Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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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 we…

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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 looked like she couldn't handle even an interview. So it wasn't a good look.

So it was a good day for Vivek, who by the way has merchandised. Remember when Nikki Haley in the debate called him scum under her breath? Now he's created a line of merchandise that you can buy for his campaign with a kind of a cool logo. I have to admit whoever did the graphic design on his stuff, really good. It shows Vivek looking powerful in some military outfit and some American flag behind him for victory or for Vivek. And it's called Rebel Scum. So he added rebel to it. Rebel scum. I tell you this works every time the Republicans do it and it works never when the Democrats do it. Have you noticed that? Maybe that's just a bias on my part. But when the Democrats try to monetize or turn one of their insults into a positive, it doesn't quite work. You know, like the Let's Go Brandon thing they tried to do about Biden. It didn't really connect. But I feel every time a Republican tries it, it works. Like the deplorable mugs. A lot of deplorable mugs were sold and we still call ourselves deplorable, you know, jokingly. So yeah, it doesn't work the other way for some reason.

Well this little story is funny. This is where the level of trust is with our government. Here's how much we trust our government. I'll just read. So you might know that there was a big bust. There was a DC brothel that was taken down by the FBI on the same day that a number of people voted in Congress to authorize the building of an FBI new headquarters, $300 million Death S

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tar bigger than the Pentagon. And 70 Republicans even voted for it. And Mollie Hemingway had this post. She said, is it bad I assume all 70 GOP who voted to reward the FBI with a brand new headquarters are also clients of this brothel? So that's saying out loud what a lot of us were thinking, huh? On the very same day. It's almost like they're sending a message. It sounds very much like they were…

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