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Back to episode — Episode 2530 CWSA 07/08/24

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ongressman from Grand Rapids called Gerald Ford. Oh, what was Ford's qualification for the job? Yeah, what was it? Well he had served on the Warren Commission which absolved the CIA of responsibility for President Kennedy's murder. Nixon was strong-armed into accepting Gerald Ford by Democrats in Congress. Quote, "We gave Nixon no choice but Ford," Speaker of the House Carl Albert later boasted.…

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f only half of it's true.

Now some of us have said for a while that we would know immediately when the CIA decided to turn on Biden and they needed to make a change. And do you remember me saying that as soon as you saw Rob Reiner and Stephen King turn on him that that was the signal? Rob Reiner and Stephen King just turned on him. So almost like it was coordinated. They both said we're out. Now they're not voting for Trump of course but they're saying uh oh we need a new candidate. Coincidence? Rob Reiner has some contacts in the CIA. He's the head of some group that has two of the ex-CIA heads in it. So he's very connected. We know that from public documents. You don't have to do research needed.

So to me it looks like those two are off the sinking ship. Now this gets us to our Deadpool. The pool of who would be the most ridiculous celebrity who would be the last one to abandon Biden when it's so obviously he's mentally deranged. And I'm going to go still, this was my original guess, with Punchy De Niro. And the reason is I don't think he's a political asset. I don't think he's an intelligence asset. I think he's just crazy. And so I don't think that mentally he can change his mind. It may be just too hard. So I still have him as the last celebrity who will abandon Biden just 'cause his level of crazy looks different than the others.

All right, let's see what else is going on here. In Semaphor, the publication Semaphor, there's talk about having a blitz primary, you know, rapid fire primary to get Biden replaced. You know what the problem with that is? That even today Biden did a detailed letter announcement saying he's not quitting. He's definitely not quitting. Now here's the problem. It really is sort of up to him unless they kill him. Unless they actually Kennedy him, it's him.

So you know, the CIA, I think there's a good chance the CIA will murder Biden. Maybe make it look like an accident. You know, take him to the hospital, give him a shot sort of thing. So I'd say that the odds of Biden surviving to election day would be high if you're just talking about him being alive in his normal way. His brain will be gone but I think he'd be alive by election day probably. However I think it's more like a coin flip. I think the odds of the CIA killing him just to make sure that they have time to put somebody else in there, it's pretty good. It's pretty good. Maybe 50% chance they'll kill him.

Now I'm not in favor of that. If I say it casually it's because that's the world we live in. The reason I say it casually is that is the world we live in. That's not a fantasy. There by now there must be guaranteed conversations in the government about killing him. Because if they killed two Kennedys and if they took Nixon out and they clearly tried to take Trump out, these are all intelligence assets. What would stop them from killing him? We all expect he's going to die soon. So you think if we heard that he had a heart attack on Air Force One and then the CIA controlled whoever does the autopsy, you don't think they can get away with that? How hard would it be? Just give him a shot of something and control the autopsy. That's it. It's not even hard. You could murder him so easily. Just give him the little shot, control the autopsy, say oh doctors say totally normal, man that age, completely expected he would have a heart attack.

So if he dies suddenly without a long illness it's going to look like murder to me. You've been warned. So I'd say that's a coin flip. And I don't think that there's time for any blitz primary. I don't think Biden's going to quit. And I'm going to go with Van Jones. I think I said it before he did but Van Jones is saying now that Kamala is the candidate one way or the other and people just have to sort of wrap their heads around it. She's either going to be raised up as president, which Van would call the easy way, meaning if she could take over now then it's a more natural transition to be the candidate because she would be the president. It's natural. She would have control of the funds. You wouldn't have to do much work. You know it'd be fairly easy. It'd be the easiest transition.

But Van says if you can't do it the easy way, which is Biden steps aside, you're going to have to do it the hard way, which is Biden's at the top of the ticket but you convince people to vote because they're voting for Kamala. Does that sound familiar? That's my prediction. My prediction is that when you flip the coin it's going to land on the edge and stay there. Meaning that we're going to have the Schrödinger's candidate. One dead and one alive. And you'll disagree on who you're voting for. So two Democrats will walk into the voting booth. They'll both vote for the Democratic candidate for president. One will walk out thinking he voted for Biden. The other one will walk out thinking he voted for Kamala Harris. It'll be the same vote. Schrödinger's candidate. It's coming. And on paper there's no other way it can go.

I was listening, like I said, to the All-In pod which is so influential. I was listening to David Sacks say essentially the same thing. That there's the design of the current system. There isn't any way it's going to go a different way. You know you could say there's a wild card that Biden has a health situation that's worse than we've seen and that's possible. But in all roads Kamala becomes the candidate. So there is no road where she doesn't become the candidate. So everybody who's doing, as Sacks calls it, wish casting where you do the thing okay then and then Madonna comes in with Oprah and between the two of them they talk Michelle Obama into running. And no, no, none of that is going to happen. They don't have the time. They don't have the will. They don't have the ability. But more importantly they don't have the need. They don't need to do anything because their one and only acceptable situation because the base wouldn't allow anything else is that the DEI hire Kamala can't be skipped over. So she's got the money. She's got the DEI hire. She's got the job. It's her.

If you're fantasizing it's somebody else, stop. And if you say to yourself oh but they would never do that because you know she's such a bad candidate. Are you kidding? Have you been paying attention? They ran Biden. You don't think that they're worried. You don't think that they'd run Kamala just because she's the second worst candidate of all time. Every bit of indication is that they do want a weak, hollow, don't president like Kamala Harris as long as she's on their team. That's all that matters and they'll handle the rest.

The fact that the stock market doesn't even react to the fact that we have two mentally incapable people vying for the top position, I'm talking about the two Democrats here, the fact that it doesn't even react is kind of a general acknowledgement that the important people, the ones with all the money, don't really think the president's that important in the final analysis.

All right. Who else wants Biden to leave? Let's see. You've got Jerry Nadler is saying that Biden should leave now. If you're looking for signals that things have gone far enough, when Jerry Nadler says somebody should get out of politics for health reasons. Jerry Nadler saying he should drop down for health reasons. I mean what's left? Adam Schiff no longer supporting him. What do you know? When you know Adam Schiff is no longer supporting Biden. He didn't say drop out. He's just playing as Shifty. He's sort of noncommittal at this point. What's that tell you?

Well would you expect that Adam Schiff is a regular Democrat? No he's one of the liars. He's the pro-liars. He's not as bad as Jamie Raskin, opposite man. When they send the opposite man out it's so he can tell you the opposite of what's true. It's all he does. He doesn't ever do anything with nuance. It's like did it rain today? No it did not rain today. Well why is everything wet? Why are the clouds dropping these things that look like wet things? Well but there's no water today. Everybody can see it. You know he's just opposite man. Just like when they send out worse than Watergate guy. It's not because he has good opinions. It's because they need the worse than Watergate guy.

So opposite man and worse than Watergate guy, if you see them both come out then the media is hiding a big one. And Adam Schiff I think based on his actions appears to be just an intelligence asset. Would you agree? Now the only reason I say that is the way he acts. He does things that don't look like a regular politician. And he's also one of the ones who will go into the SCIF and tell you that he saw something that wasn't there. I mean that's pretty deep criminality without actually being illegal I guess. So there's no way he's a regular politician, right? He's got some kind of connections with the intelligence community. Otherwise I can't imagine he'd even be there.

So if you're losing those guys and you're losing Rob Reiner and Stephen King it would seem that the intelligence community has decided they want Biden out. But I think they want Kamala Harris in. So don't expect to see a rapid primary. Very unlikely.

Boeing has pleaded guilty to criminal fraud for a couple of airplane crashes in which they conspired to defraud the government. So I guess they lied to the government about maybe the details of that situation. So that's going to cost them $243 million which they'll make back in 10 minutes because the military industrial complex will give them a $10 billion deal and then they'll be able to pay their fine to the government. So I just assume all that's crooked. I don't know that. I just assume.

Well over in France I've been trying to figure out what's going on over there because it's a confusing place. But here's what I understand. You have multiple parties, not just two. So Macron's party was one of three that were let's say roughly equally powerful but his was in power. People didn't like him. The people on the right didn't

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like him. The people on the far left didn't like him. And so there was an election and the one with the most votes was the one on the far right. But their system apparently has some kind of runoff situation. And what happened was the people on the far left teamed up with I guess Macron's group so that they could pick their own leader. So basically if you had the two lesser loved groups together t…

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