Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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h just CIA-involved people, you know, not employees obviously, but maybe it was just some dark business. It could have been. Could have been. Because I would give you another reason why Bill Gates would do something that seems so obviously dumb, right? What are the other things that Bill Gates does that are obviously dumb? Name one. He just doesn't do dumb things. But continually meeting with Epst…

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bvious thing. Or blackmail. Those are the obvious things. But the less obvious thing is that they might both be obviously connected to intelligence agencies and they might have had some common work, and that would be something that he could never mention. So he'd be sort of screwed. You'd have to let the sexual impropriety thing just sit there because he can't explain the real one.

I remind you that a hundred percent of stories about public figures are false. I know it's hard to believe, but trust me they're false, at least in terms of being incomplete, where the part that's missing would change how you think about it completely. So when you look at something like Bill Gates, the thing I can guarantee is you don't know the story. Ever. There's always something very important about the story that you think you know that you don't know. That is just always the case. And the more public the figure is, the more true that is. And the more complicated their situation is, the more true that is. Yeah, so you don't know anything about Bill Gates. It would be impossible because the news won't tell you. He's not going to tell you. How would you know? There's no way to actually know what the hell is going on with Bill Gates ever. If you think you ever knew, you didn't, because there's no accurate news about public figures ever. None. About me, that's for sure.

All right, well I'll just put that out there. That it's weird that this app is getting some attention from people who are inter

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estingly similar in pattern to people who might have an intelligence connection, just by pattern. So just to say it again, none of what I said about any of these characters is based on any facts that I'm aware of. It's just pattern recognition. That's it. Which is a weak form of predicting the future, but there it is. I'll put it out there. Have you come to this conclusion yet? I know we've all b…

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