Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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w, put some rope down. She goes, no, God will provide. The helicopter goes away. Well, the water rises. She drowns. And she goes to heaven, and she's talking to God in heaven. And she goes, God, what's up? I've been believing in you my whole life. You know, I was sure you would provide. What happened? And God says, I sent you a car, I sent you a boat, I sent you a helicopter. And you know, that's…

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aim. Use your critical thinking to answer this question. What are the odds it's true? Go. Put the odds on it. Odds it's true. I'm saying 25. 25. Low. One percent. Low. Zero. Ten percent. Very good. Very good. Very good.

So do you remember what I predicted would be true after the 2020 election? If you remember, I said a whole bunch of times, I said this over and over again. I said every claim you hear about election fraud is at least 95 percent chance likely to be false. 95 percent. Now what was the final outcome of all the 2020 claims? How close was I right? I told you that even if something is true, and I didn't have an opinion at that time, I didn't know if there was some true stuff, but I told you that 95 percent of what people surface will definitely not be true, right?

So when you see this new claim, just keep the 95 thing in your mind. Now it looked very credible to me, right? If you put a gun to my head and said, all right, you're gonna have to bet whether this particular story was true, I want to think it is. But then I have to retreat to my rational mind and say, okay, the fact that it looks true means what? How much credibility do you put on it? It's on video. It's a real person, and it looks true. What's that mean to you? Nothing. Nothing in 2022. It doesn't have any value. Absolutely no value. And the first thing you ask yourself is why is it only on Getter, right? Is there some reason that would be not on other platforms? Yeah. So it could be from a different year. Could be an operative who's just doing an op. It could be anything. It could be absolutely just anything. You don't know.

All right. CNN. I'm gonna give yet another compliment to CNN. You know, being one of its biggest critics for years, I feel like I have some kind of social obligation to tell you when they do something right. And not only today do they have Daniel Dale doing a hard fact check on Biden. And when I say a hard fact check, he just goes right at him. Yeah, Daniel Dale went at Biden the way you saw him go after Trump. I never thought I'd say it. Never thought I'd say it. But he just went right at it. He said lie, lie, lie, not true, lie. Yeah, big stuff. I'm not talking a little stuff. I'm talking about the major claims of the president. Lie. Just lie. Amazing.

So congratulations to CNN for what looks like a successful business pivot. You want more? This will blow your mind. The day before elections, CNN's website, the following headline: Opinion. Democrats are out of touch with American voters. That's a headline on CNN the day before the election. Democrats are out of touch with American voters. And it goes on in the article to say that Republicans are running for office on the actual issues that people care about. Can you believe that? Oh, two days. I'm sorry, two days before election. I forgot what day it was today. Feels like a Monday to me for some reason. Must be that time change. Does that just blow your mind? My mind is completely blown by the fact that something's going right.

Now remember I told you everything's broken. Everything's broken, but it's all being redesigned, right? You tell me. Was CNN broken a year ago? And do you see that they're redesigning in a way that's useful to the country? Yes or no? Would you agree that you see it? It's not just me, right? You can see it. Is Twitter better off than it was a year ago? I think so. I mean, it's a big mystery where things will go. But so you've go

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t CNN being a responsible citizen. Congratulations to them. Completely successful. I don't know about their ratings. You know, I hope that I actually hope their ratings improve. So I'm gonna root for CNN's ratings to improve because I think they're acting like patriots. Is that too far? In my opinion, CNN is taking a patriot perspective on their business, which is to try to give you the actual new…

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