when the states are putting their pension money into these investments. So they're basically saying ESG might be a good idea, it might not be a good idea, but it definitely is going to lower the returns of the investments or has that risk anyway. And so the attorney generals are saying we're investing our money in these companies and we need these for retirement accounts and such. Can you please stop telling them to stop making money and maybe focus on the profits and a little bit less on the social good?

So we'll watch this. And here's the question I ask: is ESG fascism? Now fascism would be defined as the government controls not only the corporations but also the labor unions. So if the government controls business and labor that's fascism because it's one entity controlling all the important stuff, all the money. But ESG by its nature is sort of like a shadow government by design. It's meant to look like a shadow government in the sense that it's creating a bunch of standards and then putting pressure on companies, a variety of pressures, to make them conform to what this one entity is telling them to do. Now it's not technically fascism because they're not technically the government. But they are designed to operate like one in the sense that they're trying to impose standards on people without them electing them.

So to me it looks like a pseudo-fascism. It's not really fascism because they're not technically the government. But if you set up an entity that acts like a government and it controls not only business but labor directly and indirectly through influence, it's fascism-like. It's exactly what you don't want. One entity telling your companies and labor what to do. You want them to compete. You do not want them controlled by one entity in that way. So I would say that ESG is a form of fascism. It's like a pseudo-fascism. That's what it is. This is pseudo-fascism.

All right. Well it seems to me that we've covered all of the important points of the day and it's 7:47. Well 10:47 where you are perhaps. All right. Do you think many want to believe the fake news? Yeah I mean the reason fake news works is that some portion of the public wants to believe it. So if the fake news said you know Trump murdered somebody on Fifth Avenue, really people want to believe that. This would be a good story. So yeah the fake news is based on people wanting to believe it.

Antifa is against ESG, are they? Oh yeah. Minneapolis teachers union agreed to a contract which gives priority to non-white teachers. So there's a union contract for teachers that says if there are layoffs the white teachers go first. If

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there are layoffs the white teachers go first. It's in the union contract. So yeah there's some stories where you don't need any commentary. Do you? Is there anything I need to add to that? Like your mind just filled in everything that needs to be said about that story. They have an actual signed contract that says that white people will be fired first. Do you know where that happened before? Whe…

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