Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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ill don't know the news is made up? Because I think people think that it's only the news from the other side that's made up. No no it's all of it. All the news about public figures and politics is made up. Let me say as clearly as possible. All of the news, all of the news about public figures and politics is made up. And what I mean by made up is usually in the early stages the facts are wrong. Y…

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ctly. I hate when I just recreate what Mark Twain figured out 100 years ago.

Democrats voted against the parents rights bill.

All right reframed and reframe. Vivek is Dave Chappelle showing up unannounced. That's funny. Have I ever gotten the Mark Twain award? No that's for a much higher profile people. I'm not high enough profile to win an award like that. Oscar Wilde says the real news is in a year old paper. Yeah one to five years is how long it takes the news to come out. Mexican cartels. I'm not sure that the TikTok CEO brought Mexican cartels with them. Have you ever won a Pulitzer? No I don't want a Pulitzer. My God the Pulitzer is a completely discredited award. How many Pulitzers did the New York Times get for the fake news about Russia collusion? Now no Pulitzer is a sign that you're a political operative at this point unless it's non-fiction. Unless it's fiction. No I would not want a Pulitzer. There was a time when I wanted one because I thought that would be a good one to have in my line of work but at the moment I would just be embarrassed if I had one. It would just be kind of embarrassing.

Liberty says we could not match Russia in a continental war. Are you Russian? You sound like a Russian agent because I don't think anybody believes what you just said. You don't think the Russian forces apparently would last about 25 minutes if they attacked the United States unless they use nukes. I don't even know if their nukes work. If I ever saw a man who wanted a Pulitzer and Scott Adams says a mind reader. If I don't win it's not worth winning. The mind readers are out. I'm getting mind read quite a bit. If I can't win no you don't win unless you apply. Did you know that you can't win a Pulitzer unless you submit for it? If I were trying to win I would be submitting but you don't see me doing that. I do not submit my work for the Pulitzer.

Oh you're joking okay. You're forgetting their allies. No I'm not. All right yeah I wanted a Pulitzer until I found out how they were awarded but more they're awarded just you know the small group of people it's just their opinion so it doesn't have any real weight. If five people decide that you should get a Pulitzer who are those five people? Oh I won the prestigious random five people award. What's that? Five randomly chosen judges for your category and they changed the judges around every year I think.

Oh Trump gave out fake news awards. Daily Wire is increasingly sneaky anti-Trump. Scott is not sneaky o

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kay. I realized that I should have turned my iPad upside down so there's a step that, remember I told you that every step you add to the process increases the rate the chances of failure by like 25%. Any little change increases your risk of getting it wrong. And one of the things I had to add was I have to flip the iPad over right before I go live. And when Locals didn't work and I had to redo it…

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