Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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ever thought we would get to that point. But I want to show you a picture that I tweeted right before it was announced that good things are happening there. And I don't know how well you'll be able to see this but here's a picture of Pompeo. Oh darn it, you can only go the wrong way. So apparently I've managed to get my phone in a mode where it can only go the wrong way. Here we go. So see, look…

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ea. And that was necessary in order to get negotiation on an even playing field so that we could all be adults and we could get this done. As long as those other countries were treating us like children we couldn't get it done. But now that we're equals we got a deal.

That story is, if I were a North Korean and I heard that story I would say that actually sounds pretty good. We built our nukes. It got us an end of the war. It got us prosperity. We don't need the nukes anymore. They did what they needed to do. That's a great story. And indeed I've said that Kim would deserve at least to share a Nobel Peace Prize if he pulls this through. And I would like to see him get that actually.

All right, that's all for now and I'm going to talk to you later.