Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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e like them were the ones who evolved from the more primitive stuff. Literally the most racist thing you could ever come up with. And then they embedded it into basic science, when in fact the evidence seems to suggest that humans started in maybe more than one place. And that's the whole story. But there was a lot of interspecies banging. The early days of humanity must have been wild because it…

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d and people keep calling you accidentally a clown's name? I mean there aren't that many famous clowns, right? How many clowns can you name? Go. How many clowns? There's Ronald McDonald and then Bozo. Give me another clown. There are very few clowns that you can name, right? I mean Red Skelton a million years ago, right? So they're all, yeah, I don't know about the Burger King. That's more of a weird king thing. Krusty the Clown. Thank you. Krusty the Clown. Clown Adams, clever. Okay, yeah, but it's very unfortunate to be criticized and also have a name people think sounds like a clown.

But she was interviewed by Laura Ingraham on Fox, and I have to say she came off as not capable. Now I have no inside knowledge to know if she does a good job or a bad job. I don't have any opinion on that at all. I wouldn't know what a good job looked like actually. You could tell that Republicans aren't winning as much as they'd like to, but you know, I can't tell from the outside who's doing what or who should do what better. You should have accountability though. So it doesn't matter. The details don't matter. If you're not getting it done, you're not getting it done. Time to try something else

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. But she did not come across as capable. Did anybody else watch it? Did you have the same impression? I could have been primed, you know, too primed to see it that way. But even so, Laura Ingraham asks her a basic question and she runs off on this long thing and uses up all her time answering the wrong question. And then Laura calls her out like, that wasn't even really the question I asked. She…

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