Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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y inappropriate but there we are. All right lately there's been a bunch of stories about DEI professionals who have been fired or quit or downsized whatever and they usually show their picture. Have you noticed anything common or similar about the photos of the people working in that field? Actually a lot of them are white. Yeah yeah your first impression was it's going to be people of color but…

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ng through your selfies you realize that you can't find one that doesn't have crazy eyes what's your best play?

I did a poll on this on Twitter. I gave people two choices. If all of your selfies have crazy eyes your two choices are hide all of your photos or become a DEI professional because apparently that's the one place where a crazy eye photo is perfectly acceptable. Oh yeah we'll hire this one. All right 88 said become a DEI professional and 12 said hide their photos.

All right here's an Ukraine update. Fairly early on in the Ukraine situation a lot of people were pro-Ukraine. They put their Ukrainian flags in their profiles and stuff. It was still literally fog of war. Things were just developing. Ukraine was an ally. Russia was not. You know so it made sense if the US and NATO were going in on a side that people would kind of take the side of the leaders. But a lot of time has transpired. We see now that so far we've not got a good result. The latest thinking is that nobody's going to do any counter-offensive or offensive to walk on land mines until the end of time and basically keep their borders the way they are.

So under these situations and the times going by and what we've learned about the Bidens taking money from Burisma allegedly etc. can we conclude that if you still have a Ukraine flag in your profile and you're not actually Ukrainian there's probably something wrong with you and probably you're deeply brainwashed? And somebody said today on Twitter you've heard it before but you know that they don't take seriously a thing that's said by anybody with a Ukraine flag in the profile. Now when people started saying that my first reaction was well that's a little bigoted or I don't know stereotyped or that's a little crazy but standing from today's perspective with what we know about the whole situation and lots of time has transpired and it doesn't look like we're getting any closer to a result kind of embarrassing to have that. And if you still have that in your profile I swear to God I can't take you seriously because it's almost like a tattoo on your forehead. This has brainwashed me. Brainwash me please. Hello could I please be brainwashed a little bit? Do believe whatever you're telling me as long as it costs a lot of money to buy a lot of weapons. The most important thing is we're buying weapons. Lots and lots of weapons. So that's what the Ukraine flag to me just looks like you're lost.

And again I think that you could be a reasonable person and have nuanced and different views on whether we should or should not be helping Ukraine. I think a reasonable person could be on either side of that even if I strongly disagree. Reasonable people are on both sides. But I wouldn't believe anybody was reasonable if they had a Ukraine flag in their profile. The first thing I think is oh I can't talk to you. But I'm sure there are equal things that people say about other people same kind of thing. That's just where I am at it that I can't take anybody seriously with that flag.

All right well the latest on the Ukraine situation is they're completely bogged down. The counter-offensive is not working. Russia is in no risk whatsoever of folding or falling apart. There are more stories about internal dissension and people being rounded up and all that stuff. I'm sure that's true but we haven't seen progression lately. And I don't think Russia is in trouble of any kind of coup. Does anybody think Russia actually is falling apart? As long as they have money they're not falling apart. Putin's firmly in control it looks like.

What's that? Elijah Wood talking about Zelensky's addiction? Is that on the news? It's not on serious drugs then I'd have to question his capability. If he's not at least on meth or some version of it, Adderall or something, if he's not on a performance-enhancing upper then he's the wrong person for the job. I'm just going to say that directly. I don't care how illegal those drugs are. If the guy who's in charge of saving your country isn't getting the energy he needs he better go get it. I just assume anybody in this situation is on some kind of meth or Adderall or some version of it. Don't you? You say cocaine but I don't know. Meth would be smarter in his case. I don't know if he's snorting anything but I would say for sure a person in that situation I would if I were him I would be on some kind of stimulant because there's no way he's ever going to go to sleep thinking he did enough work. Remember his life and death. You don't want somebody to say you know I'm going to get a good eight hours of sleep tonight. That's the last thing you want to hear from your war leader.

You know what I want to hear from my war leader? I've been up for three days. I'm still doing well. I don't feel like I need any sleep yet. And I say to myself okay well you're on meth. And then the second thing I say to myself is thank God I've got a leader who's awake. Do you want a sleepy Joe making your war decisions? Well yeah we'll send you some bombs.

Foreign. Good for him. Just means he loves his country and he doesn't want to sleep through a war. But I don't recommend drugs to you because keep in mind that if he's doing drugs and I just assume he is, I mean he would be smart enough to be on stimul

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ants but I just wouldn't trust him if he's not. Yeah so you could have, there's a downside. Duh there's a downside to drugs. So he could get addicted. It could be really bad later in his life. He could die even. Overdose. You know he could have some. It's like all bad. I get it. But in terms of the risk reward I doubt anybody in this situation would not be on stimulants. Probably it's probably pre…

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