Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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f where the experts were wrong and I was right. When the experts were telling you don't use masks and I said no the experts are lying. I was the only person in the country, the only person, and you could check that. There was not one person in the world who said on day one you're obviously lying about the masks. Now I don't want to get into do masks work. That's a separate question for now and bor…

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seem to be dying by falling down stairs and falling out of windows? Have you heard about all that? And they all seem to be prior people who are close to Putin. And everybody says well obviously Putin is killing all these people who were maybe saying bad things about him. But I have another hypothesis. They stopped saying that they were critics of Putin. Have you noticed that? It used to be a critic of Putin was murdered and you're like well obviously Putin. But then it turned out associates of Putin are being murdered. Is that Putin? Why isn't it Ukraine? Are you telling me Ukraine has now sent out death squads to kill all of his friends who live overseas? And if they haven't, why not? Yeah. And I also wonder if the billionaire friends who lived overseas maybe have some function for Putin that we don't know about. Meaning money laundering maybe. I mean I don't know. Is there something that Putin gains by having billionaire friends that he can control that live in other countries? Yeah I'll get to that. What if it's the CIA? Now I don't know if the CIA can assassinate civilians who don't have an obvious terrorist connection. I'm not sure what the law is there. But could the CIA simply start taking out all of Putin's associates who live anywhere in the world? And if they're not, why wouldn't Zelenskyy do it? Because most of the people who are being killed are people who are high enough profile that you know exactly where they live. If you know where somebody lives and you're a Ukrainian and you think they're on Putin's side why wouldn't you kill them? If this were World War II and Hitler had known associates who were billionaires living in other countries I'd kill one myself. I wouldn't even hesitate. If I were a Ukrainian and I knew where one of these Putin associates lived and I had access to kill him I'd kill him just for being a known associate of Putin during a war. Is that too far? I mean even as a civilian if I could get away with it I'd probably kill him. Yeah and I would probably kill him. So I think that if you understand in the context of war it could have been anybody. Could have been Ukraine, could have been U.S., could have been NATO, could have been anybody. But I don't think it's Putin. If I had to guess I think Putin killed a few and then it made it easier for other people to hang every murder on Putin. I feel like the U.S. is killing people or Ukraine or somebody. We don't know. Just guessing.

There were some fake news that Russians are trying to leave the country through Finland's border but apparently that was based on photographs of just normal lines at the border. So Finland has said no please, there's no escape from Russia going on. That's not happening. And maybe it's not so. And then there was a report that the Ukrainians captured dozens or maybe up to 200 tanks that were abandoned by the Russians because they were retreating so quickly. Do you believe that? It comes from a Ukrainian source and a fog of war so it's totally believable isn't it? No. Yeah no. All right.

Let's talk about fentanyl. So here's what I've learned by reading up on this lately. So China apparently did try to crack down on their internal sources of fentanyl. They were going after the cartels that were going to the United States under Trump. Now the story is, and I'm not sure I believe it, the story is that they did actually try to crack down on it and that they did succeed and that China's flow of fentanyl actually was vastly reduced for a little while. But then the so-called Chinese cartel drug cartels found out ways around it and they sent precursors instead of the actual fentanyl. So they found clever ways to thwart the law. Does that sound even a little bit true? That doesn't sound even a little bit true because if China wanted to stop it for international reasons it wouldn't matter that they found a clever way to skirt the law. China would have just dragged them in and said stop skirting the law. I know where you live. You're going to be dead by Tuesday if you keep skirting this law. And then they would stop skirting the law. So obviously it had to come from the top, right? So I don't believe that China ever was serious in any way about stopping fentanyl. But apparently because of Pelosi and Taiwan, Pelosi going to Taiwan, China has stopped

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even pretending to enforce it. So that's part of their pushback. They're not going to enforce fentanyl. Okay so what do you do? Well here's some things that the Republicans are doing. Governor Abbott in Texas signed an executive order declaring the cartels a terrorist organization which I understand allows them to treat every fentanyl overdose as murder. Now the practical implications of that are…

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