Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
Scott Adams Philosophy Archive
Search ideas
Episodes Episode #3016 Segments
MainContent Persuasion

Back to episode — Episode 3016 CWSA 11/12/25

Context —

now what you're talking about. Policies? Never heard of them. Fight, fight, fight. You got to fight, fight, fight. And whoever does the best acting job of being a fighter will be the standard bearer for the Democrats probably. They're so not on the right page. The right page is not to do a theatrical rendition of a play that you call the fighter. That's not what anybody's asking for. They actuall…

← Previous segment →

irely concealed by the shadows. Notice how I avoided saying black so it didn't sound racist. And then he takes down the hood and his face and you're like, "Ah, grim reaper. The grim reaper. He would be the best grim reaper ever."

All right. Well, as you know, Turning Point USA had an event in Berkeley, UC Berkeley, and there was some dusting up and some people got roughed up and there was a little bit of violence, way too much. I don't want to minimize it, but now there's going to be a Department of Justice investigation into the failures of security. And the theory is that you don't treat this one as just some random bad day that some protesters showed up and you wish they hadn't, but rather it looks like it might be part of the pattern. And the pattern is that when the left wants to censor the right, they simply don't give enough security where they know security is warranted.

Do you think that's a real thing? Do you think that people on the left actually think that through? Not necessarily coordinated, but maybe sort of all on the same page. Do you think that they intentionally give inadequate security so that if somebody goes and talks, they can say, "Well, we told you. We told you it was going to be a mess. We can't let them speak. Look what happened at Berkeley. There's no way we can afford all the security it would take to avoid what happened in Berkeley."

All right. You're almost unanimous. You all believe it looks like you all believe that that's intentional. I think I'm on your side on this. I wouldn't say that there's a smoking gun, but you can smell it before you can see the smoke. That's sort of where I am. I can smell it. I don't see the smoke. So I'll say we're short of something that I would call proof, but boy, you can smell it. So consistent with everything else we know about the world. It sort of fits right into that frame, doesn't it? Like it fits the whole Mike Benz view of the world. Plus yeah, it smells.

Apparently the White House is responding to some complaints I talked about, which is that a lot of companies that have public stock have these proxy entities that go and get the votes essentially. They're the ones that cast the vote on behalf of lots of stockholders, which gives them a lot of control over companies. And it's not really the kind of control you'd want them to have over companies because it doesn't help their profitability. They might be looking for some woke stuff to happen. Basically it's a distortion of the free market.

And without getting into too much of the boring details of how that works, essentially there are a few entities like ISS, that's a company, and index fund giants such as BlackRock and I think there's another famous one that should be mentioned there. I don't know which one, but they know who it is. And the complaints are coming from people like Elon Musk and Jamie Dimon. You know, the most important banker and the most important technologist, engineer, entrepreneur in the world. So they

Context —

're on the same page, which is you need to get rid of this proxy voting stuff. And apparently the White House has opened up some kind of a project to look into it. You say Fidelity, State Street. Yeah. I'm not sure. I don't want to throw out names because I don't know. How many of you saw the video of the Russian humanoid robot? I thought it was fake. The video shows the Russians introducing on…

Next segment → →