Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
Scott Adams Philosophy Archive
Search ideas

Context —

oups in Yemen are the Houthis. All right, well, somebody's fighting over there anyway. So that might be good. We'll see. But the other thing that Peter Zeihan said is that — I hadn't heard this before — that the primary reason for Russia's, let's say, aggressiveness against his neighbors, and I'd never heard this before. Now you'd always heard that it was maybe defensive, and maybe he was buildin…

← Previous segment →

's a military operation. He's just saying that's if you were to look at them, that would be the description. The young men. But they're coming from Africa, they're coming from China, they're coming from any place they can get out of.

And apparently this system is built to look like we have a system, but it's a fake system. It's really designed to let everybody in. And here's what that means. If you come in, let's say, the legal way where the government is checking your fingerprints and giving you a court date, your court date is in seven years. You have seven years to live in this country completely legally. Now you're not a citizen, but you're completely legal because you've checked in. Do you think that in seven years they're going to be sent back? Do you think there's a court in America seven years from now who's going to say, well, you've been living and working here for seven years and you've committed no crimes, let's say. Do you think that we're going to send them back? Of course not.

No, we do have an open border. And even RFK Jr., a Democrat, says it clearly. This is an open border. And he's basically saying that the news has been kept from you. Not only has the news been kept from us, but even from the right. I would say that I have not seen any right-leaning publication — and that might be on me. I mean, it probably is in Breitbart actually. Breitbart's good on the border. So Breitbart probably has covered this, but I haven't seen it on Fox News — that 98 percent of the people coming in are not from Central and South America. And Kamala Harris says that all worked out right. So Kamala Harris is working on Central America, and that's not even the problem. That it doesn't look like incompetence, does it?

Would you agree that whatever is going on, it doesn't look like incompetence? It looks like some kind of a very determined effort to just let everybody in. And it's hard for me to imagine what the positive outcome of that is, because the cities are gone. The cities are destroyed. Are you telling me the Democrats were trying to destroy the Democrat cities by letting in? Or is it only because the Republican governors cleverly shipped their people to the blue cities and thwarted their plan? I don't know what's going on. To me it doesn't look like a clever plan. I don't see the clever way that the Democrats are using immigration as a secret tool to accomplish their — what do they really think they're going to get? Extra votes? I don't think so.

I think that these immigrants are being shipped into cities where they're being shipped into the filth and crime that they were trying to escape. And they're probably saying to themselves the same thing everybody else is. What can we do about this? Because I would like less crime and filth in my own city where I'm living for seven years at least. And they're probably going to say, is there anybody who's offering to take care of it? You know, like a Republican, for example. I don't know. I would definitely vote. I would bet against immigration turning the country more liberal.

Do you think — let me do a mental test for you. Imagine a busload. The cartels got a busload of immigrants, and they've been taken from everywhere from China to Africa to Eastern Europe or something. So they're all over the place. If you were to do a survey of the attitudes or philosophies of the people on that bus, how many are conservative and how many are liberal on the generic immigrant bus? Remember, people, they're not French. They're not British. They're not Australian. They're not woke. My guess is they're bringing busloads of unwoke people into the country. Now that doesn't mean that they register as a Republican, but I think from a social perspective they're bringing in way more conservative people than their own base. Am I wrong?

Given that it's the specific collection of people from all over the world, do you think the Africans are liberal? You think Africans are liberal? I mean in some senses, of course. Certainly racially they would be. At least they wouldn't want discrimination against themselves. Well, I don't know. So I don't understand why the border is open, because I don't see the play. It doesn't look like simple incompetence. It looks like a plan. But the only way it makes sense to me is if China or one of our adversaries has bribed the president to go easy on the border. I mean, to me it looks like there's some outside force, because there's nothing in the news that would explain what we're seeing. It would have to be an external force, or it could be an internal force but one that's not reported or we don't see. It's invisible somehow. There's some outside force that causes the Biden administration — which means Biden himself. Would you agree that Biden himself is the person in charge of whether it's open or closed? That doesn't stop anywhere else, right? Now of course you delegate stuff, but in terms of on paper, he's the one in charge of the border. Not Kamala. All right.

So that was kind of a shocker to find that RFK Jr. is not only a close-the-border Democrat, he's more close the border than any Republican I've ever seen. He is more close the border than any Republican I've ever seen, because he's got better reasons. He's coming at it with facts. He did his own research. He went there himself. He interviewed busloads of people individually. He actually understands the whole situation.

And if you want me to finish this conversation, it goes like this. The cartels, when families come through, they remove the young and attractive traffickable women, and then they send the rest of the family on their way. That's right. They'll take your sister and your wife, turn them into prostitutes, and send you on your way to America. Now RFK Jr. explains that this is a well-known, understood phenomenon. And you talk to families that had a member taken away to be trafficked. And trafficked, by the way, would be the good news. That would be the best outcome. The bad news is raped to death right there while you're 100 yards away. So that's what's happening on our border. And that's what the Biden administration and Biden himself is specifically allowing, because they're quite aware of it, but they're allowing it.

Here's the second big change. RFK Jr. says that when he talks about the environment, he rarely talks about climate and climate change risk. Do you know what reason he gave for why he doesn't talk about climate change risk but rather he tries to talk about the things where everybody would agree, which is better water, better air, and moving toward energy that's less polluting in general? Do you know why he says he's not talking climate change risk? Doesn't believe scientists and doesn't believe the models. Thank you.

You know how long have people been telling me, Scott, why do you keep saying that RFK Jr. says some good things that you like when you know he's like a climate change crazy guy and he's always been a climate change crazy guy? Well, I could not believe that everything else RFK Jr. said about the experts didn't apply to climate scientists. Right? Because he's not coming across as a partisan. He is coming across, right or wrong — like maybe some of his ideas are terrific, maybe some of them are terrible. I don't know. I'm not the one really to judge them all. But I know he's not being partisan. I know he's not just playing for a team. And his skepticism about scientists who were paid for their opinions basically, his skepticism does apply to climate change models exactly as you think it should have. Am I wrong?

Isn't everything that RFK Jr. has said about pharma, big food, big companies polluting, the CIA — isn't everything he says consistent with not believing the scientific climate change models? It is. That is 100 percent consistent. He's telling you the entire system is corrupt, and so he doesn't believe any of the corrupt parts. That's pretty good.

Now somebody said to me, but Scott, he said he wants to get rid of coal and oil. Do you think that's true? Do you think it's true that RFK wants to get rid of coal and oil? The answer is incomplete. Incomplete. Yes, he does. Yes, he does want to get rid of them. Do you know what he wants to do to get rid of them? Let the free market get rid of them. That's right. He wants the free market to properly price all of our energy components so that one of them is not accidentally subsidized for no good purpose other than the profits that they use to get subsidized.

Now I don't know if that's a good idea. Sounds like it might be. I mean it's very much could be. I just don't know if the free market is as efficient as you'd like it to be or if we could get it there. But do you hate the fact that he's anti-coal and anti-oil in only the sense that it needs to compete fairly against the green energy? And if it wins, it wins. If it doesn't, it doesn't. And if it wins for a while and then doesn't, that's the free market. But he's not worried about the climate models and the risk of bills being killed. He wants to breathe and eat and go to the doctor without getting poisoned. That's it. That's pretty reasonable.

Now I'm not endorsing him. I'm just saying that when you see somebody enter the race in a nonpartisan fashion and look like they really show complete credibility in the way he talks about the issues — you don't have to agree with them, but he's definitely trying. He's trying to include the evidence that one side always likes to ignore in both cases. Now that doesn't make him your candidate, right? You may disagree with him on abortion or something else. But my God, he's doing a good job. And he's doing a great job for the country just helping us shape our arguments and how we think about this stuff. I mean a great job.

If the only thing RFK Jr. did was create this border documentary and inform us what's really going on — for the first time in my case, I think others might have known it — but that's a tremendous benefit to the country. That's pure good citizenship.

You know, I tell you, if Vivek is amazing every day — and again he's created some more videos where his take is the best one. He was talking about Taiwan. See if you don't think this is the cleanest take on Taiwan. I'm not saying it's the best because I'm not sure any solution is perfect. But he says that as long as Taiwan is our vital source of microchips and we're not really that close to replacing them, he said as long as that's true, China is not going to take Taiwan if he's president. Just period. It's just not going to happen. Whatever it takes, they're not going to take Taiwan under these circumstances.

But here's the nuance. He says once America recaptures its ability to do advanced microchips, he says that is a civil war. And then after that you have to recalibrate, because at that point we would not have a vital security interest. But until then he would float maybe destroyers or cruisers whatever through the straits to make sure that China knows that we're not going to give up our microchips. That's just not going to happen. Pretty good. Pretty good. I don't know if it's complete. It's pretty good. You know, for somebody whose message is let's take care of ourselves.

All right. I've got a troll on here that I feel like the good trolls take the summer off. Like it'll be till September until somebody really trolls me good. But I'm getting the all-caps trolls. I think the all-caps trolls are the ones who are even disregarded by other trolls. I think even other trolls have a hierarchy of trolling. It's like, ah, you're an all-caps troll, aren't you? I go for more of the emotional stuff. I'll try to find what somebody is saying politically, but then I'll go after them for whatever personal tragedy they had. Like that's a higher-end troll. But even they don't like the all-caps trolls. It's like you're making us look bad. You know, I just said something about his dead stepson and I think I nailed it, and then you made me look bad with your all-caps comment. Could you please take your all-caps to the lower league of trolling and not make us all look bad?

All right. Here's a question for you. Rasmussen did a poll. How many people do you believe who are likely voters believe that as a vice presidential running mate, Kamala Harris helps Biden's chances in 2024? How many think that she helps his chance? Oh yeah, that's a pretty good guess. Is 22 percent. But your guess of 25 was really close. Again, the smartest audience ever. And I did note that many of you had the answer before I asked the question. And you won't see that in the live streams, right? You watch another live stream, usually it's like somebody will ask a question and then they'll be the answer because that's the slower viewers. That's the way they do it. It's like I've got to wait for the question. Oh, here's the answer. So slow. So old. Now my viewers give the answer before the question, and that's the way to do it.

Here's an update on my book. You know I've got a new book, "Reframe Your Brain," because my publisher canceled me. The update is I am banned for life on Amazon KDP. Now that's the service that independent publishers use to put books on Amazon. So to make it available — now the reason for banning me for life is that I don't own my own book, they say. Now I do own my book. I own all the rights. I have all the documentation. I have the assignment documents which have been provided to them from the start. So from the start they had the document showing my ownership. But when we say what's wrong with my documents showing my ownership, they say well we'll have to study this and get back to you. And then they study it and they say you're still banned for life. And then I say yeah but like why? Is ther

Context —

e somebody you think owns it? Or do you think that I'm not me? And they say banned for life confirmed. We'll get we'll five days we'll get a look at it again. Now it took me a while because these were email exchanges with the support. It took me a while to realize I'm talking to an AI. I'm pretty sure the responses didn't have any tells for a human. Now they were signed by a human name, so severa…

Next segment → →