Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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g the Republicans would be done. So we would have a situation where Trump would be the Nazi but also possibly a convicted felon, potentially facing jail time if his appeal failed, right? So you assume if he got convicted there would be an appeal so that he would still become president. There's nothing that would stop him from being president, right? Even if he got convicted. If he were out on bail…

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process. One in which you can't trust that unless you better get some cameras in there so the public can protect itself. Get some cameras in there. We want some cameras now.

Does the person who's accused of a crime usually ask for the cameras? Yes or no? The person who's the defendant, when does the defendant ask for cameras? I've never heard of it. Have you? Have you ever heard of it? It's a baller play. Imagine being so confident of your case. Now this is what he would portray. We don't know if he's confident. We know he's portraying confidence. Just to, that's a good lawyer. So first step we see in the public, the innocent man wants cameras in the courtroom. Perfect. Good job.

All right by the way his new attorney is named John Lauro. Normally I wouldn't even care what his lawyer's name is but he's a good lawyer so maybe you should know his name so far anyway. That's a good move.

All right so President Biden has overruled the Pentagon for choosing a new member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. So they recommended some gentleman I don't know his name but Biden picked Admiral Lisa Franchetti to lead the Navy. So she'd be the first woman if she's confirmed to be a Pentagon service chief and the first female member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. So the Pentagon wanted somebody else. So does that sound like a diversity hire to anybody? Just asking. Does anybody interpret this as she's clearly not the person for the job? Yeah.

Now I feel bad for her. Would she be, she's admiral. She's not a rear admiral. I'm not sure what a rear admiral is but it's probably lucky she isn't one. But it could be that she's actually the best person for the job. I wouldn't rule it out. It's possible. You know maybe Biden is really good at hiring. Maybe she's the best one for the job but nobody's going to believe it. Should you hire people for your Joint Chiefs of Staff if the public assumes that they're unqualified? Now pretend that they think she is but nobody really believes that do they privately? You think somebody privately would say yeah I think they focused on picking the right person? I doubt it. I doubt anybody would think that.

And again this is terribly unfair if it turned out that Admiral Franchetti is actually really great. They're terribly unfair. And did I create the situation? I'm just reading the news. He created the situation where he very overtly and with nothing hidden chose somebody based on gender primarily.

Let me ask you an even more provocative question. Do you think women should be heads of any military service? I want to see if anybody says yes. Somebody says yes if they're gay. Okay that's not fair. All right almost everybody's saying no. Now is that just because you're a conservative? I see one yes. Is that because you're a conservative group or do you think this would be a general feeling? I mean I don't think it would not be among the progressives. I feel the military is the one place where the mission has to be first. I guess that's easy to say and it doesn't look like they're doing that.

So not only is Biden sleepwalking us into World War III but he's consciously, intentionally, and publicly making sure that we don't have the best people running the military. That's what it looks like. Would anybody disagree with that characterization that he's moving us close to war? That part I think you agree. I mean I'm not sure war will happen with Russia but clearly we're creeping that direction at the same time he's degrading the most important part which would be the decision-making and maybe even the trust. I don't know how you could be more incompetent more obviously and more publicly. It would be hard to imagine anybody starting or looking to crawl toward a war that could destroy all civilization while simultaneously promoting somebody who's clearly even according to the Pentagon not the right person.

So apparently we care about making women happy more than we care about defending even the country. Actually the priority is clear. So how in the world could he win re-election? It's just mind-boggling. Like if you just look at the objective facts it just doesn't look like it's possible but yeah we also don't trust the election so anything's possible.

Well I hesitate to bring up this next story but it's a big headline lately so I was a big sigh. RFK Jr. says that ivermectin totally works because there are 99 studies that show it does and that only a few studies that say it doesn't work and they were funded by Bill

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Gates and they have problems with them. He says further evidence of this is that there are two states in India one that used hydroxychloroquine I think it was. Some people had lots of vaccinations and there's a country in Africa I forget which one where they have a lot of problems with chloroquine and they did well without vaccinations. Do you like his facts? Did those sound pretty credible? Do y…

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