Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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By the way, after the vote I'd like to get you all in on a prank. Can you cooperate with me? This is going to be a national prank. And all you have to do is, after the Senate votes to acquit the president for impeachment, you have to continually say that he was not impeached. It will drive the Democrats crazy. Now it has the advantage of being true-ish. You know, in our two movies on one screen, I…

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All right. So some of the highlights which made this the greatest show on earth. The State of the Union was not only, you know, did we have Trump not shaking hands with Pelosi when he comes in, and there's a little ambiguity about whether he did that intentionally or not. I tend to think it was intentional. That's my feeling. I think it was intentional because I don't think he wanted to look at her, see her. And by the way, do you have a problem with that? Do you have a problem that the president, the legally elected president of the United States who's doing a great job according to his supporters, and Nancy Pelosi leading a coup attempt against him for nothing but political reasons, really, as far as we can tell, did she have a right to eye contact and a handshake? I don't think so. I don't think she earned that. I don't think Pelosi earned any respect. And so the president didn't give her any. I'm okay with that.

Now, so we also saw the paper ripping. We saw the reunion of the family of the service member who came back. That was great. That was just great TV. Good. Everything about that was just perfectly executed. We saw Rush Limbaugh get his award. It was very emotional. And my favorite part is that when the president misspoke, he slurred a word. He was trying to say "sanctuary city" but it came out "statuary city," to which I said to myself, he's a natural. He can make up a nickname, a kill shot for a person with two minutes of thought, and it'll be like a permanent nickname that we all use. But he came up with a San Francisco linguistic kill shot. It's no longer just the sanctuary city that has human feces on the sidewalk. It is quite properly a stankuary city. Thank you very much. A stankuary city.

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I'm going to say that Nancy's ripping of the paper was a win for Nancy Pelosi. I realize if you look at social media that is exactly the opposite of what all the smart people are saying. I mean that all the smart people, people who in my opinion are very smart, are playing this like Nancy has sort of lost that round by dishonoring the occasion and by being disrespectful and it's all going to blow…

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