Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 25, 2026
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There's a New York Times article in which they have acknowledged that Google can brainwash citizens at will. Have you seen that? You know, I floated the idea the other day — was it yesterday? — in which you could have the social media platforms identify people who are starting to get radicalized by what they're watching and what they're typing, what they're saying, and what they're responding to.…

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All right, let's look at something else. Have you noticed that the Democrat candidates all look extra boring? Somebody says I'm next. I actually looked through the article to see if my name was there and it wasn't. So I had to read the whole damn article just to be sure I had not been sucked into that intellectual dark web continuum until I was the horrible, most horrible person in the world.

Anyway, so Trump has made all the Democrats look boring. And this is a bigger problem than you think. Because if you're boring, it's just hard to get elected. You know, when was the last time that the more boring candidate won the election? That's an anonymous question. I don't even know the answer to my own question, which I should if I ask it, you know, in that kind of a way.

Can you think of an example where the more boring candidate won? Carter? Who did Carter run against anyway? So in our current media-obsessed world, I don't think the boring candidate can win unless they have some other gigantic advantage. I don't know what that was or whatever that is.

And I think that's what's happening. Because wouldn't you say that both the left and the right are looking at the Democrats and it's this gigantic group of them and they're all saying they're boring? That's true, right? Everybody agrees that there's not a single person — and how many are there, twenty? — there's not a single person who isn't boring.

What are the odds that you would have that many people running for president and they're all boring? And the answer is they're not. The answer is they're not boring at all. They're only boring because President Trump exists. If President Trump had never existed, would anybody be calling them boring? Right? If there had never been a candidate and then a President Trump, you would never hear that this group of Democrats were boring because they wouldn't seem that way to you. They would seem kind of interesting. Hey, look, there's Andrew Yang, et cetera.

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All right. So I've got a thought experiment for you. But it goes like this. So I was talking about YouTube. And apparently YouTube is now banning the most racist KKK neo-Nazi material on YouTube. And so that's all that material that's associated with being over the line is being banned. And apparently that's legal. They can ban it because it's a private speech and whatnot. But let me ask you this…

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