Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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u hired them and then they said that they were victims working for you. Who could have seen that coming? Well I'll tell you who could have seen it coming: anybody who understands how cause and effect works. Do you think Louis C.K. understands how cause and effect works when he says open the border? He actually couldn't game that through in his mind to understand what the cause would have affected…

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If the plane blew up or if let's say the cockpit was full of smoke, it's the first thing you know they would tell you that right away. Oh there was a technical problem in the plane so we grounded the fleet until we find out what it is to see if it's common to any of the other planes.

So you could know right away that the first level was you knew the government knew if the plane had failed in a normal way that was just some kind of mechanical problem. You would have known right away because that's the first thing they would have told you. There was a mechanical problem. The pilot got down safely because that would be like a success, right? If the pilot got out safely after a catastrophic mechanical problem I think they'd want you to know that the system works well enough that even if a plane fails, which would be kind of rare, pilot gets out alive. That would actually be more of a plus than a negative, you know if you thought about it in its totality. It's more of a plus. But we didn't hear that, did we?

So you knew something was going on that wasn't the normal stuff. The normal stuff would be there's a problem with the plane and it's catastrophic and so the pilot got out. The fact that you didn't hear that explanation right away, the most normal obvious one, it could be is a really clear signal there's something else happening. But the fact that the plane was not near the ground and was able to fly when the pilot left is a very strong indication that there's another mystery involved. And now that it's being called a mishap, what does that tell you? So the official word which was used by Kirby, yeah Kirby said mishap as well. So mishap, when do you use the word mishap? Under what conditions would you call this what we know about it a mishap?

Well the first thing you'd have to know is that they don't know the real cause. They're not sure the real cause is possible as pilot error and they don't want you to know that that's possible. So one of the possibilities is pilot error and they don't want you to know it. The other possibility is they suspect it was hacked but they don't know yet, or they suspect it was hacked, they do know and they don't want to tell you, or they'll never tell you. But the word mishap in my opinion eliminates the possibility that there was a catastrophic problem because if there was a catastrophic technical failure they would just tell you. The pilot would say I don't know what went on but major failure, I have to get out. And then they would say there's a major failure, we don't know what it is, pilot lived. But they called it a mishap. So my indicator was correct the first time. I'm positive now there was not a catastrophic jet-can't-fly-anymore problem. Would you give me that? Is it too soon? Is it too soon to say that my detector accurately detected it was not a normal catastrophic problem in the air? I think so. So far it looks like I'm right without any expertise except that I was once married to a pilot so I know that pilots don't eject from planes that can still fly. It's just not a thing.

All right, here are some more gears of the machine. So Joel Pollak writes about this in Breitbart. So the Department of Homeland Security and the secretary there is Alejandro Mayorkas, same person who's in charge of border security. So the person that you don't trust because he is in charge of border security and appears to be doing nothing like border security. Looks like he's just letting everybody in, which might be more of a Congress problem or a president problem. Maybe he's just doing what he has to do. But we don't trust him because he's the person most associated with lying about what's happening at the border. At the very least he's lying about it. I don't know what else he's doing but he's certainly lying about it and he's not doing anything to fix it. It's his job to fix it and it's our biggest risk at the moment. So you have big questions about that, don't you?

But just to make you doubly suspici

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ous, he's created some kind of an advisory board, the intelligence experts group, and it's comprised of private sector experts who are going to give their unique perspective on the federal government's intelligence workings. And two of the people that were appointed to that were John Brennan and James Clapper. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Now this audience is well trained. I would say that the…

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