Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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u've been thinking, Scott, do you have any new heroes? But I do. I do. I have a new hero. The news is telling us that a cisgender man in Ecuador — what is a cisgender hetero? No, you can't say normal. No, no, don't do it. Stop it, stop it, stop it. Stop saying normal. Nope. No. Okay, I'm joking because of your use of words, but I remind you that I'm pro everybody because we are infinitely differen…

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to a woman. But the LGBT groups are concerned that people are gaming the system. So I don't know.

Now I've been telling you for years, and I know you don't believe me — there's something I've been telling you for years and I think most of you don't believe me — that I've been identifying as Black for years, just in case I need it. Just in case I need it for like a practical reason. For example, let's say I wanted to start a company and my main customer was the government. Just hypothetically. Now let's say the government said we're going to favor LGBTQ companies and woman companies and people of color companies. I would designate myself as Black and I would collect that money. And I would do it publicly and completely in front of everybody. And I would say I've been calling myself Black for years and I mean it, because if I get a choice I get to be on any team, right? So that's the team I picked. Now if it turned out that I could make more money identifying as something else, I would immediately change to the other thing. If you don't, I can't explain it. They make the rules. I don't make the rules. If I made the rules, maybe I'd make them differently. Maybe I wouldn't. But I'm not in charge of the rules. I'm only in charge of playing the game. Not my fault. Not my problem. Not my fault.

And so my Ecuadorian friend here, I hope he succeeds, because I'm fully in favor of using the rules as they exist.

Well, the fun political thing is that McCarthy finally got voted in on his four thousandth vote or fifteenth or something like that. Now, do you think that this was a good look for America or a bad look? Did it make you feel better about your Congress or worse? I only saw good. You know, I can't tell. I just can't tell if I have some kind of bias filter on it or something. This is one of the best things I've ever seen our government do. I mean seriously, this was exactly, exactly what I wanted to see. I want one person to be pissed off enough to organize other pissed off people. That's what Matt Gaetz was. There's some suggestion that apparently he's not denying, which is funny — he doesn't deny it, he just changes the subject. The suggestion is that between Matt Gaetz and McCarthy it's personal. It might have something to do with McCarthy not supporting Matt Gaetz enough when he was accused of some stuff he's now largely cleared of so he doesn't have to worry about it.

And I thought about that. I thought, do I really want a member of Congress to be holding up the entire Congress because of a personal feeling? And then I said yes. Yes, that's exactly what I want. Because if you're going to be a dick to somebody in Congress, it should kick you in the balls, right? So I don't know the truth of it, so I'm not accusing McCarthy of any incorrect behavior at all. But somebody did apparently. And hypothetically, if this one person held up the entire Congress because somebody in his opinion didn't act app

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ropriately, I'm okay with that. Yeah, I'm okay with that. Everything was in public. Everything was transparent. So here's the stuff I like. I like to see some fight within a party. Fighting across parties is so normal it's boring and unproductive usually. But fighting within a party, literally with the stated intention of making the party itself stronger with specific rules changes — it took a wh…

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