Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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e other thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Oh, good. There's a meme of me drinking coffee with my Dilbert characters. Oh, you poor YouTube people. Don't you wish you saw all the great memes that are going by right now on the Locals platform? All the YouTubers don't get to see them. I'm sorry. Sorry. So as you know, it is Father's Day. And t…

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's something about the news today that looks very much like I caused most of it. So that's the theme. It's going to look like I caused most of the news today. Now that doesn't mean I did. I'm not saying I did. I'm saying it's going to look like that, and it's going to be weird.

The only people who are going to notice it are the people who've watched me for a long time, because they know what things I've tried to persuade people about. So when you hear the news today, all right.

On CNN apparently there's a big trend called internet dads. And it's actually men pretending to be your dad online. So they're really big accounts, millions of viewers. And one of them is just a black guy who eats food with you. So he just has dinner with you. He just gets his plate out and makes a sandwich or whatever, and he just sits down and talks to you like your dad. Internet dad.

And apparently there are a number of accounts like this, and they're huge. Internet dads. It's a thing. And it's funny what the internet dads do. I saw one of them, a little clip, and it was just somebody talking to the camera saying, "I'm very proud of you." I wonder if that works. It probably does. Probably if people get used to a character, even if they're just talking to the screen, and they say "I'm proud of you," it probably does work a little bit.

All right. So I've told you internet dads would be huge, and here it is. Lauren Boebert, Dogbert, Dilbert, Rapper, Catbert, Boebert. Our representative Lauren Boebert is introducing articles of impeachment for Joe Biden based on his not protecting the border as his constitutional duty requires. How do you think that'll go far? The articles of impeachment? No, that won't go far.

However, I do like that she's introducing them. It calls attention to a very big issue, the border. And you know, it's stunting and it's persuasion, and it's not too serious in terms of legislation, but I like it. I think she does a good job of getting attention for her points of view, and I'm never against getting attention.

In The Hill there is an article talking about a fringe idea coming out of the Republican side. A fringe idea. If you haven't read the article, don't cheat. If you haven't read the article in The Hill, what do you think they're talking about? Is the fringe idea from the Republicans using the military to attack the cartels? It's a fringe idea, which they go on to explain that five of the six major candidates for the Republican Party, favorite Mr. DeSantis, is a little ambiguous about using the military, which removes him from consideration in my opinion, because I only want — I'm a single-issue voter on fentanyl.

So DeSantis is great, by the way. I think he's a very, very capable politician. But I'm just a one-issue voter this specific election, just on fentanyl. And would you say that if five out of six of the major candidates for the Republ

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ican Party, five out of six, are in favor of using the military, and The Hill calls it a fringe idea, well, what would be a non-fringe idea? Something that Democrats are in favor of, is that by definition if five out of six Democrat candidates for president were in favor of the same thing, would that be called fringe? Five out of six of the candidates. What do you think? I think no. And by the wa…

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