Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
Scott Adams Philosophy Archive
Search ideas
Episodes Episode #2768 Segments
NewsReaction Economics & Finance

Back to episode — Episode 2768 CWSA 03/04/25

Context —

eir own economic interest. If you said oh we're going to go protect this country on the other side of the world that doesn't have a direct impact on us even if we meant it it's not terribly persuasive. But if you say we're not going to give up a trillion dollars in mining operations which are critical to our most important industries like AI and self-driving cars and robots, we're not going to giv…

← Previous segment →

perating independently to feel like you know one of them wasn't totally biased.

Meanwhile Governor Newsom of California according to Joel Pollak and Breitbart is ordering state employees back to the office. So Newsom's plan to act more like a Republican seems to be right on point. So he's copying DOGE and making the Californians come back to work. Now he says only four days a week which would be a lot but it does remind you that the Democrats just painted themselves into the corner of all corners by being opposed to common sense. So whenever they embrace a little bit of common sense it just looks like they're copying and then you say well why do we need them if they're just copying? You know just Republicans already do it and you don't have to wonder if they mean it because Republicans tend to only do things they mean.

So the Democrat strategy of saying let's do more common sense things and emphasize patriotism and get rid of the identity politics, how does that work from an election strategy perspective? So follow me on this. If somebody likes what Republicans do and they like what Trump does and they like especially that Trump is emphasizing common sense solutions is there any scenario in which they vote Democrat because oh it's all the same now now they're both doing common sense so I guess I'll abandon my love of MAGA and I'll vote for a Democrat? Not many people are going to do that because it looks like one side means it and the other side is just doing fast copying and you couldn't even be sure that if you looked away they would still do common sense stuff because it's not really in their genes. But meaning the party's genes not any individuals genes. And wouldn't it just make the extreme people in their own party, the Democrats, wouldn't it just make them not show up to vote? So if they copy Republicans and try to be the common sense ones wouldn't the only net effect be to reduce their own base because it's not going to make any difference to a Trump voter. No Trump voter is going to say oh look those Democrats look good today I'll go over there for a day. I don't think so. So it makes me wonder if they've thought anything out like even on paper it doesn't look like it can work even though obviously backing common sense makes sense but how can that work?

Now the other thing I notice is that when Republicans talk, have you noticed the Republicans have a vibe like you could probably tell who's a Republican if they're talking on TV. Takes you about 10 seconds to say ah probably a Republican because they have a let's say a buttoned up kind of Republican conservative way of talking about things. And I would say that that's authentic because it's the lifestyle that they've adopted. They are influenced by the people that they like and people arou

Context —

nd them. So nobody is completely natural but Republicans talk and act and think like Republicans. But Democrats have this weird thing where the most prominent part of their party are just theater kids and they try to sell their ideas with their faces. Have you noticed that? If you listen to a Republican trying to sell a policy they'll say well if we do this and that we'll get this impact so that's…

Next segment → →