Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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t to keep wearing my outfit. It's like my uniform. Would you be okay if there was a special case for Steve Jobs to wear his turtleneck and jeans? Would you be okay with that? But would you find it disrespectful? Would you find it disrespectful when somebody's brand is that they don't dress up for anything? This is his brand. You would? Okay. All right so that was a good test just to see if you're…

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pretend Fetterman's good enough. Oh he's fine, he's fine. None of this is true.

So we've reached the point where I don't want them to stop doing it. I don't want them to stop supporting these ridiculous things. I want them to be anti-nuclear because it's stupid. Now there was a time when I think reasonable people could be anti-nuclear but with our current knowledge and the current technology it's actually just stupid. And there are enough people who know it that watching them play out is going to be fun. So you tell me. Tell me you wouldn't enjoy Biden running against Trump under the current situation which is that Trump is functional and Biden is not even close. You wouldn't enjoy that? You wouldn't enjoy Democrats slowly realizing that you've been right about everything?

If you were watching Fox News yesterday you saw they delightfully or delightedly showed clips of prominent Democrats saying maybe we were wrong about this. You know this Biden being ready to go. You know maybe his age is a factor, right? So watching the slow opening up of their minds or at least pretending to open up, maybe they knew all along, it's going to be hilarious. When I watched Morning Joe come around to the Republican opinion on crime, it was crime I guess the topic was crime. So now the Democrats are saying hey we should do something about crime and hey we should do something about the border. You tell me you don't want to watch an election where the Democrats themselves are saying I can't even support the Democrat because the border is open and crime is taking over the city. How could I be on that team? I want to watch it. I want Biden to be the candidate. There's no chance he can win at this point. Let me say that clearly. There's no chance Biden can win. I mean they would actually have to kill Trump at this point. You couldn't even cheat that much. But by election day the gap is going to be so big. You know unless Trump does something so amazingly wrong. But I think Trump has figured out now that just staying out of trouble is all he needs. He just needs to bring the temperature down and not look scary.

Trump has one job, one job only: don't look scary. Don't look like an authoritarian. Do you know what an authoritarian would have said about abortion? An authoritarian would have said I'm going to do a federal ban on all abortions. And then you'd be right back where you were where he's the dictator who wants to take control of women's bodies and you lose. And you lose. That's a guaranteed loss. 100 percent guaranteed loss would be Trump saying he wants a federal ban on all abortions. No way he wins. In fact I would stop even being interested in the race at that point. I would actually lose all interest because you would know what would happen. The Democrats would knowingly elect a corpse before they would let a federal ban on abortion. They would knowingly with complete awareness of what they were doing elect an actual corpse if that was their option. And that's not a joke.

You think Scott Galloway was talking about banning TikTok before I was? You better do a fact check on that. Why don't you do a little fact check on that? That's funny. It's funny that you would even think that. All right that's all I got for today. And I'm going to be, let's see it was tonight I'll probably be on Man Cave tonight for the Locals people. Yeah. Oh Galloway humor. Joe Blow he says that was Galloway humor. Nice. Nice. Dad joke approved. Talk to you tomorrow.