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lp Israel militarily with Gaza? Don't you think that would be direct? That's about as direct as you could get. But then you might say well that's just what everybody wants. So it's not like AIPAC is the one entity that wants Israel to fight back against Gaza or against Hamas. So anyway it gets kind of murky is what I'm saying. By the way today is not only October 7th the horrible anniversary of…

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raditions are that the sukkah is a hut and it has to do with something in their ancient history where they built a hut and lived in it. So as part of the celebration many people build a little temporary hut and then they hang out in it and maybe sleep in it overnight. Kind of cool.

Netanyahu is saying that Iran could soon target the US with its missiles. Do you think Netanyahu really wants a peace deal? How many of you think that Netanyahu wants a peace deal that puts Hamas a little bit having a little bit of influence after it's all done? I'm going to say no. I don't think he wants that at all. So we'll see how that goes.

Trump says the Gaza peace talks are going quote very well. So Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are there to seal the deal. As I've told you before they're both closers. So those are the best closers you could ever send. That doesn't mean it'll get closed but they're the best closers the US has probably ever had.

So here's what I think. I've said this before but it's worth saying again. If you think that what's happening is negotiating I think you're wrong. If it looks like negotiating and they'll talk about it like negotiating and all the activities will look like negotiating but that's not what's happening.

What's happening is the only way this deal gets done because Hamas has basically said yes but no and Israel has basically said yes but no. And both places in both cases the but no part is the important part. The yes part isn't even the important part. It's the but no that's the important part.

So how do you get a deal when both sides have just said but no on the most important things such as does Hamas have a seat at the table and do they get to keep some weapons? That's not a small deal. That's right in the important part.

Well here's my frame. I think that Trump if he negotiates even with these great closers Witkoff and Kushner if he negotiates he loses and he doesn't get a deal. But that's not what he's doing. It only looks like negotiation. Here's what it really is. He's changing reality. He's changing reality. He's changing how we view reality itself.

He's basically telling us this is going to happen even though all of our common sense and all of our experience says it won't. If he can convince us that this will happen despite all evidence to the contrary then he will have reframed reality itself independent of any negotiating. The negotiating can't get him there. You can't get there from here because neither side is going to give up the important things.

The only way you can get to a good conclusion is you have to change reality. In other words people have to think they woke up in a different reality. Can he do it? Yes he can. That's the fun part. Nobody else can. Steve Jobs could if he were not dead he could. Could Elon Musk do it? I don't know. I don't know maybe. But Trump can. Trump can change reality.

And anything short of reframing reality itself is not going to get you there. You can't get there by negotiating. You have to look like you're negotiating but you got to change reality. And you got to change it big time. And I believe that Trump knows that like nobody else knows it. Like he's the one person who completely understands that the reason he's saying yes we're close even though objectively speaking it doesn't look close to me doesn't look anywhere near close but as long as he keeps doing the Kamala Harris thing you know it was the closest election it was the closest election it was the closest election then you're going to start thinking maybe it was a close election.

And if he says we almost have a deal we're so close we're oh it's just the details we almost have a deal we're totally going to get a deal. I think maybe the Nobel Prize would be in it's going to look like this and it's going to look like this. It's so exciting. We're so close to a deal. That's redefining reality. And that's what he's doing right in front of you. He's redefining reality.

And if he reframes it enough then the people who are hard nosed about some of the details suddenly they wake up in a world where yes is the more rational reason or the more rational thing to do. So if he pulls this off like I said it'll be the greatest thing a president ever did. Just ever. 50% chance.

All right. What else? So I saw a post by Jimmy Dore. You all know Jimmy Dore, podcaster, stand-up comedian. He says that Israel will definitely do false flags inside the US to I assume that means to get us to stay unfriendly to Hamas so that the peace doesn't come. The theory here is that maybe Netanyahu doesn't really want peace but he has to play along as long as he can. So it doesn't look like he's resisting.

And Jimmy's theory is that Israel would do a false flag which would be an attack on US assets and or people that would be blamed on Hamas. And then that would give Netanyahu a way to say see see you can't do a deal with them. Yep you just have to destroy them.

Now I went

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to Grok and I said how often does a false flag happen? Has Israel ever done a false flag? Well I thought I knew but I did not. So here's what Grok said. There were two examples that you might call a false flag. One was in 1954 called the again this is from Grok so I don't know if it's hallucinating or not I probably should have looked that up but it's called the Lavon affair. It's and Grok says it…

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