Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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ng is making you feel buy-in. How much do you feel like you're legitimately part of the process? Or better, people that you trust on Twitter, you see them making suggestions, right? And they're smart people in many cases. When you see smart people on Twitter making smart suggestions to Musk, even though it's not your suggestion, you feel like you're part of the process, right? Because you could ha…

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tices it and then everybody puts it on the news. Nothing like that is happening. When it comes to politics, they decide what the news is. It's literally just a decision by people who want to manage the public. And they've decided that this is not a big story that Twitter was being influenced directly and personally and in an ongoing way by the United Nations to make sure the messaging was compatible with what the UN wanted. Which is the scariest thing you could ever hear.

Now why is that not a big story? Because the media decided it wasn't, I suppose. Fox News could decide, and they're big enough that they could make that a story. But it would never cross over from Fox News, would it? Except that other people would mock them for having the only stories about it or something. This is one of those cases where you can tell yourself you really see that the media assigns your opinion. Because whatever you're worked up about today, I guarantee it was on the news. And the things you're not worked up about, they were not on the news. The news decided what to run, and they could pick or ignore whatever they wanted. And then you get worked up over it and you think, oh, I'm worked up over that important thing. No, you're not worked up over the important thing. You're worked up over what the news wanted you to be worked up over. You're completely manipul

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ated. As am I, right? I'm not outside that system. I'm just as manipulated as you are. Just be aware of it. And so that was a two-level excellent tweet by Cernovich because it really gets to something deeper than just the news. All right. Tim Ryan running for Ohio senate had to have this statement to say in public. He said, imagine if JD Vance was your teenage kid and you caught him hanging arou…

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