Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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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 no…

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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 people watching this live stream right now and the people who watch it recorded are probably, would you agree with this statement, in the top five percent of well-informed people about politics. When you say you're in the top five percent generally speaking right now, as soon as I said these names John Brennan and James Clapper, everybody who's been paying attention, all of your flags went up, right? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. These are designated liars. I've already told you with these specific names that when they turn up, the designated liars, there's something terrible going on.

So we don't know what the deal is with Mayorkas and we don't know what the deal is with the border. We just know it looks crooked. It looks crooked. And then to bolster his support he added the two most crooked known liars in the intelligence world. Now who would do that? Who would ever do that? Well it would be somebody who knows that 95 percent of the world won't notice or will think that these are good people to have in the committee probably. But to me it looks like a criminal enterprise is just making sure that their criminals are on all the important committees and watchdog groups and fact checkers. It just seems more of the important people making sure that they have their plants in all the important positions.

Now have I ever told you that one of the ways the machine works, the Democrat machine, is they create fake advisory watchdog think tanks. They put their people there and then the people that they put there say what they want them to say. And then the politicians can say, you know it's not just me. I mean this think tank advisory committee, all these advisors, they say it too. So you know don't give me a hard time. I'm just taking expert advice. But it's not real expert advice. It's people that they put in these jobs who are owned in some way either by money or blackmail or common interest. And then they pretend to the other 95 percent of the public that there's some kind of legitimate system and it's all operating properly because they can't see the gears.

But would you agree that with the Rand Paul story about TikTok you can see the gears of the machine? It's really obvious what went on. Really obvious. And with the border, is it not completely obvious that the intention is to keep it open with all of the damage it will cause? It's very clear. You know what I'm wondering? Does somebody have blackmail on Alexander Soros or maybe even his father? Because there's no way to explain the Soros donations. And Elon Musk said this. He said you can't explain it based on any public information. There's nothing that we know publicly that explains these activities. It could only be that somebody is trying to destroy America because you would never let the criminals enter jail and open the borders to the cartels. You would never do that. No, nobody who understands as much as Alexander Soros must understand about the world by now, he would, he knows the gears of the machine probably better than anybody. Do you think that he would let this happen unless he was under duress? I think he's under duress, meaning that somebody has something on him. Because imagine if you could control the entire Soros empire by blackmailing one person. Now you know he's not doing it for money because he has all the money in the world. So what else would make you do something that is obviously bad for you in the world? Blackmail. I can't think of anything but blackmail that would do it. So my working assumption is that Alexander Soros is being blackmailed because you couldn't explain anything he's doing any other way. There's no way to explain it. So that's my working assumption but I don't have direct evidence of anything like that.

Let's see if you can spot the propaganda. I saw a tweet about a poll and the poll says that both Democrats and Republicans have an unprecedented low trust in politics and their own political parties. So trust. Let's make sure Trump doesn't get in. Yeah. So do you think that's the way to frame the story, that the public has an unprecedented level of distrust in politics? Is that the right way to say the story? Say the same thing in the non-propaganda way. All right, here's the non-propaganda way. Politicians are so corrupt that the public now understands the level of corruption and they've adjusted their opinion accordingly. The story makes it sound like the public has some problem that they have a lack of trust, you know as if the media is the problem. Like the suggestion is there's something that happened in the public's mind. You know maybe the media, maybe social media is polluting their minds so that they have so little trust. That is a backwards way to tell the story. The story is the government can't be trusted and the public is catching on. Why isn't that the way they write the story? That's the true, that's the most accurate way to describe it. Politics is bad and the public has caught up. Can you see the gears of the machine? Even the polls, whether they collude to do it or they just know to do it, are part of the machine to disguise from you the badness of the political system.

All right, here's my provocative thing I'm going to add here. I'm going to make a claim that you'll have to fact check on your own I guess. And the claim is this: that as a trained hypnotist I can identify people who are in a waking trance. Now waking trance means that you're up and you're talking and you look like everybody else. You're just doing your thing. But if you engage somebody in a topic in which they have been brainwashed, immediately their face and their actions immediately go into a waking trance mode. And one of the things that makes me crazy is that once you're trained to recognize it you can't unsee it. So a lot of what you think are people doing some kind of a political debate, nothing like that's happening. They just go into a trance mode and they repeat what they've heard.

Now some of the tells for somebody who's in a waking trance mode, I'll give you the telescope and you've seen these all before but the more I tell you the more easily you can spot them. Do you ever see somebody who you give them some counterpoint to their point, let's say on the X platform they say blah blah is true and then let's say you give them a link with some credible-looking data that's opposite of their opinion. Do you ever see them say oh I didn't know about that? No. What they'll usually get is they'll show some level of consternation. The consternation is a tell because if you're just dealing with the topic

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you would just deal with the information and you'd judge it good or bad or something like that. But if you get mad and go after the person who said it, oh well that's exactly what you'd expect from a science-disbelieving MAGA person, right? That's a tell for somebody who's in the waking trance. They can't process why what they're hearing doesn't match what they've been brainwashed to believe. So t…

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