Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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and you would think that they would be smart enough not to write stuff down, right? Wouldn't they be smart enough not to write down the things that are going to get them in jail or whatever? But I have to think that Obama was never that dumb. You know, my impression of Obama, you can love him or hate him for his policies or whatever, I don't care. But I don't know that anybody has questioned his i…

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. More likely degraded because I think we'd know if he was dead. But we wouldn't necessarily know if he were in a coma.

Here is my evidence in case you didn't hear before. Just prior to the video being shown, the president was acting like he definitely knew what the situation was and he was wishing Kim well. But then right after that Kim is chipper walking around visiting the fertilizer plant. Did that happen? Did that happen? And then the president just immediately said oh it's great to see, you know, happy he's doing well. I don't know. So either the president had bad information or he had correct information and he knows this video is fake but he's trying to help them get away with it because maybe it's just better for everybody for the short term.

Of course videos can be faked. To me it looked like a video that was spliced together from maybe a prior trip or something. And then the still photograph just looked photoshopped to me. Now experts have looked at the photo that I say clearly looks photoshopped and people who know way more than I do about that stuff don't see it. And a lot of people are convinced the video is true because they see it with their own eyes. But we're not in a world where videos can be faked? Wait, we are in a world where videos can be faked.

So here's my further prediction. It's going to be a long time before you see Kim in public again. Now I don't know what his normal pattern is in terms of how long he would normally go before he's seen in public again. But here's my prediction. The length of time that he has not been seen in public will reach a new high coming up. In other words, if you don't see him just pop up again in a month, those are fake videos. Six months from now if you've seen no new videos of Kim, those were fake videos. If in one mont

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h he pops up and he's looking fine, then I'm going to revise and I'll say oh wow I guess I was fooled. Those were probably real videos. I mean they could have still been faked but more likely they'd be real. If a month from now he's up and walking around and it's obvious it's a current video, maybe he's shaking hands with somebody we know is over there. You know if it's current and it's in a month…

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