Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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his is going to head, right? So I had a little bit of, I won't call it disagreement. I was confused at what Carl Bergstrom was saying on Twitter. Seems like a real well-informed, smart guy. And he was doing a real good job of explaining stuff. He was explaining specifically that the purpose behind flattening the curve, and his point was that the purpose is not just to keep people out of the hospit…

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take me out of context later. I doubt there was a good reason to shoot this man, meaning a situation was created that probably didn't need to get created. So I'm not forgiving anybody. I would say however it is not evidence that these two people who did the alleged crime were white supremacists. I don't think that's evidence. And if they were white supremacists, which I haven't seen any evidence of that, that doesn't seem to be the motive for this. Because there was no part of it where they would have said, you know, there's a black guy jogging and we saw this black guy in the video and we think this black guy has robbed our neighborhood several times. Do you think they would not have tried to stop the white guy? I mean that's the assumption, right? That if everything was different, now everything was the same except the young man had been a white guy, do we assume that these two people with the guns would not have tried to stop him if they had recognized him on the video? Or I thought they saw him. I don't know that he was actually on the video.

So there's no evidence of a racial motive, and there's plenty of evidence that it wasn't. So of course on Twitter that makes them white supremacists. And it was LeBron James says that African Americans are quote literally hunted every day every time they go outside. Would somebody get with LeBron James and teach him what the word literally means? Because I mean I could be wrong. Fact-check me on this. If we have some African-American viewers on Periscope, would you say it's literally true that you're hunted every day every time you go outside? Are you hunted? Feels extreme. I mean I get the point, and I certainly think that if I were African-American I might be arguing it's the same way they are, you know, because a lot of these arguments are about power and safety and you know it's not really about the specific situation. You know people are trying to generalize a specific situation to get some political gain. If I were African-American and I thought, you know, I think I'd like to improve my situation, I might use it this way. You know if I thought well it's not exactly in evidence but I can spin it this way and maybe something good comes out of this.

The weirdest part of the story that the simulation has served up is that the people who did the shooting suspected this young man of robbery and his last name is Arbery. What are the odds that somebody whose last name is Arbery would be accused of robbery? I don't know. I suppose anything's possible. Okay, but I like to think it's the simulation working on code reuse even though that's probably not what's going on.

So Lindsey Graham was saying that the Steele dossier just completely lays bare... I'm sorry, he said that the Steele dossier was discredited before Rosenstein even said to investigate Carter Page. And with that now documented, so we don't have to wonder about who said what or you know when it was said. And Lindsey Graham says basically it's just plain that now that there was a plot to get rid of the president. I don't even know how to process this. Are you having the same mental problem that I am? Which is apparently, you know, law enforcement and the FBI did actually try to remove a legally elected president with inappropriate means. How is that not just blowing our mind?

And the only thing we're talking about now, part of it is the coronavirus of course, and part of it is it took so long to get here that we got sort of exhausted by the story. So I think we got exhausted by the story before we found out how bad it was. And now we can't generate the outrage that you know you would get if it was the second week of the story. Imagine finding out one month into the story about the Russia collusion. Just fantasize with me. Imagine in one month you had found out everything it took us two years or whatever to find out. We'd be calling for the execution of Comey and some of the others, wouldn't we? I mean actually the execution. Would we not? Because what is the crime for trying to overthrow the country? Or I don't even know. Is that treason? It's treason if you're helping your enemies. But suppose you're just doing it for your own purposes. What exactly is the penalty for that? You know there might be penalties for not doing your job right and the details of you know maybe you violated somebody's rights and stuff. So there could be some legal recourse of the details. But what about the big picture? Is there no big picture where an actual coup was attempted? But it's not treason exactly, is it?

Alexa, define treason. As the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign. Oh, okay. Yeah, treason. I was thinking that treason was more helping an enemy. But according to that definition it just has to do with trying to overthrow your own government. So did they try to overthrow their own government? I think so.

If you found out, let me ask this just hypothetically. If you found out that this was treason and that it could be demonstrated, I don't know what the actual penalty in this country is for that. Would you favor the death penalty for the people involved? So that would be Comey, Rosenstein, I don't know, McCabe. So make the assumption that the legal system does its thing and let's say they found that they did in fact try to overthrow the government. Let's say that that was demonstrated in a cour

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t of law. Is that a life sentence? Thirty years? Execution? Capital offense? I don't know. Because I can't think of a bigger problem. You know what would be more of a crime than that? Would a terrorist act be more of a crime than that? I don't know. It's a pretty big crime. Feels like the biggest crime I've ever seen. Maybe that's not actually violent. So I just put that out there. Hey, if there'…

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