Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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amaged and useless? Not so much, right? A year ago even the Democrats would have said, oh, stop making fun of his speech defect. He's fine. They don't say that now, do they? Am I right? There is a completely different tone from the Democrats about their own president. And that tone is, oh look what we did. Maybe we should undo this. Now you're going to get people who still support him because it'…

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tform at the moment. Which is not to say they weren't Democrats. If you could put on goggles and see everybody's voting party, I'll bet you they're mostly Democrats. I'll bet there were at least 60 Democrats. But you don't see anybody talking about Biden. It's just not a thing. It's just not a thing. And you don't even see people agreeing with wokeness, at least within the suburban family kind. Just nobody.

And I used to feel like I was in a little bit of danger when I just went out in public. You know what I mean? If you're notable as a Trump supporter, there was a time when it would have been dangerous for me. Just I was a little wary even just going to the grocery store because I thought I'd be confronted with somebody. Not necessarily physically, but I thought somebody would get in my face, you know, throw a milkshake on me or something like that. But I don't get any pushback anywhere where I live. Just think about that. I mean, people recognize me at this point, and they've got a good idea what I'm up to. I get no pushback. Zero. There is not a single instance of somebody in my own community who's told me I've gone too far or I'm a Nazi or I'm on the wrong side. Nothing.

So are you seeing this? Are you seeing that in mixed gatherings there is no Biden support or even Democrat support really? People will talk about abortion. That's sort of all they have. Am I right? That's all they have. And a lot of people don't care about that as much as you imagine they do. Yeah, there was a little talk of Trump, but even he's not the important thing these days.

All right, we'll talk about Trump. MSNBC. There's a clip on Twitter of MSNBC interviewing Democrat governor candidate or governor Kathy Hochul. Now imagine MSNBC interviewing a Democratic governor two days before an election. Now how do you think that went? You think that would be really just a friendly, right? They'd be trying to get Hochul over the finish line. Nope, that didn't happen. MSNBC just slapped the shit out of her. I didn't know what I was looking at there for a moment. Yeah, I didn't catch the name of the host, but credit to the host. The host said, you know, I guess the context was crime. And the host says, here's the problem. We don't feel safe. I walk into my pharmacy and everything is on lockdown because of shoplifters. I'm not going in the subway. People don't feel safe in this town. That is the end of her, isn't it? Did MSNBC just drive a stake through her heart? It looked like it. It looked like even MSNBC is like, we can't even do this anymore. We just can't do this anymore. We have to kill you now. I mean politically, not actually. I think they just drove a stake right through her heart on live TV. Because, and again, if somebody knows, if you saw the clip, I'd like to give a shout out to the host because that was good work. That was good work. And that not just on a team play kind of basis, but it was good journalism. This is somebody who really got to it, really got under the hood there. I wish somebody would say her name just so we could give her credit.

All right. Well, maybe you'll see it in the comments. Jack Dorsey has apologized for growing Twitter too quickly and therefore being a participant, I guess he would say, for how many people had to get laid off because he thinks it grew a little too quickly. And I appreciate that. That's sort of the context you wanted to hear, right? Didn't you wonder why there were so many people, and could you actually get rid of a lot of people and still run the company? And probably yes. If grew too fast is a true statement, and it certainly looks that way, then probably there's a little bit of or maybe a lot of cushion stuff they can cut. So that's happening.

I was trying to imagine what it would be like to be Jack Dorsey and know that all these layoffs are happening. Like that's got to be c

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rushing. I once had to close a restaurant, two restaurants actually, but I had to close a restaurant that wasn't working out. And I had to tell the staff that they were all fired, with severance and stuff like that so they were treated well. But that's a really bad day. It's twice a bad day because as I was telling them that I would treat them right and everything, there were some who were actuall…

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