Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 25, 2026
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Let's talk about Andrew Yang. So Andrew Yang tweeted something that I retweeted. I think probably people thought I was maybe agreeing with his message, but that wasn't why I retweeted it. So I'm gonna read what he said and then I think you'll know why I had to read it. So this is Democratic candidate Andrew Yang talking about abortion. And he says the following in his tweet. Andrew Yang says, "I…

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Oh, of course the New York Times is reporting that the president's tariff deal with Mexico — or the tariff threat to get Mexico to do a better job with controlling illegal immigration. So the president says Mexico agreed. You know, the tariffs worked essentially or the tariff threat worked. And the New York Times is reporting that unnamed people will say that it was already going to happen so it's no big deal.

Didn't I tell you that was going to happen? Do you remember I told you yesterday, just wait for somebody to say it was already going to happen anyway? There was sort of the obvious fake news. But then the fake news comes out and it's unnamed sources.

So I would relegate that story to the fake news bin because it's the category of fake news which is unnamed sources said something happened in a meeting and it's not confirmed. It's not news. It's fake news.

Now, it could, I suppose, someday one of those will be true. But you should treat it as fake news just like you would treat a Bigfoot sighting. If CNN said guy gets a picture of Bigfoot, your first thought should be well, that's not true. But if later it provides a DNA sample and you have a dead body of a Bigfoot, you can change your mind. But when you first hear it — unnamed sources say something happened in a meeting and Bigfoot spotted — those are the same story. You should give them the same credibility.

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All right. That's all I got for now. I will talk to you later.

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