Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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Basically she's completely dysfunctional. And while we feel human empathy for her situation, she does work for us, right? She works for us and she's not doing the job. So those are just facts. But there was a poll. Well, let me just do a little test of my audience. Let's see if you can get this within two basis points. Obviously if you can guess the answer within two. How many people polled do yo…

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it makes sense to pardon. But he also said he'd pardon Trump. What do you think of that? What do you think of that as a persuasion play, that he would pardon Trump? Yeah, it's right. It's right on target. Exactly. Yeah. So I'm going to say this again. DeSantis does look like a genius of persuasion. He hasn't made a misstep. I mean if he has it's been minor. But he is hitting bullseye after bullseye in the messaging and communication area, and that's hard to ignore, right? He's picking up the easy money everywhere. So this is another example of that. It's pitch perfect, and he's reading the room perfectly. Let's put it that way.

Do you think that Trump reads the room? Yeah, like he reads the room better than just about anybody. Trump does too, so I'm not going to take that away from Trump. But he's just hitting every note. So Wall Street Journal likes him, and a lot of people like him. And he's saying that Trump ruined people's lives with the lockdown. This is what DeSantis says. And that he was too close to Fauci basically. So DeSantis is going to try to paint Trump as Fauci plus, which is pretty good politically. Fauci is so poisonous right now with the Republicans that that's a perfectly smart play, because he can just let all the badness of Fauci bleed onto Trump and you'll just feel different about him, Trump, and you won't know why. It's just because the Fauci ugliness could get transferred a little bit if DeSantis keeps on it. So real good technique.

Here's an update on the Target stores and what they did or did not do in terms of offering trans-friendly things to children, allegedly but not really. So here's what I've learned. Target some time ago did away with child sizes for teenagers. Now I'll need a fact check on this, but this is what I understand. So in other words a 13- or 14-year-old would be buying adult-sized clothing just because they found no reason to have different sizes for people who are largely the same size, right? A 16-year-old girl is not going to be that different than a 30-year-old adult, right? So some time ago Target got rid of these teenager sizes.

So the question is, did they make trans-specific clothing? We're only limiting this to the tuck swimsuits. Did they make a tuck swimsuit targeted for teens? And the answer is only accidentally, because if they made one for adults it would be the same sizes as the teens use. So accidentally yes they did. Intentionally it doesn't look like it. It looks like a really bad mistake. It looks like they didn't realize that because their sizes were no longer discriminating between tee

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nager sizes and adult that it would be seen as a product for people under 18. So I'm not going to defend Target, but it looks like more of a mistake than some kind of a strategy to turn teens into something. So my current take is that if you would like, hold on, if you would like to in your secret thoughts believe that Target did this intentionally, I have nothing to argue against that. Are you o…

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