Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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esident ever. And if I were 25 and I had, let's say, forty thousand dollars of student debt and he said there's a 10% chance I might be able to clear that debt, do you know how to calculate the value of that? That's a straight expected value calculation. You say to yourself, well, it's a forty thousand dollar loan, but there's only a 10% chance that Biden will make it go away. So you've multiplied…

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l. It's completely commanding. So if you've missed that you've missed the story of his voice. The story of his voice is not that it sounds like Katharine Hepburn because so does Nancy Pelosi and she's commanding as hell, right? You wish you could be as commanding as she is. So it's not, it's definitely not gender. You know I'm trying to make sure you can see it's not gender and it's not quality of voice. It's not voice quality. It is absolutely word choice and attitude and he's got all of that.

All right. Now RFK Jr.'s policies don't appeal to me at the moment, you know, as he's expressed them, especially his support for affirmative action in colleges. But he's got the tools. He's got the tools.

All right, let's talk about how many of you are having a moment right now where you're thinking, holy, did you just reframe RFK Jr.'s voice into a positive? And you just watched me do it and I did it successfully. Is that messing with you at all? You're not buying it? All right, you're not buying it. Okay.

So I just decided to pay attention to France, which I usually don't pay attention to, but the riots are getting pretty bad. I thought I'd give you some statistics. So it's being caused by the death of a 17-year-old named Nahel. He was shot dead during a traffic stop and the video of the traffic stop doesn't look like it was a good shooting. So that's the claim. It doesn't look like he deserved to be shot. Nobody deserves to be shot but you know what I mean. And but worse than that apparently there have been 13 police shootings of people who are mostly black or Muslim. So it's about the police. It's basically a George Floyd situation playing out in France. So George Floyd plus Muslims. So you've got your Muslims and your blacks who both have something to complain about. Now apparently the statistics show that if you're Muslim or black and you were stopped by police, your odds of being shot are very high.

Now there's an obvious question here I think you know the obvious question which is does France have Asians? Can anybody answer that? Are there Asian French or is that almost non-existent? I would imagine they do. Somebody says Vietnamese. A lot of Vietnamese. Yeah, so they've got a lot of Asians. I was looking for the statistic on the number of Asians who have been slain by police in police stops in France. If anybody can find that number we should report it because I assume the police are shooting every all the minorities and we should make sure we have some data on the Asians in France because you know they're being shot at a pretty high rate, right? No, you assume they're all being shot at the same rate as the black and Muslims. I mean why wouldn't they be? A bunch of racists.

All right, it's 2023. Can we be honest with each

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other? Do you think it makes sense that we talk about culture? We're always talking culture. Oh this culture is different from this culture. You have to understand our lived experience, our culture, our culture. But isn't culture, doesn't that mean you act differently in the same situation? Wouldn't that be exactly what that is? A difference in culture is that if I go to celebrate versus you go to…

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