Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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hat ought to get worked out. Now, I'm not being naive. I do think that he was selling influence or at least the illusion of influence, which is so close to real influence that I don't know. I wouldn't even make a distinction really. But I don't think it's going to be provable. Do you? I just don't think it's provable. So I think the outcome will be no jail, and they'll hide this as long as they ca…

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t seems like a stretch. Or do you believe that they won't use it? Because that would be like not understanding humans. Maybe any one person won't use it, but if you have millions and millions and millions, billions actually, billions of people, somebody's going to use it. You only need one to destroy a whole city.

So and what would be the other way to fix it? The only way to fix it is to fix it before it happens. Have you noticed that there hasn't been a major terror attack in the United States in how long? When was the last major terrorist attack in the United States? Do you think that's a coincidence? Do you think it's because no terrorists wanted to attack? The fact that there's been no terrorist attack for this long pretty much guarantees that all privacy has already gone. Would you agree? There's no other way we could be stopping what I presume would be a lot of terrorist attacks. There's no way we could have 100 percent efficiency unless there's no privacy. I think it's a guarantee that we have no privacy already.

Now, when I say no privacy, that doesn't mean they're looking into your stuff. They're of course looking into my stuff. Do you think I have any privacy given what you know about what I do in public and the things I say? Do you think that? And in fact that we have a Democrat in office, do you think that nobody's looking at my communications? I would be amazed. I'd be amazed if nobody's already in my WhatsApp and all my DMs. I'd be amazed. So I try not to commit any crimes because I already live in Klaus Schwab's future. My reality is that I have no privacy because I'm a p

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ublic figure and I talk about politics. So I just assume the government's crawled through my business more than once. Wow, yeah. And I run a clean shop, and I do that because I always assumed I had no privacy. So I run my life like I have no privacy, and it doesn't really hurt me. You'd be amazed how rarely I need to commit a crime. It doesn't come up a lot. It just sort of doesn't come up. Yeah,…

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