Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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You've heard a lot of updates about testing and it's probably very confusing to you. And so I did the work of researching it. So I've dug down. I learned everything there is to know about testing, all the various kinds of different sciences, the kits, where they're made, the swabs, the shortages. I've summarized this for you as: testing is all bullshit. Everything you've ever been told about testi…

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There's a new story. This is like a classic CNN story as you judge whether it's true. So apparently the president was shouting at his campaign manager Brad Parscale. You know he was on the phone and aides were in the room and I guess somebody leaked it. And he was shouting and he was shifting the blame to Parscale for the lower poll numbers he's getting recently. And reportedly Trump berated Parscale for a recent spate of damaging poll numbers, even at one point threatening to sue Parscale. Do you think that happened? I don't know. I mean as far as anything's possible. And then they say — this is from CNN — it's not clear how serious the president's threat of a lawsuit was. Well I'm gonna take a stab at it. Not too serious was my guess. I'm just gonna say because I'm no strategist, but if I were running for re-election this wouldn't be the optimal time to sue your campaign manager. So I'm just gonna say that maybe the president had that same thought. It's kind of an obscure thought. Maybe he didn't think of it but I think he probably did. Probably said to himself, I've got this election coming up, probably not the best time to get rid of my campaign manager.

So was there a tense phone call between the president and Brad Parscale? Could be. Do you think that that was captured by this reporting accurately? Probably not. Let me read to you the name of the sources. Oh, unnamed. How interesting. The sources are unnamed. It's a story about the president flipping out behind closed doors. How long will it be before the president says none of that happened and then Brad Parscale says that's funny but none of that happened? Probably tomorrow sometime.

Now I don't doubt that the president yells at pretty much everybody at one time or another so that part might be true. Who knows.

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So Twitter's mad at Ben Shapiro because he had the audacity to consider the costs and the benefits of reopening the economy and for the sin of including all of the costs and all of the benefits in this calculation. Because people were mad at him for other reasons I guess he is the worst person in the world and he wants to kill your grandmother. That makes sense, right? If somebody considers all th…

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