Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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hange stuff? You know I saw Congress is the only one who could do that but the details are that if the law allows the federal government and the president to manage something then that president can manage that thing as long as it's within the bounds of the law according to a number of subjective or different technical ways to get it done. So the trick is that you have to write your executive orde…

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than Kamala Harris in the whole country. Do you think that's true? Do you think Trump is less popular than Kamala Harris? Might be. Might be true. So do you really want another four years of being called a white supremacist and a monster just because of Trump? I feel like he's the only candidate that would make his supporters look like, I mean it happened the first time. I mean it was devastating for anybody who supported him. They were just demonized as racist. But if Tim Scott is the candidate I have a good four years no matter what happens. A good four years. If Trump's a candidate I'm going to get a lot of trouble. Like there's just a lot of trouble to come my way. And I'm even endorsing Ramaswamy and I'm still, if I say anything positive about his persuasion or something I'm still going to get villainized for all that. Do I need that? I don't really need it. But I also object to the fact that the Democrats would make me try to support somebody different because they're going to put pressure on me. They're going to put pressure on me. That's not cool. You can put pressure on the candidate as much as you want. They signed up for that. But if you come after me because I have a political preference that's not cool at all. Yeah not cool at all. So we'll see what happens.

So the conversation about whether we're experiencing something called a woke mind virus. I was actually in a conversation with somebody who does a great job of looking at both the left and the right and insists that the woke mind virus is an illusion by the right. That there's no such thing. And then I said well do you believe that let's say the trans situation would be exactly the same except for the psychology of the current situation? And I didn't get quite a good answer to that but it seems to me it's obviously a woke mind virus and it's operating exactly like a virus in that it you catch it from other people. You know they have to talk to you about it and it's spreading. So if you get it from other people and it's spreading is that wrong to call that a mind virus? It's not a physical virus but obviously it's a mental process that's spreading from one to another. It has negative effects. I mean I think woke mind virus fits perfectly and is observable and scientifically measurable and the data supports it. To me it's the most obviously true thing in politics. You like TDS right?

But so I saw a little back and forth by, I saw at first it was a tweet that Jordan Peterson was boosted and the tweet said Megan Fox has three boys, Charlize Theron adopted two boys. Both are woke Hollywood stars. Both are unmarried white women. Both have sons identifying as girls. And then this tweet said it doesn't take a rocket scientist. So in other words it was suggesting that these children would not have made these choices except that their parents are woke white liberals and single and the implication is dad wouldn't let them do that. I don't know about the dad part but then I saw a tweet by Jordan Peterson who calculated the odds. So he did the odds. What are the odds that you would have two non-binaries or you know two kids who think they're in the wrong gender and it's like one in hundreds of billions or something like that. Just crazy odds. But I would like to add the following thing. I've talked about the McMartin School preschool case before I think it was 70s or 80s. I forget was it 80s or 80s? Yeah it was in the 80s. And the famous case just to remind you it's well documented. You can see it on Wikipedia is that there was a preschool in which there were allegations that the children were being tortured and used in Satanic rituals and that there was a basement under the school in which they took the kids and did all kinds of very elaborate rituals and everything. And the reason that they were accused of this is that that's what the children said. So when the children were interviewed they said oh yeah we're taken underground and these bad things happen and they touc

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hed me and you get hurt and blah blah blah. And one child after another had a story that had these same satanic elements. And so it went to trial. The people who owned the school had to go to trial to defend themselves against being satanists which they had no connection to whatsoever. No connection to Satanism whatsoever but yet they were really Satanists and they had a secret basement under the…

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