Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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You know that would be an entirely legitimate thing to do. But are you comfortable with AI knowing everything about your Twitter experience? If AI learned about me only from Twitter could it reproduce my personality? If it only knew my Twitter experience it could reproduce it but it would be an attenuated version. Twitter me is not me. You know that, right? My Twitter personality is not like my b…

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he left of being racist. I don't know, it's kind of perfect. But you also knew that that's where I had to go, right?

Once your model of the world is that it's groups against groups all you see is groups and everything is one group against another. So the left has to eat itself in the long run. The inevitable evolution of the left is it has to eat itself. It has to break into atomized parts and start fighting. The right does not necessarily have that fate.

Why does the right have more protection against devolving into a bunch of partisans? It's the Constitution. Because people, because whatever you believe as long as you're pretty serious about the Constitution yeah you're on my side. I'm not a conservative but if you're real serious about the Constitution you're on my side. That's the beginning of the end of my analysis of your value. If you're not on the side of the Constitution well you're a risk to me. That's a risk. I'm not saying you're a bad person but it's a risk to me. But if you're on the same side as the Constitution you and I can live together and I can disagree with you about all kinds of stuff. Won't make any difference to me. In fact I might even enjoy the disagreement. Might add to the flavor of my life. But yeah you're fine with me as long as we agree on the Constitution.

Let's see. I wonder if there are any people associated with the right who don't like the Constitution because that would be weird. In fact if you were a political figure on the right and you were anti-Constitution that would be pretty much the end of you wouldn't it?

Well next story. Trump is in favor of ignoring the Constitution. So he posted on Truth Social. He said quote, do you throw the presidential election results of 2020 out and declare the rightful winner, which would be him of course in his view, or do you have a new election? A massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations and articles even those found in the Constitution. Trump wrote. And we're done and we're done and we're done.

Now here's the only way that this could be okay. The only way I could understand this as being okay is if Trump is simply trying to bring some attention to himself by saying the most outrageous thing you could say and getting everybody talking about it. But unfortunately the left, or fortunately maybe, the left has decided that he will get no attention and so has Fox News and I think Breitbart's sort of on that page now. So Trump's ability to say outrageous things and get attention is really diminished. Really diminished.

So if it successfully got him all kinds o

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f attention you could actually argue maybe it's working in his favor in a weird kind of way because he's done that before. That would be a standard play. But does it look like that? Here's what I wonder. I'm watching Elon Musk and also Ye attract all the energy and I think Trump is left sort of energy poor. There's not enough energy going in his direction and so he's got to top Elon Musk, the lapt…

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