Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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xact opposite standard for Ruby and for Hunter. For them innocent until proven guilty but if there's an allegation of ghost buses and we don't know enough about them guilty. Guilty. If they would like to tell us everything they know about the ghost buses, if they would like to tell us everything they know about the number of undercover people then I say oh maybe not guilty. Maybe just doing your j…

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him in jail but let me just say this clearly. I got 80 million reasons he's not going to jail. I got 80 million reasons he's not going to jail.

I think it'll be scary and risky and it's always possible but no no no there. You think Democrats don't know where the line is and I think sometimes they don't know where the line is. It's because conservatives are not easily flustered so they bend and bend and bend and bend and bend and bend and bend and bend and bend and bend and bend and bend right? Are you sick of it? Doesn't it seem like the Republicans just keep bending and they just bent over too far? But here's the thing that would make a Democrat be confused. If the people you're persuading against keep bending you keep pushing right? Why wouldn't you if it keeps working keep doing it? But I think the mistake is to think that the bending is a slippery slope that just keeps bending and that is very much not the personality of much of the country. Much of the country wants to ignore literally everything that they can ignore until they can't ignore it anymore. So if you put him in jail nobody can ignore that. Nobody can ignore it so it can't happen.

Now I suppose there's a possibility that some information would come up that even a Republican would say you know that was so bad he does have to go to jail but we have seen that everything looks just like weaponized Department of Justice. It doesn't look like the normal legal process is working against him. It looks political. So if Trump goes to jail I would feel as if I were already in jail. Would you? Like I feel because he's in a sense a standard bearer for a certain sensibility in this country. If they put him in jail I would feel like I'm next. Like the most of the things that happen in the news don't feel personal. It's like even a war if you don't know anybody who's in the war shooting it doesn't feel personal. It's like a topic in the news. But if

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you put Trump in jail I would feel that in every part of my body and I would clear my schedule and I would do nothing but trying to fix that because that would be too far. Way too far. And part of me actually wishes it happened. I don't wish him to be in jail but there are some fights you want. You know what I mean? Do you ever have that feeling? There are fights you want to avoid and that would b…

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