Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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g it more top of mind. And crazy people don't need bad ideas top of mind. Hey Scott did you hear Kanye was hanging out with a white supremacist? No I hadn't heard. So here's the question. Has Trump lost his edge? What do you think? It feels like it, doesn't it? It feels like it now. Predictably he should because the experience he's been through plus the normal effect of being the age that he is.…

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that just to make you see it. That would, I think I'd become dangerous at that point. At that point there's probably nothing I wouldn't do to the regime. Do you feel the same way? Like it's one thing to have the cops trying to stop you from protesting and blah blah. But if you take somebody from that group and you hang them from a public scaffold, I'm ready to do whatever it takes at that point. All of my risk reward calculation just goes to zero.

Have you ever had that happen? By the way this is probably what makes me the most dangerous. Not things I say on Twitter. The thing that makes me most dangerous, which even I'm afraid of, is that there are moments when I lose all fear of any consequences. Now it doesn't happen often but it only happens in the situation where I've just made a decision as opposed to wanting something. Oh I want this protest to go my way but not so much that I'm going to do something about it. But when I decide, there's this thing that happens that I could feel in real time. I just feel every risk or fear just disappear and I go into this calm executioner mode where I could do anything. They could actually do anything. So if I had to murder a member of the regime with my bare hands, yes I could do it without even worrying about it. Like that's just something that happens. But to be clear it's a rare situation.

I'll tell you one time it happened. Some of you heard the story. Back when smoking was legal in offices and I asked could I be moved to a cubicle that's away from the smokers and it couldn't be done. And so I staged a protest. And I felt before I did it, because I was obviously going to risk my job, that I was going to take down the whole company. Like I wasn't just going to, it wasn't going to be about smoking. Once I realized that they weren't going to help me and that my health was at risk, such arrogance Scott. Yes a little bit. Once I realized they weren't going to help me and then they coincidentally they sent around a thing where you had to sign a document that said you understood the workplace dangers and it listed a bunch of types of dangers. And one of the things it listed was secondhand smoke. So the company asked me to sign the document to say I understood that being near secondhand smoke was dangerous at the same time they were making me agree that if I saw danger in the workplace it was my responsibility to stop it, right? They made me sign that document at the same time they said you have to sit next to the secondhand smoke. Well at that point what do you think happened? Remember that thing I said where all fear goes away? Disappeared. At that point I was going to take down the little company which by the way I could have done. I was already a hypnotist by then. Probably could have done it. I would just have to go to the media and tell the story. That would be damaging to them and I could have done that. So I was willing to actually throw away my entire career potential for the rest of my life. Not wisely. It wasn't really the fight I should have died on, you know at 22 or whatever it was, 25. And it shouldn't have been the play. But instead I just told my bosses well I'll stay home until you solve the workplace danger. And the first day they thought I was joking. Didn't come to work. The boss called in and said really you're really not coming to work anymore? I go I'm not quitting. I'm doing what you asked me to do which is to escape from a workplace danger, alert my immediate managers, and when that's rectified I'll come back to work. And by the third or fourth day that I didn't go to work, well they still paid me, it started going up the management ranks until it got to somebody who said we're going to change the smoking situation. So they changed the smoking situation. They moved me to a place in the building that didn't have smokers, which they could have done the whole time.

But here's the thing. When you get to that point where you've decided there's no fear, there's no fear once you decide. There's fear when you want it to go this way but not so much that I'm going to do something about it. So I don't know if anybody else has that experience. Have you ever been in an experience where all of your fear went away and you could feel it in real time and you just became almost godlike? Because when you have no fear, do you know how scary you are? Have you ever had to have a conflict with somebody who clearly had no fear about anything? Don't get yourself in that situation. The last thing you want is to be in a confrontation with something that has no fear. And I become that person. Not in any, it's not planned. It just happens because once I've decided we're done. The decision is the decision. It's just going to happen.

Thirty percent THC is healthy says the government. What? I haven't heard that. Like someone on Beth here. How do you think Trump has withstood all the hoaxes and without quitting? Well he has weirdly thick skin and he's also an optimist. So I think Trump thinks that things will work out in the long run and they usually do. I should do MMA now because in MMA I would just be wanting to fight so I'd get killed. But you wouldn't want to get in a fight with me if I decided to win. There's no way you would survive that. Nobody would ever survive that if I decided. Right. Adam and Krengle is a cloud chaser. Okay so I'm seeing somebody, some people say that Ann Coulter is who was behind the meeting with Trump. I don't see any evidence of that. You were a tennis player. That says it all. Well I don't play tennis anymore.

All right, I don't have anything else to say. Scott I'm hearing cognitive dissonance about what? Yeah, insane people have no fear. That's what makes them scary. If Biden gets rid of the black VP now because the black community doesn't like his vice president either. So oh that cloud chasing was to someone else. Okay. Does Ye become the kingmaker if he takes down the current kingmaker? Kinda yeah. Good morning San Diego. Uh huh. Give me six and then I could carry your home state. Right. Biden and Ye I don't think so.

When you have no fear do you still have the voice that you had? Yes, yes I do. I still hear the voice in my head but the voice in my head has just made a decision and then I'm just, it's mechanical after that. It's like I'm a robot. Vax mandates were upheld by the Ninth Circuit. Yes I hear a voice in my head. So we talked about that yesterday I guess. Thirty percent of the country hears a voice in their head continuously. I'm one of them. I hear myself thinking in full sentences as if I'm listening and that's how I arrange my thoughts. Have you ever noticed that if you ask some people a question about a topic that they've thought about, some people have an instant answer. I'm one of those people. You could ask me almost anything that's been in the news even before I was doing this publicly and I would have an instant answer for you because I've already thought of it in terms of the words I would describe it to someone else. That's how I think. I think in terms of how I would describe it to someone else. Do you do that? All of my mental conversation is me describing what I think is true to an invisible listener. And then if I can describe it well to the imaginary person then it's a thought I keep. And if I try to explain it to somebody but I can't then I discard it. So the voice is just my filter for deciding what is reasonable. If you can't put it in a sentence that makes sense then it probably wasn't reasonable.

Hahaha in the old days they thought it was demons. You don't do that. Is that you realize that that's also the same technique for why you do a business case for something that you know you wanted to do. So I used to, it was my job in corporate America for a while. If the boss wanted to do something, let's say invest in some kind of new technology, then it would be my job to do the numbers and make sure it made sense. So I've got a big background in that. But one of the things you learned is that even if you're pretty sure something makes sense but then you try to write it down and explain it to somebody you realize you can't do it. Like you read the words you're like why is it that it makes sense to me but I can't write it down in a way to explain it to somebody else in a way that makes sense? And the answer is it doesn't make sense. That's how you learn that your thought process is irrational. When you try to explain it to the imaginary person then you can't do it. Craig says his internal voice speaks Esperanto. So annoying. I know. Sometimes my internal voice is just signing but it's one of those frauds. There's nothing funnier than the people who are fraudulent sign language people. There have been a few of them. You've seen them, right? The videos. I don't know how it happened but somebody somehow got the job and the politician will be talking and they'll be like and y

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ou're looking at them you're like no I haven't seen any of that signing before. I'm no expert but it doesn't look like signing to me. Somebody on Locals says you want a hot Android companion more than you want anything else. Yeah ditto. I'm with you on that. I think I would be completely happy being an 80 year old guy living with an Android because someday I'll probably be an 80 year old guy who…

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