Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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is being reported at least in right-leaning news is that students are a bunch of and if they were as tough as they used to be they would just take that hard class and they'd suck it up and that's the way it is and you don't get participation trophies. And I'm completely on the other side of that. I've experienced science being made harder than it needs to be. Is it my imagination that organic che…

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would you watch me if you don't think I could do better than you? You should just sit there alone in a chair instead of wasting your time listening to this because apparently I have nothing to teach you, nothing to say. All right, you need to work on your ego if that's where you're at. Pretty low level of awareness.

Remember I told you that the press would come after me before the elections? Remember I told you there would be a hit piece about me? And I keep waiting for it and there was a very weak attempt yesterday. You know it's so weak that I just retweeted it. You know you failed in a hit piece when somebody retweets it without much complaint. So as a New York Daily News, would you like some context? So this is the part that people don't realize when they're just casual consumers of the news, right?

So here's a newspaper writing something bad about me. It's the New York Daily News. Do you think the New York Daily News carries my comic? What do you think? Now do you think their competitor does? Yes, yes, yes. So coincidentally, coincidentally they're criticizing me without ever mentioning that I'm a primary piece of content for their main competitor in New York City. Just, I just don't mention that. That's just left out. Totally not relevant. No.

Here's what they say about me in the New York Daily News. They call me, they say that I'm a right-wing cartoonist. A right-wing cartoonist. And that I'm the cause of the coming violence. That's right, I'm the cause of the coming violence. I am. Do you know why? Because of my tweets that became viral memes. And I said that according to the article that if Biden is elected there's a good chance you will be dead within a year and also the Republicans will be hunted. No, I didn't say those things. I did say those things but they've decided that they can blame any violence on me.

So by predicting violence I'm the cause of it because I predicted that the Democrats would be violent which causes the Republicans to react and so therefore I'm the cause of the Republicans who reacted to the violence. Oh wait, it gets more amazing. It gets more amazing. Do you think that they mentioned any of the examples that have been used by the right to justify that they are being hunted? Nope, nope. No mention whatsoever of the prominent public headline examples that the right uses to populate this meme and say yes we are being hunted. Here's this example, this example, this example, this example.

The article that mocks me for saying it doesn't mention any of them, doesn't even mention they exist. Simply says that I'm creating a dangerous situation such that if ever there's even one Republican who does anything to any Democrat, guess whose fault that is? Me.

Now I don't think that this was a good job. I mean it was a little article in a rag. I mean the New York Daily News, there's not much left of it anymore so it's not going to move the needle. But I feel like it was a test shot. You know if that had maybe caught on a little bit then other people could say oh let's work on this. Let's turn the cartoonist into the one who's causing the violence because you know me, that's what I do, right? I go out and cause violence. That's a pretty accurate description of me. Not now.

What about the part where they say I'm right-wing? Somebody said to me recently that they checked my Twitter feed and it's all right-wing stuff. And my first reaction was yeah it is not. And then I thought to myself oh I'll bet it actually is. You would definitely if you listen to me on the stream, live stream, there's a lot more nuance and yeah all the time. But I don't think I do it as much on Twitter. So I could actually see how somebody would think I'm right-wing based on my Twitter.

Now I say that I'm left of Bernie and people laugh at me because there's nothing left of Bernie. Yes there is. I am. I'm totally left of Bernie. You want some examples? I'll give you some. Right-wing people might want to ban abortion in many cases. Correct? You know in general, right? Just generalizations. So the right wing is, Bernie would say that he's

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in favor of abortion, right? And I'm left of Bernie because Bernie's in favor of abortion and I'm in favor of Bernie shutting the up with his because his has nothing to do with abortion. He's not part of the conversation. So I'm left of him. I say let the women figure it out and then tell us what you figured out and then we'll all be on board. I'm way left of Bernie on abortion. Right, how about…

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