Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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And like he just threw it all away for the freedom. He killed his own cow. Yeah. So one more topic. House passes landmark bill to protect same-sex marriages, sending it to Biden's desk. Well that's what Congress is for. That's what Congress is for. So do you think it makes any difference that there would be a federal law making it legal for same-sex people to get married? You think that makes any…

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ink that a country that gives full appreciation to the LGBT community gets more value, a lot more than a society that oppresses them? Isn't it obvious? Would anybody disagree with that? To me it's obvious. It's like this entire historically super successful community that why would you want to suppress some of your most successful people historically? Yeah I know. So I think that's something we do right.

I don't know if the rule was necessary. You know I don't know if we need a federal rule but I'm always happy when you A-B test something, it works and then you codify it. To me that's perfect. That's exactly what I want. If it hadn't worked like if there was some big problem then I'd say no don't codify that. But to me it looks like it worked.

Sarah says stop lying. What do you think I'm lying about? You know I often say that the question of should you lie or should you not is the wrong question. The right question is shouldn't you live your life in a way where you don't need to? Like that's the goal is to simply not need to. And I you know I'm not sure you can get all the way to not needing to because it seems like there's always some reason. You always need to lie to a terrorist to save somebody's life, right? There's always going to be a reason. But you know try to get as close as you can to not having any reason to lie. And I'm pretty close to that with this live stream. Pretty close. I mean I can't think of anything that I've lied about so I don't ever feel an impulse to lie like that's never in my mind. It's like oh I better lie about this because I feel like you've all become the kind of people who can hear provocative views and not blow up.

Rashi says Scott thinks he's telling the truth but he's wrong. His perceived truth is wonky. Well I agree with you. Yes truth is subjective so the only thing I can claim is that the thing I think is true is what I'm saying. That's all I'm saying.

If gay marriage was successful they wouldn't need the bill. That's not true. That doesn't follow logically. The downside of gay marriage and what about the Project Veritas latest video. I'm not sure what that point is but I think you're saying that there's a Project Veritas video that might go to a grooming. Is it was that a grooming question? Are you honestly conflating gay marriage with grooming? Because that would be very distasteful. Am I or is there something more to that? Is it more to the story? But I hope you didn't just do that. Did you just say that gay marriage is leading to grooming? Because that would be an odious opinion. Huh right. Well I see those as disconnected topics.

All right. The incidence is higher. I don't know how to find a good hypnotist because the trouble is they're hypnotists. Ye doesn't try to offend Jesus or Muhammad. Well he's a pro-Jesus guy. That's his whole point. I've heard Ye say positive things about Islam but I don't know if I've heard negative things. I don't know. Draw a cartoon of Muhammad. Somebody says you know what I'm okay with everybody having their one thing, right? If Black people want to have the n-word for themselves I think well hey I want to use all the words too but that's such a small ask. It's such a small thing to ask. All right. So if Islam wants cartoonists not to draw comics of them my first impression is I want

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to be able to draw a comic about anything I want. And then I think well that's the smallest thing to ask for and that's really a small ask. If the only thing I can't do is draw a comic about one religious group it doesn't affect me too much. Yeah even if no matter what you think of the ask it's very small. We left behind a U.S. Marine to secure the release of Griner. Well I assume the U.S. Marine…

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