Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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I'm going to talk about the communication techniques and the persuasion techniques that you can see happening, what I attempted to do to move the frame, and then we'll talk about whether I did that. That'll be later. We'll talk about the news first. I tweeted just the other day that having Vivek Ramaswamy in the primaries makes Trump a better can

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didate. Would anybody disagree with that at this point? Because Trump came out saying he wants to disband the Department of Education, which Vivek had said just the other day. Now once Vivek said it, you know, I'm sort of focused on it for a little while. Trump kind of had to play catch-up, didn't he? He had to catch up. So he had to at least match it. And how happy are you about that?

You know, I always tell you that I like to look at things from a systems perspective. The goal perspective would be I want this one candidate to win. That would be a goal. A systems perspective is we are so much better off with Vivek in the debate. You know what? Nobody can say anymore Republicans are dumb or Republicans are too old or yeah, they're not reading the room. He just eliminates a whole bunch of arguments, right? Or even that conservatives won't back somebody who's a person of color. You know, even though he's clearly not making that a point of anything in this campaign, which is of course brilliant, which is of course why he gets attention, because he's brilliant.

Like, wouldn't it be nice to have somebody like in charge of the country who you legitimately said, well, I might not agree with everything but that guy's brilliant? Like jus

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t once, right? Now this is the reason that I like Bill Clinton. Yeah, I'm far less party-bound than maybe my reputation would suggest. I like Bill Clinton because he was freaking brilliant and I didn't care who he banged on the side any more than I care what Trump did or did not do with Stormy Daniels. Completely irrelevant. Give me smart. Give me capable. I'm good. So good job for Vivek making t…

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