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d yep, every single thing you asked for we're going to give you. So we'll see. Wall Street Journal was reporting on that. And just the news was also, according to New York Times writer Ezra Klein, and he's making a lot of news because he has a new book out. And as you know the Democrats are in bad shape. They don't have leadership and they don't have a direction. So when one of them writes a book…

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arently we're seeing a similar kind of shift in Canada, the UK, and Norway.

Would you like to know the real answer? You know I always joke when I see scientific stuff and I always joke, it's sort of my ongoing joke, well you could have just asked me because your conclusion is so obvious you didn't need to do the study at all. This is one of those. This is so obvious you didn't need to do the study at all. Does anybody want to take a crack at it before I give you the right answer?

So what's the right answer to why in various different countries, so it's not the individual leaders, it's not the leaders, it's not Trump per se, but why is it in various countries at the same time the men are moving in one direction and the women are moving in another? What do you think that is? I'm looking at your comments. Tate and Rogan? No, no, because remember it's international and they don't have the same impact in every country. Men are for security? That's close. You're knocking on the door. Let's see. Women are mentally ill, says DM. CIA, DEI. Okay, you're all in the right area. Right, you're very close.

Let me say it to you in the simplest possible way. Men do not like to be ruled by batshit crazy women with batshit crazy policies. Anything else that you say about this topic is a complete waste of time. Let me say it again just so you hear it clearly. Men of every age, but the young ones probably are more flexible to change their opinion and change their party, men especially young ones don't want to be ruled by batshit crazy women with batshit crazy policies.

Now hear me clearly. I'm not saying that all women are batshit crazy, so don't hear that. But the ones in charge for whatever reason are unusually batshit crazy and their policies are clearly batshit crazy. Hey, let's open up the border and eat bugs and get rid of your gas car and kill all the nuclear power plants and decrease your military until somebody can own you. It's just batshit crazy stuff that apparently young women are saying some version of go girl. Yeah, I just love it when women are in charge.

So I think women are just being drawn to women leaders because they think they're being heard. And men are saying are you kidding? You look like you have mental illness. You don't even look like a leader. Why are you saying things that are crazy? Why are you doing things that are clearly bad for me? Why are you overtly discriminating against white men? And then but it's not even the white men. So apparently Trump won with men, men in every category, and even I think even won with women if you don't count women of color. So I think Democrats only won in one category, women of color.

So clearly men are tired of being discriminated against and women have no idea that they've been the brutal part of the brutal discrimination regime for decades. And men are just done. We're just absolutely done. And at the moment since men are not being recruited into the military they don't have a bigger mission. So if they're just standing around looking at the news and looking at their own life they say why can't I get a job there if I'm a man? And then they look at the leaders and they say why are these ideas so crazy like opening the borders? That's not a difference of opinion. That's batshit crazy versus common sense. To imagine that these are some kind of political difference, that's a stretch. Yeah, you're talking absolute mental illness and incompetence and gross discrimination against males. Of course you're going to get this. It was the most predictable thing that could have ever happened. So just ask me next time you get confused about this gender stuff. I'll clear it up.

Meanwhile Chuck Schumer is being accused of saying the quiet part out loud. I think we overuse that phrase but Jim Hoft at the Gateway Pundit is writing about this. So Schumer was on one of the TV shows and he said that they've got 235 progressive judges. And he said yes our democracy is at risk because Donald Trump shows that he wishes to violate the laws in many many different ways. And then he says the good news here is that we did put 235 judges, progressive judges, judges not under the control of Trump last year on the bench and they are ruling against Trump time after time after time.

Now this kind of brings into question the definition of a judge, doesn't it? If Chuck Schumer knew when he picked these 235 judges that they would be spring-loaded to vote against Trump, and he doesn't think that conservatives would have done it. Really? I feel like conservatives can be a little bit unpredictable because they're trying to interpret the original meaning of the Constitution. And you could imagine some would have a slightly different view of what the original interpretation was. So conservatives tend to be at least a little bit unpredictable. You know they can cross lines when they say okay this is just too far for me. You know I think the Constitution would have gone this way. But on the left that doesn't seem to be what's going on. It seems to be that they're just purely anti-Trump and it wouldn't matter what he did or what the argument was. They're going to just oppose him.

Now isn't that the opposite of a judge? Shouldn't a judge be a little bit unpredictable? As in okay well they're definitely going to look at the facts and they're going to look at the Constitution and they'll make a judgment based on the law and the Constitution. But that doesn't seem to be what's going on. It seems to me that they were literally picked because they would oppose Trump. That would be the opposite of a judge. A judge should be using just the data and the facts and the law and the Constitution. But if Chuck Schumer knew when he picked these judges that they would oppose Trump, I don't think he means just when there's some technical violation of the law. I don't think that's what's going on. I think they just oppose him everything all the time.

So he basically, Schumer has destroyed an entire branch of government. Let me say that again. Schumer sounds like quite intentionally with the other Democrats destroyed an entire branch of government because he hired so many people who are completely willing to just make a political decision instead of a legal or constitutional decision. That is really not the way the system is supposed to run.

So anyway, you know I'll take a fact check. It does seem to me that conservative judges are usually predictable but I feel like they still only have arguments that are based on the Constitution and I just don't see that on the other side.

All right, so Trump has said that according to Just the News, Misty Severi is writing that he announced that there are a draft of contracts being drawn up that would divide the land in Ukraine. And that the idea is that we might be kind of close to some kind of a deal with Russia and it would involve trading land for peace. Well actually probably Russia just keeping land it has for peace.

Do you believe that? Remember I told you yesterday there are two ways to negotiate this, the end to this war, that definitely won't work. One of the ways is to not have Ukraine at the table when the deal is made. Because if Ukraine is no

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t at the table then even if you try to force them to accept it they're going to find partners in Europe to disagree and they're going to push back and they're going to drag their feet and they're first going to say yes but then later they'll say no. It just won't get done. So you can't, you'll never get a deal if you don't have the Ukrainians at the table. So that's one way you'll never get a deal…

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