Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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anch of a government to have the most blackmailable person as the leader. You can't do better than that if you're the head of the intelligence agencies. But on top of that, he's got to stay in power to stay out of jail, not just from the blackmail, but he's got to keep his pardon abilities and he's got to keep his ability to prevent people from investigating carefully because they might fear that…

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the country over to Trump. Well he's right. But what is behind the selfishness? I don't think the selfishness is he wants to be a two-term president. Biden might be the first legitimate president who said you know one term is fine. I don't know if anybody ever said that, but he might be the only person who ever legitimately expected to and wanted to have one term. Might be the only one because of his age. I think he still wishes he had one term. That's my assumption based on observation of his health and his performance. But can't read his mind, so you never know I guess.

The US set a new record with 15% of our current population is made up of immigrants. 4.5 million new immigrants settled since Biden took office. And there are now almost 50 million immigrants, both legal and illegal, residing in the country. Does that sound like bad news to you? Does your brain translate that into bad news? Because I feel like there's some bias in that. If you are, I mean like a lot of bias. We would have far fewer gigantic corporations in America like Google and things like that if we didn't have this many immigrants. Do you think that the net of 50 million immigrants, do you think the net net is negative? Does anybody th

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ink that? Yes? Okay, that's crazy. That's crazy. Most of these are legal immigrants who had the wherewithal to get to America because they wanted to work in this system. Are you kidding me? Let me say this unambiguously. 50 million immigrants in the United States is financial gold. That's financial gold. Now hold on. If you're shocked by that, it's because you're confusing the troublemakers with…

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