Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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, and here's my guess, I'm just going to guess that there are a few billionaires who are the main funding of this. You know it's probably open to anybody who wants to contribute to the fund but I'll bet you there's a few billionaires who are like the main funders. So it's not exactly everybody funding it. It's maybe a few individuals. And I think that they're putting their money where their mouth…

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don't know what that's about but it doesn't look organic. It looks like some, his phone got taken. My God. Oh no, iPhone taken. Somebody says well we don't know if that was true. Oh they took all of his devices. They took all of his devices. Somebody says Perry Johnson. Is Perry Johnson running third party? Perry Johnson is in favor of 2% cut. Oh okay. Adam's phone and iPad were seized by the feds. I'm seeing. Wow. Car trag all leads to where we are today. Okay I don't know them all.

All right, you're going to burn your devices? Well I'll tell you again this advice: assume that all of your communications are going to be public eventually because I think they might be. I think there's a day where quantum computing simply makes everything you've ever said public because it can crack everything and we're on the verge of that. So you should make sure that you don't have any murder plots or any felonies. I don't think you can get rid of anything that anybody else would criticize, right? If anybody saw your private conversations they'd have plenty to criticize because there's always somebody on every side of every issue. But don't have any felonies there. Do not have felonies on your digital communication. Misdemeanor bad behavior, saying some incautious things, a little bit of bigotry. If you've got those things you can probably survive them because if everybody's communication is public we're all going to look pretty similarly bad. But don't do a felony and put it on your digital communications.

You can't tell if he's trolling. Do you mean me? You think Mayor Adams is being taken down for challenging the illegal alien policy? Again the obvious interpretation is that that's

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exactly what's happening. So we're in a period where assuming the worst is also the most reasonable assumption. So I hate that. All right, that's all for you YouTube. Thanks for joining. I'm going to do one more test of traffic and you're going to have to repeat the word I say so I can see how long it takes for it to show up in the comments. It's going to be a new word. You ready for this? The ne…

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