Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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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 ju…

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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. So they did this really well. Whoever tweeted this knows what they're doing.

And it goes like this: "Joe Biden is using crooked Hillary as a character reference." Space. Space. Space. Space. That's it. That's the tweet. Yeah, isn't that great? "Joe Biden is using crooked Hillary as a character reference." Space space space. That's it. That's the tweet.

That's sort of what I like about it. It's got in my world when I write comics there are times when I'll get my funniest — the funniest part of the comic sometimes comes before the end. And when that happens I do what I call sort of the afterglow which is sort of the just the finish or the dessert. So maybe the joke happens in the last panel and then the last panel is just a little extra on top of the joke. And that's what this tweet did because the first part is the joke and then the second part is "that's it. That's the tweet." And then you get a little dessert. Well tweeted.

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Correct me if I'm wrong and I think that your mileage may vary on this but last week it looked like the following three things were not looking good. So last week we weren't sure that our herd immunity was even possible. Hydroxychloroquine was taking a hit for maybe killing people or not looking good but that was questionable. And then the Remdesivir. Last week there was that leaked report that ma…

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