Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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ou know, was allegedly a gotcha on CNN because there was a CNN reporter standing in front of the only Dropbox and wherever they were. And as he was standing there on one side of the Dropbox the video is showing a citizen pulling up and stuffing a whole bunch of ballots into it. And then the video was, you know, obviously the box is being rigged and stuffed right in front of the CNN guy and he does…

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y are fundamentally different but not in ways that you give a shit about. In the ways that matter they're just a bunch of racists at the bottom. At the top, normal people. At the bottom, bunch of racists. We're going to find something to be racist about. If you solved all their problems tomorrow they just find something else to be mad about.

So let us stop saying it's left and right. It's top and bottom. You could be at the top or you could be at the bottom. I'd like to be at the top with all the good Democrats and good Republicans and good Independents who are not racist in any meaningful way.

All right. So here's the good news. I believe that this wakeup call where the Jewish Americans are starting to say holy crap, the people we thought were our allies see us as white colonizers, not just in America but in Israel. Like the American Jews are waking up to being called not just colonizers but double colonizers, like colonizing Israel and colonizing America. Double colonizers. And you know that's going to change some political opinions. So I would imagine that the Jewish American appreciation of Trump and of the normal Republicans, the ones at the top of the circle not the ones at the bottom, I think they're going to appreciate that there were a lot of people on their side that they didn't know were on their side.

And if any of those Jewish Americans buying guns would like some instructions on how to use them properly, I recommend a Republican. Do you think they'll be happy to help you? Absolutely. Absolutely. If there's any Jewish American who wants to know how to use a gun for self-protection in America, ask your Republican neighbor. They'll drop everything. Seriously they will change their plans to show you how to use that weapon. I guarantee it.

All right, let's talk about military aid to Israel. I'm completely pro-Israel in this Hamas situation. So starting with what my bias is, and I've told you before I'm going to maintain my bias. I'm going to talk about this later with a discussion of journalism and activism but I'm telling you I'm biased. That's as honest as I can get. I can't get more honest than telling you I plan to be biased on this one topic. You know we're probably all biased on everything but at least I'm going to give you full transparency, right?

The Zionist part, I'm just not engaged with really. My view of history and territory is that whoever can protect the territory owns it. That's just the way it's always been. Do I think that people in the past did bad things? Probably. Does it matter to anything today? Not to me. I understand it does matter to other people but don't act like I'm going to be convinced that history should change my mind about anything. No. Today there was a massive terrorist attack and Israel is acting exactly like human beings act in that situation. So what am I going to, you know what would be my criticism? Stop acting like human beings act whenever this situation happens. So yes it will be tragic what happens but it's going to happen anyway no matter what my opinion is.

So here's the question on military aid to Israel. My question was why does America pay for Israel's military stuff? Because we're doing it with debt. We don't have the money. We borrow the money for everything basically. And I asked is Israel, do they have a worse debt situation than America? Maybe they do. I mean if they did then you'd understand, oh you don't want to push Israel to bankruptcy. That's not going to help their security. So that would be a good reason. But I don't think that's the case. I think they probably could have gotten credit for some extra weapons and still buy them from America.

Now one of the reasons given why military aid to Israel makes sense for America is not just that they're an ally and we want them to win, because in any case they would either buy it or we would pay for it but they still have the weapons. I think. I mean that's something that has to be checked. But one argument was that if we give the military aid to Israel, Israel will refine and test our weapons which is good for us. Good testing ground. But also that would give America influence over Israel's decisions. To which I say is that the best reason? Is the best reason that it would give America influence over Israel? Because I wonder, does that philosophy work in all situat

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ions? Should we also give away our weapons to Saudi Arabia or do we make them pay for them? Because wouldn't we want to have influence over Saudi Arabia? I think we do. I mean in some military sense we probably do. And what if we take it to the illogical extreme? Why don't we give weapons to Hamas so that we would have control over them and then we tell them not to attack anybody? Okay that was ju…

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