Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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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 t…

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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 been heading there, so I think maybe you were all there before me, but sometimes you just have to put a thought in words that we were all thinking and then we can go, oh yeah, that's it. You just put that in words just right. So I may have done this with this tweet. Someone accidentally, because so many people liked it. I didn't think people would like it that much. But I tweeted that the legacy me

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dia, its only purpose is to prevent the citizens from finding out what the government is doing. Didn't it used to be the case, didn't it used to be the case that you thought the news was to tell you what the government is doing? Didn't you? But it's very clear that that's no longer the case. The legacy media is in the business of preventing you from knowing what the government is doing. The legac…

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