Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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So it looks like Biden has lost CNN. So Chris Cillizza, who I would say would be their sort of chief hit man on the political side — if you want a bad story about Trump you call Chris Cillizza. So he's one of their stars who most often talks about what bad thing Trump has done today. But he's after the Biden campaign. So credit to Chris Cillizza. So this would be a fair and balanced approach. And…

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All right, here's something I'm seeing a lot of people saying that the real reason for the coronavirus shutdown or the real reason for this is that they want to control you and it's about power. I don't know that anything about the coronavirus is about power. I don't get that meaning. I'm not detecting that. It doesn't pass any of my experience filters. I don't detect any of that. So I say that just because a lot of what I like to do here is detect bullshit when I can. And then you can see later when we find out what's true you can find out. But I'm going to call BS on anybody having a motive about coronavirus except trying to get through it. Right? I feel like the public is pretty much on the same team. That we all want the best way through it. We just disagree maybe what's the best way.

You can ignore the politicians just lying at each other in public. That's not really anything but a show. That's for politics. So you know I doubt that at least with the coronavirus and the shutdown I doubt that anybody had that conscious thought that hey this would be a way to control people.

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All right, so the Trump War Room, which tweets for the Trump campaign, had a terrific tweet today and I will read it to you. And the timing, the comedic timing is even right because they leave a space and I always appreciate that because when you're writing humor in a tweet sometimes you want a little timing space. So it's like bah bah bah bah bah space. That ah, you know, and there's the reveal.…

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