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r own bodies they just haven't executed on that control. Harris says you want the freedom to love openly and whoever you want openly and with pride to which I say which freedom is that? That's not a freedom you want. Do you want anybody to be able to express any form of love? I think you'd want to protect the children a little better wouldn't you? What about bestiality? Now here I'm not comparing…

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she got fact checked hard by Greg Gutfeld who was there to tell her Trump never said drink any bleach nor did he say inject bleach. And here's the real thing here's the funny thing. She acted like she didn't know that. And I thought that she was kind of smart she just had you know different priorities and different political views but you would have to be kind of stupid to not know that was a hoax or if you didn't know it was a hoax that's kind of stupid. Here's how you should know that's a hoax. Nobody would say that. That's it. You don't even have to research it. Nobody would say that. Do you know how I know that? Well I mean basically it's a good test if you just say to yourself would any human ever say that and if the answer is no nobody would ever say that that's your answer. You don't have to look into it.

So that was fascinating. I thought she was a lot smarter than that but she proved that she is not terribly smart if you literally believe that Trump suggested injecting bleach or drinking bleach. I don't know how you explain that except low IQ. I don't. Could you be that hypnotized? I don't know.

Meanwhile America First Legal is doing good stuff again. So they went after that Brennan Clapper intel community they're calling it in which they were trying to do this whole of government approach to silence political dissent. So these two ex top intel people in the United States were part of an organized Democrat program to make sure that free speech was limited. That's a real thing. It's just amazing that that's real. So anyway America First Legal's after him. They publicly released all the documents from that committee so and that they obtained that in litigation. So there's going to be litigation.

Here are some updates on other things. There SciTech Daily has a story that if you add dopamine to an Alzheimer's patient it almost immediately helps. So Japanese researchers have discovered that dopamine treatments could alleviate Alzheimer's symptoms because it promotes production of something. And so I guess they've tested in mice and they've got good hope that it might work in humans but they haven't tested yet.

Now here's another one where you could have asked Scott. I believe I've told you on livestream that dopamine is implicated not just in making you happy because that's how we usually think of it but it's an emotion it creates activity in your body. If you don't have dopamine you'll just sit there you won't get up. Your brain will say I should get up you just won't do it if you don't have dopamine. So I knew from one of my smartest friends a while ago that Alzheimer's could be treated with a dopamine like treatment. That's what L-Dopa is. L-Dopa is an existing treatment for Parkinson's because they thought dopamine would help. So this is new research and maybe they got a deeper understanding of it but yeah it's dopamine. Dopamine is what the Alzheimer's people need anyway. So I was thinking of Parkinson's actually. I think I was conflating Parkinson's with Alzheimer's in my bad explanation to what's happening. But I do think that generally speaking dopamine is sort of a necessary component for all of your functioning. So I'll broaden that and try to correct what I just said wrong because I was thinking of Parkinson's when I said L-Dopa. But if you think that your muscles need dopamine is it any surprise that your brain does? I feel like you could have just guessed that without doing this study anyway.

Here's a Venezuela update. The Maduro regime is trying to jail the opposition leaders of course. I guess that's what happens when he win happened in the United States so why wouldn't it happen in Venezuela?

Hamas has picked a new chief because somebody and maybe it was Israel assassinated the head of Hamas. So now the new head is their head of their terror group previously. So you've heard of him Yahya Sinwar. So they took the worst terrorist leader within Hamas and promoted him to be the actual head of Hamas because that guy got assassinated. Now let's talk peace huh.

Have you seen any of the interviews with Palestinians after October 7? I've seen a number of interviews on the street kind of thing where somebody will say all right was October 7 justified? And every person I saw interviewed everyone said oh yeah totally justified. And then they would be asked do you think a two-state solution could work? And every one of them says no no no there's no two-state solution there's a one-state solution and their one state solution is Israel goes away.

Now am I getting accurate information meaning these street interviews are they intentionally editing out the Palestinians who say something like yeah we just need our two states and we can live next to each other and everything will be fine we just need to stop fighting. You know we'll try to get the Hamas people to settle down a little bit we'll work on that on our side maybe you could work on your side and we'll get together. Nothing like that. No. So I have a question whether I'm being brainwashed because it would be a good brainwashing technique to do all these people in the street interviews and just edit out anybody who was for peace and then you would get the impression that there would be no point in even talking to the Palestinians because they only want to destroy Israel. Now it might be true you know maybe it's like 85% of the population I'm just guessing but what if 85% of the population wants nothing except the destruction of Israel? I think that could be the case but I wouldn't say it based on all the interviews because you know they're not reliable. But I do think that the brainwashing among the Palestinians is probably strong enough and comprehensive enough that there's nobody in the public who wants peace. They wish they weren't being shot at and they wish they could do what they want and they wish Israel didn't exist and all that but I don't think they want peace. I don't see any movement to it.

And if anybody wants to convince me that the Palestinians want peace it would be really useful for somebody on that side you know a pro-Palestinian journalist to go over there and show me some interviews of just ordinary people stopped in the streets who say yes please we want to end fighting and have a two-state solution that's living in peace next to each other. I don't know that they exist do you? Is there anybody watching who's had enough connection with Palestinians who are in the area who can tell me am I wrong? Is there not a single person in the entire community who wants peace without destroying Israel? I don't know that's a pretty big question isn't it? Why are we even talking about a peace deal if we don't know the answer to the question is anybody in favor of pea

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ce? Is there even one person in the Palestinian areas in favor of peace? Haven't seen one yet. I assume they exist and I assume that I would be subject to being brainwashed by never seeing one. So I got a real question about the brainwashing on that point. I'd love to know what the real opinion of the Palestinian people is over there. But I can tell you that if Hamas is picking the Sinwar guy as t…

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