Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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today kids might play one sport, right? It's really different. But if you're looking at somebody my age and you say that they didn't participate in sports you're almost always wrong. Almost all males my age played every sport. You know I'm exaggerating a little bit but you get the idea. So no that's not it. My opinion is based on this: I've played co-ed sports. So co-ed soccer and co-ed tennis. A…

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far left and the far right would agree on the anti-war. They would come together. They would fix something that was important through their being on the same side. And for a while I thought to myself America can finally come together when it matters. You know when the big things matter America comes together. The progressives. And then I read an article that says that the progressives didn't mean it. And Representative Jayapal, she withdrew that letter that was the subject of all this and says it was released by staff without vetting. How do staff—how in the world would your staff release a letter like that without vetting? How in the world?

All right you're an—if you'd waited two seconds you would hear me saying I don't believe them instead of saying Scott believes the squad he never learns. You used red pill now I guess he's coming around. How about waiting four seconds before you criticize the messenger? Goodbye.

So let's talk about Fetterman as we're talking about peak absurdity. So he started off his thing by saying good night to everyone. So good night everyone when he began his debate. Now is that an example of someone whose brain is not working? Good night everyone? Probably not. Probably not. Suppose he had said good evening everyone. Good evening. What's the difference between good night and good evening? It was night. He says good night everybody. Does good night mean goodbye? Does it mean hello? Good evening usually means hello. Good night usually means goodbye. But correct me if I'm wrong was he not working off a teleprompter? Was that not his first sentence on the teleprompter? We don't know that do we? Because I've got a feeling that the teleprompter said that. He probably just read it. Now if all he did was confuse evening with night, not the biggest problem in the world. So I don't know how to judge that one but it happened.

However he did—I guess his team accused the closed caption company of being laggy and maybe inaccurate and so it made him look bad because he was reading things that didn't read right. And the company that made that system and tested it with them and gave him more opportunities to test it to make sure it was just what he wanted says we gave you all the time you wanted to test it. You didn't do it. And it's exactly what you said was good and then you said it wasn't good after we gave it to you. So I think I'm going to side with the company that produced it because they did. I do think they gave them a chance to test it.

John Cooper who's a Twitter user tweets that every time MAGA hears Fetterman stumble over a word tonight they mocked him. Every time I heard him stumble I felt inspired by his selflessness and bravery. That's the difference between a liberal and a scientist, John Cooper. And I thought to myself this has stirred my competitive juices. Now I'm not proud of this but I'm just sort of reflexively competitive. Like I can't turn it off. It's just always there. And when I see a competition like this to be who could be the most peacock-like person in public and who can say the thing that makes them look the best while pretending they're talking about an issue. So I thought I can top that. I can top that.

All right so here's the bar he set. On John I'm going to try to exceed this. He says every time I heard him stumble I felt inspired by his selflessness and bravery. I'm thinking okay that's good. That's really good. I can beat that. And so what I tweeted was I'm too competitive to sit on all the peacocking today so I would like to submit my entry that proves my humanity and awesomeness. And this was my entry: John Fetterman is so brave and selfless that I have commissioned a statue of him for my front yard. If all you did was vote for him I win. I win, right? I think I win. I mean I might be a little biased in the scoring but I think I win. Statue beats tweet doesn't it? Statue beats tweet every time. Declaring victory.

I saw this other two movies on one screen tweet from a Twitter user Point Logic. He's got his Twitter handle is Socrates Big Bird. So this is somebody who likes logic and Socrates and stuff. And so this logical person says according to the maggots—so I'm picking up some cues that it might be a Democrat or a left-leaning person because he's calling the MAGA people maggots. According to the maggots, Fox News and a load of other goons—hey I wonder if I'm one of those goons—but according to the maggots Fox News and a load of other goons he says their message is that vaccines kill you, Paxlovid kills you and Remdesivir kills you. But these meds used for other things that are proven ineffective for COVID in all caps are quote miracles: Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine. And Point Logic asks why is this happening? Why is it happening that we've divided into two movies on one screen where one says vaccines kill you, Paxlovid kills you, Remdesivir kills you and the other says Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine work? What's your answer to how that happened? How did it happen?

Well I have a hypothesis. Here's my hypothesis: the complete collapse of experts. Once experts became no longer credible—and I think that that's a fair summary of the last few years wouldn't you say? Would you all agree with me that the experts took a real hit in the last two year

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s like we've never seen before? Has there ever been a time in human history when the experts did so poorly in any one or two year period? I mean it was sort of unusually bad performance. You know maybe witch doctors or something if you go back further. But to my mind the complete collapse of expert credibility left us all on our own. And when you're on your own and the experts can't help you or yo…

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