Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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ll the richest man in the world. I can keep this alive as long as I want. Yeah, with money. Are you serious? So if you want somebody to eventually change their mind, you want to make sure that they know it's hopeless and they're going to look like turds until they change their mind. Apparently there have been substantial cancellations of the Disney app since he said that. Yeah, Disney's going to…

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ally the simple explanation is his rockets are putting holes in space. Does it sound to you like maybe there are powerful entities who have decided to take Elon Musk out? Are you seeing any signs that maybe there's a coordinated attack? His rockets are putting holes in space. Come on, come on.

Then the other thing Musk said, which I took to be a comment about the ADL and people who act the same I guess: I am saying what I care about is the reality of goodness, not the perception of it. And what I see all over the place is people who care about looking good while doing evil. Them. Okay, now I think that would include ESG, probably includes the WEF, might include the WHO. Yeah, might include Democrats in general. I don't know. But he's got a point. It is really annoying that the people who are the most evil are the ones trying to convince you that they're the angels. Good point on that.

All right. Did any of you have trouble understanding why Musk was in trouble for commenting positively on the tweet? Did anybody look at the tweet that got him in trouble and read it and then reread it and say I'm not sure what the problem is? And here's what it looks like. It looks like it's the standard play that goes like this. You pretend you don't know what he says and then you never leave that frame. You just pretend you don't understand what he really meant. But of course you do.

Let me read, I'll remind you what it was and then I'll show you how they pretend they're reading it wrong. So this is the original poster, I don't know who it was, said something quote: "Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them." The post read. And then it went on, "I'm deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about Western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don't exactly like them too much." And then Musk replied, "You have said the actual truth."

Now what would make this super bigoted and racist is if he said that Jews in general are doing whatever this is. Is that how you heard it when you read this? Did you think he meant all Jews? No. You know why you didn't think it meant all Jews? Because nobody ever means that about any group. If you say black people have a high crime rate, you're never talking about all black people. That's what rap means, right? You're not talking about all of them. If you say Albanians like to wear hats, are you ever talking about all Albanians? Never. Never. Everybody knows that. If you say black people like hip-hop music, do you mean every black person likes hip-hop? Never. Never. Of course you don't mean that. And anybody who heard

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you would know that you did not mean that. So when this tweet said Jewish communities in the West, do you think there's any chance that he intended to mean every Jew in America? No. We all know that. Do you think that he included, now I guess the ratio I looked it up this morning, seven out of ten American Jews are Democrats. 70%. Do you think that Elon was including the 30% of conservative Jews…

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