Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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e wants the option of gaming the system. What else could it be? What else could it be? If either side wanted the elections to be transparent and done on the first day, we have models to follow that are simple. They're simple. Just what does Israel do and what does some other countries do and just do that. It works. So you can eliminate the possibility that either side wants to fix this. Does anyb…

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and will stay that way and could turn into a nuclear war. But I will see it happening. I feel like the signals of a potential nuclear war would be much stronger than they are. So now it just looks like people bluffing each other. So I don't spend really any time worrying about nuclear war. I mean that could change, but at the moment it just looks like bluffing.

All right. And then I hear other people say the real problem is that Russia and China and other countries will have their own currency and then America's currency dominance will fall away. The dollar won't be worth something. But I feel like we've been talking about that forever, haven't we? Yeah, it just feels like we've been talking about that forever. I don't know if that means it's about ready to happen. But I feel like that's another one of those Adams law of slow-moving di

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sasters. There's probably a way around it. Can we get reparations from China for COVID? Well, have you heard the story that Russia has put together a case that the virus escaped from a Ukrainian lab that America backed? And they've asked the UN to investigate it and they've given a bunch of information. Have you heard of that? Now how many of you would say there's no chance that America was behin…

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