Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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rking them for destruction. So I think you could sell to the undereducated public that Marxism is based on the word mark, to mark somebody for death or mark them for destruction. Because that's how it plays out in reality. In reality it's a complaint about the oppressors. You're marking the oppressors, and the oppressors tend to have the money. So Marxism is marking people for destruction if they…

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did nothing, would end on its own because they're basically out of bullets. Ending the Ukraine war might be the single easiest thing that any American leader could do, because they really, really want to stop. Like both sides super, super want to stop fighting. I mean they really, really, really want to stop. That is the simplest, lowest bar of performance you could ever imagine. And Putin just took Biden out of contention for the most important thing that needs to get done probably right now. And he just said I wouldn't even talk to him. That's freaking awesome.

But it gets better. People assume if you look at the polls that if it's not Biden it's going to be Trump. Right now it might not be. There's legal stuff and who knows what. But didn't Putin just take Trump out too? Because basically Putin is saying, you know, Trump is my man. We'll wait for him and you know he'll give me a good deal, so I'll wait for that. Oh my God, that's brilliant. Because he's basically destroyed Trump's reputation by saying, hey I'll wait for my buddy Trump to get in office. And he's also destroyed Biden by saying he's not going to let Biden solve the easiest problem in the world to solve. He took out both presidents. I mean seriously, Putin, if you ever thought he was stupid you better modify that opinion, right? And I hate to be a fanboy for a murderous dictator. He's definitely a murderous dictator, so you know he's not my friend. But my God that's pretty competent. I got to say that's pretty competent. I'm very impressed. Persuasion is his game. Diabolical.

All right, here's just the weirdest thing that's happening. I've made this observation before. Have you noticed that huge stories that should be destroying your brain and be the biggest topic in the world, we're just ignoring? And it's because there's so many other things. And sometimes some things are so big that your brain can't hold it, so you just say, well I'll get back to that, but right now I'm worrying about pronouns or something. It's just too many things. And here's the one that really tells the story. According to Tucker Carlson — I'll read his opening statement — for more than 80 years

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the US government has hidden the existence of UFOs. The question is why. The answer is ominous. So apparently Tucker, having now talked to enough whistleblowers and looked into it for months and maybe years, at least months, Tucker has decided it's just a fact that UFOs are real and that the government is hiding it from us. He has completely left the land of maybe long behind him. He's now report…

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