Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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e money. If there's a pile of money on the table everybody will walk by it except the people who are good at this. The people who are good at it will walk by and they'll say, a lot of big pile of money on the table. Can I have it? Does this belong to anybody? No it doesn't. And that's what AOC did by appearing on Fox News when other Democrats did not. She raised her national profile in a very subs…

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the right person. I'm sure other people had asked her but she chose the right one. So I'm just pointing that out as technique. You can go back to hating her like you used to.

All right what else we got going on? Somebody says to me wasn't she a racist POS? Yes yes she is. Now you can hold both thoughts. Am I not allowed to hold both of these thoughts? That AOC's statements and preferences etc. suggests a strong racism but that doesn't stop the fact that she's also tremendously talented as a public figure. Those can both be true. What's wrong with that? I'm not going to be the person who is just going to take a side. So if you need that go somewhere else. If

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you need me to say there's some good and there's some bad about both sides, you came to the right place. All right and I will talk to you later.

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