Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 08, 2020


Episode 1180 Scott Adams： Let's Explore the Depths of my Cognitive Dissonance and Congratulate President Elect Biden


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27 minutes

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149.8916

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4,079

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242

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Summary

In this bonus episode of No Coffee, Scott Adams answers the question, "Am I experiencing cognitive dissonance?" Is the election over, or is there something coming that we don't see that we should be worried about?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody. Come on in. It's time for a very special afternoon bonus coffee or no coffee with Scott Adams.
00:00:12.820 And that means you don't need to have a beverage this time. You could just join in without any kind of a beverage.
00:00:19.900 So it's kind of special that way. Well, let me start out by saying congratulations, President-elect Biden.
00:00:28.600 According to the vote, I don't think the vote is the official vote will change too much.
00:00:34.880 But we're going to talk about what might happen that might surprise you. Just maybe.
00:00:41.700 Because I like a good, a good story. And I'm going to give you one. You ready for it?
00:00:49.240 So congratulations to President Biden and Kamala Harris for hard fought battle.
00:00:56.020 Well, according to our system, you won. And I congratulate you for that.
00:01:02.820 But is it over? Oh, is it over? That's what we're going to talk about.
00:01:08.180 Because there might be something coming that you don't see.
00:01:12.860 And you're going to want to stick around for that. Oh, yeah. You are going to want to stick around for that.
00:01:17.820 But the big question is, and I've been seeing people ask this on social media,
00:01:23.920 am I experiencing cognitive dissonance?
00:01:28.240 And I would like to explore that with you, and you can be the judges.
00:01:31.980 Because the nature of cognitive dissonance, if I've told you anything,
00:01:35.560 is that the person who suffers from it is the only person who can't tell that they have it.
00:01:44.380 So the allegation is that I am suffering right now because of the election outcome from cognitive dissonance.
00:01:51.960 And I just won't let go of President Trump's chances.
00:01:55.540 So, you be the jury.
00:01:59.040 I would tell you that there are two ways you could spot this alleged cognitive dissonance in me,
00:02:04.820 and that it would be invisible to me by definition.
00:02:08.780 Because if I could see it in myself, then I wouldn't have it.
00:02:12.920 All right?
00:02:13.620 Number one, you would look for a trigger.
00:02:16.120 The trigger would be something that I had experienced or observed that I knew to be true
00:02:22.960 that violated my sense of myself or my sense of how the world should be.
00:02:29.500 Did that happen?
00:02:31.180 Is there anything that has happened so far that violated my view of reality?
00:02:38.940 The answer is no.
00:02:41.440 Not even close.
00:02:42.320 I thought Trump would win, but was there any time I thought that it was somehow an impossibility
00:02:49.660 that Biden would get more votes one way or another?
00:02:54.540 No.
00:02:55.560 So in my case, there's nothing that I've observed that is different from my mental model.
00:03:01.120 I did think that the polling was terribly wrong.
00:03:06.900 And sure enough, even though the result was slightly different than I thought,
00:03:11.340 the polls were totally wrong.
00:03:15.160 So that was accurate in terms of what I expected.
00:03:19.460 And of course, anybody could win.
00:03:21.340 So I don't believe I have a trigger.
00:03:23.520 People who got triggered by Trump couldn't believe he could possibly get elected in this country.
00:03:30.260 It was too horrible to imagine.
00:03:32.140 But I don't have any feeling like that.
00:03:34.340 Biden is the most sort of ordinary politician in the world.
00:03:37.980 It's not the biggest surprise in the world that the Democrats put up a big fight and that a lot of votes were cast.
00:03:47.840 Now, the other thing is, so I would argue that I do not have a trigger because my worldview has not been violated.
00:03:55.340 But is there evidence that I'm acting irrationally, which would be the other tell?
00:04:02.760 You kind of need both of them.
00:04:04.760 You need there to be a trigger, something that obviously violated somebody's sense of reality.
00:04:10.460 But then also that they're acting irrationally because of it.
00:04:14.440 So I'm going to enter into the irrational part.
00:04:18.080 Are you ready?
00:04:18.540 Now, those of you who have been watching me longer have a little better context for this.
00:04:27.020 You know that I'm doing this for fun.
00:04:30.220 But it could be right.
00:04:32.100 And you know that when I think of the odds of things happening, I don't think in terms of this will happen and this can't happen.
00:04:40.220 I typically think in terms of the odds.
00:04:42.680 I think it's a 90% chance this will happen or a 50% chance.
00:04:48.680 And I'm going to tell you a story of what I think will happen based on the odds.
00:04:56.320 Okay?
00:04:56.960 So what you should be looking for is anywhere where I've estimated the odds in an irrational way.
00:05:03.580 Because if you agree with my estimate of the odds in each of the things I'm about to talk about,
00:05:09.460 you're probably going to be pretty close to my opinion.
00:05:11.400 But if any of my estimates of the odds are just way off and crazy, well, that would suggest maybe I've got a little bit of confirmation bias,
00:05:21.320 a little bit of cognitive dissonance going on, and that sort of thing.
00:05:26.720 Let me say as clearly as possible, it is not my opinion that the only way that Joe Biden could have won is if the vote was faked.
00:05:37.600 That's not the only way he could have won.
00:05:41.420 He could have also won.
00:05:43.800 It's possible by getting more votes.
00:05:46.840 So I would say that if I believe the only way he could win was just this one explanation, that would be a little cognitive dissonancy, right?
00:05:58.160 You know, likewise, when the Democrats said, the only way Trump could have won must have been Russian interference.
00:06:05.820 Well, if you thought it was possible, you might be a rational person.
00:06:10.720 If you thought it was the explanation, that's a little cognitive dissonancy.
00:06:16.560 But if you just thought there were some, you know, chance of it, that would be a little bit different at least.
00:06:20.160 All right, here are the odds of things, according to me.
00:06:26.220 Let's see if you disagree with any of them.
00:06:29.240 Number one, will anomalies be found in the vote?
00:06:33.520 Now, when I say anomalies, I don't mean these little anecdotes of I saw somebody fill out some ballots,
00:06:40.800 or I saw somebody throw something away, or there was something in the trunk of the car of the postal service guy.
00:06:48.380 I'm not talking about the little one-offs, somebody saw something.
00:06:53.360 If you added those all together, they probably don't add up too much.
00:06:57.080 And I'm not talking about even necessarily the stories of the big van that pulls up with all the Biden votes only,
00:07:04.680 because I suspect that you're going to find out that nearly all of those stories are not true.
00:07:09.520 Okay, so do I sound crazy so far when I say that nearly, if not every story that you're hearing in the media about fraud
00:07:21.800 is either completely untrue or smallish?
00:07:27.300 Does that sound crazy?
00:07:30.340 All right, so, but hold on.
00:07:33.120 This gets more interesting, I swear.
00:07:34.940 Now, I would say there's a 100% chance that anomalies will be found.
00:07:41.100 Now, would they be scientifically proven in the long run,
00:07:45.320 or are they things that look like anomalies but have perfectly good answers?
00:07:50.260 It doesn't matter.
00:07:52.660 For the point I'm going to make next,
00:07:55.460 it doesn't matter if the anomalies are alleged and not real
00:08:01.620 or alleged and real.
00:08:04.660 Because the point I'm going to make is that it would be enough for political purposes
00:08:08.700 for the Republicans to say,
00:08:12.020 hey, can we do an audit, let's say a digital audit,
00:08:15.560 of the entire digital database software situation
00:08:20.680 just to feel comfortable that everything went the way it was supposed to go.
00:08:26.260 What are the odds that Republicans will ask for a digital audit?
00:08:31.160 What do you think?
00:08:32.240 I think there's at least a 90% chance,
00:08:34.900 because why wouldn't they?
00:08:36.760 Why wouldn't they?
00:08:38.040 The Democrats asked for it.
00:08:40.160 The Democrats asked, well, not for a digital audit,
00:08:42.380 but Democrats several times tried to reform the voting system,
00:08:46.600 and Republicans said no, I hear,
00:08:49.960 because, and again, this is just an I hear,
00:08:53.740 because they didn't want Trump's election
00:08:55.760 to look like maybe there was something wrong with the voting system.
00:08:59.600 It would make it less credible.
00:09:01.420 But now, that's not the situation.
00:09:04.360 Because the situation is that, at least officially,
00:09:06.900 it looks like Biden has won the presidency.
00:09:10.580 So would the Democrats want to look into the voting system
00:09:15.640 with an audit if their person won?
00:09:19.820 Of course not, right?
00:09:21.340 So you would expect the roles to reverse,
00:09:23.640 because it's politics,
00:09:25.040 and you would expect the Republicans to say,
00:09:27.220 hey, let's audit this system,
00:09:28.940 because it might change the result.
00:09:31.800 At the same time, you would expect Democrats would say,
00:09:35.940 no, no, no, let's not audit that system.
00:09:38.280 We'll maybe do some reforms, but that's for later.
00:09:42.200 Let's not revisit the past.
00:09:44.020 Biden's the president.
00:09:44.940 That's what you'd expect.
00:09:47.260 Now, here's the fun part.
00:09:49.260 Suppose President Trump takes advantage of a gift
00:09:54.000 that the Democrats gave to him that he never asked for.
00:09:59.120 And here's the gift.
00:10:00.880 He is the king of creating an asset out of nothing.
00:10:05.900 In this case, he would just have to recognize
00:10:08.220 that the Democrats accidentally created a gigantic negotiating asset for him
00:10:15.620 that he didn't even try to get on his own.
00:10:18.120 And it goes like this.
00:10:20.440 Democrats believe he might not want to leave peacefully.
00:10:26.220 Right?
00:10:26.860 Now, who created that asset?
00:10:29.620 Because he actually has something to negotiate with now.
00:10:33.160 Trump can say, I will leave peacefully,
00:10:37.240 but you've got to do this one thing for me.
00:10:40.000 Now, I'm not telling you yet what that one thing is,
00:10:44.320 but would you agree that the Democrats have essentially brainwashed themselves
00:10:50.720 into believing it's a real thing that Trump would not leave the White House?
00:10:56.280 Did Trump do that?
00:10:58.800 I mean, he didn't hurt it.
00:11:00.460 He probably contributed to it.
00:11:02.160 But I feel like the Democrats created that asset out of nothing.
00:11:05.760 They created a belief that was a little bit crazy, in my opinion,
00:11:09.880 but they believe it, that he won't leave the White House.
00:11:13.900 Now, what are the odds that President Trump will not recognize
00:11:18.100 that that asset has been created and he can use it now?
00:11:22.380 He's going to recognize it.
00:11:24.720 That's what he does.
00:11:26.280 He recognizes a free asset that's a psychological construct.
00:11:31.160 If he sees it, here's what he could ask for.
00:11:34.420 And tell me if this sounds unreasonable.
00:11:37.520 Hey, I know the Republic really depends on the peaceful transfer of power.
00:11:44.000 As a patriot, I believe in the peaceful transfer of power,
00:11:48.300 and I certainly want that to happen this time.
00:11:50.880 But you know what else the Republic requires
00:11:53.560 to support that peaceful transfer of power?
00:11:56.560 It requires a credible election.
00:11:59.040 And I'm going to ask you just for one thing,
00:12:02.100 an audit of the digital part of the election.
00:12:07.120 That's all.
00:12:07.760 And when that audit comes back and it shows that I lost,
00:12:12.300 or even if it changes a little bit, I'm sure I'll still lose,
00:12:15.900 and then I will proceed with the peaceful transfer of power.
00:12:20.320 Now, is there anybody in the public, I'm talking to you, voters,
00:12:24.240 is there anybody who thinks it's not a good idea to audit a digital system?
00:12:29.380 Is there anybody opposed to that?
00:12:33.060 Democrats raise their hands in unison.
00:12:36.460 Nope, we don't want to audit the system.
00:12:40.180 What's that do?
00:12:42.260 That frees the electoral college electorates
00:12:46.380 to do whatever the hell they want.
00:12:49.360 Because if the Democrats don't agree to an audit of the system,
00:12:55.060 they're basically telling you it's not a credible system.
00:12:59.480 Now, they might have other reasons for it,
00:13:02.300 and some people will believe those other reasons,
00:13:05.320 and they might even be real.
00:13:07.280 They might have totally factual, reasonable reasons
00:13:11.720 why you can't or shouldn't audit the election that just happened.
00:13:16.900 They might.
00:13:18.200 But all it requires is the Republican legislatures to say,
00:13:22.500 wait a minute,
00:13:22.940 you're not going to comply with the most reasonable thing
00:13:26.340 any American could ever ask for?
00:13:29.600 Transparency in an election?
00:13:31.820 Tell me, what is a higher principle?
00:13:37.000 My dog is making strange noises if you hear them.
00:13:39.960 What is a higher principle than transparency in the election?
00:13:44.420 It's the smallest thing I'm asking for.
00:13:47.440 That's all I want.
00:13:48.940 And then you get everything you want.
00:13:50.560 You get a President Biden, a peaceful transfer of power,
00:13:54.500 and my congratulations.
00:13:57.220 So, if the Democrats play hardball and say,
00:14:02.680 we're not going to allow an audit,
00:14:04.540 it probably frees up the electoral college
00:14:08.420 so that those close states could say,
00:14:12.380 you know what?
00:14:12.840 But we're going to have to do what the Constitution was designed to take care of,
00:14:17.980 which is have our smart electors make a decision that could be independent of the official vote
00:14:25.360 because we can't certify that the vote was credible.
00:14:29.380 So, maybe we'll just go 50-50.
00:14:32.860 What would happen if the GOP electors in the electoral college said,
00:14:38.500 in just the ones that are close,
00:14:41.260 they said, look, we honestly can't tell who won in our state
00:14:44.160 because there's a little too much non-transparency.
00:14:48.960 We'll just split it down in the middle.
00:14:51.080 Half for Biden, half for Trump.
00:14:53.660 Where does that end up?
00:14:56.800 Depending on which states, I suppose, it could go either way.
00:15:00.360 Now, let's say instead that the Democrats call his bluff
00:15:04.980 and they say, you know, let's do this audit.
00:15:09.840 If it's the only way to get Republicans on board
00:15:13.020 and we want it, you know, Biden is the unifier.
00:15:16.280 And if you're the unifier and you're Biden and you're a centrist,
00:15:20.180 isn't it a pretty reasonable request?
00:15:22.020 It's a pretty reasonable request.
00:15:24.340 All it would take is for Biden himself to say,
00:15:27.860 you know, I want to get past this.
00:15:30.160 I want my presidency to be as credible and valid as possible.
00:15:34.540 So, yeah, I realize that a politician might say no to this,
00:15:38.840 but I'm just going to be regular Joe.
00:15:41.160 I'm just going to be, I'm going to level with you, no malarkey.
00:15:44.820 If you want to do an audit, go ahead.
00:15:48.480 What would happen?
00:15:49.380 So, suppose the audit starts.
00:15:53.100 Here's where we get into some other odds.
00:15:57.120 And see if you agree or disagree with the odds I'm going to put on this stuff.
00:16:02.480 So if you've done any Googling or you've spent time on YouTube
00:16:07.820 looking at how our election system works,
00:16:10.440 you will be amazed and appalled when you hear how the,
00:16:16.280 at least the digital part of it is done.
00:16:18.600 You will learn that it is done not by our government,
00:16:21.900 but by contracted private companies.
00:16:25.380 Private companies.
00:16:26.580 You will learn that in several cases they are not American companies.
00:16:31.120 What?
00:16:32.080 That's right.
00:16:32.720 Non-American companies are handling important parts of our counting our votes.
00:16:40.380 And I believe at least one of them is in Spain,
00:16:42.420 one of them is in, one of them is a Canadian company, et cetera.
00:16:46.100 Now that by itself, that's, you know,
00:16:49.520 that's not the biggest problem in the world, is it?
00:16:51.700 Because you would expect that there would be transparency.
00:16:55.980 But those companies also have proprietary systems, proprietary software,
00:17:01.480 and so they have never been audited because nobody else can see their stuff.
00:17:05.980 This is my understanding anyway.
00:17:08.020 So let me ask you this.
00:17:10.120 What are the odds that these digital systems that support the vote,
00:17:15.420 what are the odds that they're hackable?
00:17:17.700 We'll talk about whether they have been hacked separately.
00:17:20.400 But just the question of is it possible to hack them
00:17:24.740 such that the vote could be changed in a database or as it's happening
00:17:29.020 without anybody knowing.
00:17:32.520 How many of you think it's impossible?
00:17:35.780 Raise your hands.
00:17:37.360 All right.
00:17:38.460 Let me tell you a little bit about hacking.
00:17:41.700 I'm no expert, but sometimes it helps that you've got a little bit of a skill stack
00:17:46.580 where you've been around it.
00:17:47.920 So I've been around a lot of software development, including my own companies.
00:17:54.340 And one thing I can tell you for sure is that most systems have at least some weakness
00:17:59.900 that could be hacked.
00:18:01.100 That's generally true.
00:18:02.720 And probably these two.
00:18:04.620 But you don't even need to have a digital way to hack it.
00:18:08.680 That's not the way it's done for the big stuff.
00:18:10.940 For the big stuff, such as throwing an election, you bribe an insider or blackmail them.
00:18:18.300 How hard is it to bribe an insider to get a change made in any company?
00:18:23.500 It turns out it's really easy, and there's plenty of evidence that it's happened in other big companies.
00:18:29.040 They just find the person who's in charge of it.
00:18:32.600 Maybe they're earning $200,000 a year.
00:18:35.960 How would they like a million?
00:18:38.460 A lot of people will take a million dollars to flip a bit.
00:18:42.800 So if you say it can't be hacked, that would only be because you don't understand enough about the world.
00:18:49.040 Either the technology could be directly hacked in some cases, even if it's hard.
00:18:55.120 But remember, the people who would be trying to hack it would be governments.
00:19:00.560 We're not talking about a kid in the basement as good as that kid in the basement might be a hackie.
00:19:06.300 We're talking about the best hackers who have ever existed on Earth in each of the major countries.
00:19:14.200 Probably every one of them took a run at it, right?
00:19:16.900 So is it hackable?
00:19:19.680 I'd say the odds of that are 100%.
00:19:21.460 Is there anybody who disagrees with that estimate of the odds that just as a general concept,
00:19:27.360 it is 100% hackable, even if the hack involves bribing an insider to do it, okay?
00:19:33.980 Then the second chance is, what are the odds that somebody did succeed in hacking it?
00:19:42.020 Because that's a separate set of odds.
00:19:43.740 I would say the odds that somebody will eventually hack it, because it is hackable,
00:19:50.620 and the upside gain of hacking it is so gigantic, I mean, it's billions or trillions of dollars,
00:19:59.120 that people would keep hammering at it until they succeeded.
00:20:02.460 So presumably the intelligence services of each of the major countries would try to get an insider here
00:20:09.740 or try to get somebody close to the insiders or try to get their own person on that job or try to hack it.
00:20:16.500 And they would just keep hacking and hacking away.
00:20:18.760 And eventually I would say the odds of somebody hacking it, whoever, could be domestic, could be foreign.
00:20:26.520 But if you wait long enough, the odds are 100%.
00:20:29.440 Because it's hackable, guaranteed.
00:20:34.520 They have the highest incentive in the world to hack it, and they wouldn't stop trying.
00:20:41.680 Nothing would stop them.
00:20:43.160 So eventually they'll get it.
00:20:44.460 So the real question is, has it happened yet?
00:20:47.320 But it kind of comes down to that, doesn't it?
00:20:52.200 That's all it comes down to.
00:20:54.400 Because there's a 100% chance it will happen.
00:20:57.760 We just don't know if it happened yet.
00:21:00.820 So given what I've just explained,
00:21:03.440 do you think that the electoral college electors
00:21:07.940 would feel complete confidence in the system
00:21:11.600 if it were not audited?
00:21:17.060 Given what you just heard,
00:21:19.120 do you think an audit is just pretty much required?
00:21:23.540 I do.
00:21:24.320 Even if it doesn't change this election,
00:21:26.580 don't you think they should plug those holes and audit the heck out of that thing?
00:21:30.020 And even if it has nothing to do with Trump,
00:21:33.880 nothing to do with Biden,
00:21:35.760 what's more important than this?
00:21:38.420 What else are you doing that's important?
00:21:41.300 So here's the weird, strange path that Trump still has.
00:21:49.160 And the summary of it is,
00:21:50.980 if you can create enough doubt,
00:21:53.220 and it doesn't look like that would be hard
00:21:55.120 to create that doubt,
00:21:57.140 you could free the electoral college
00:22:01.140 in a way that's never happened before.
00:22:03.820 Do you remember when Chuck Schumer said,
00:22:06.400 everything's on the table now?
00:22:09.340 Everything's on the table now.
00:22:12.200 Well, this is on the table.
00:22:14.640 If the Republicans decide to fight with the same
00:22:18.640 no-holds-barred Chuck Schumer thing,
00:22:23.300 they can, without violating any laws,
00:22:27.040 the Constitution gives them complete freedom
00:22:29.440 to express as much doubt as they want
00:22:32.600 about the integrity of the election system.
00:22:37.100 So, for those of you just joining,
00:22:39.760 let me frame this a little bit.
00:22:43.080 I'm not that Japanese soldier
00:22:48.120 who's been on the island for 45 years
00:22:50.980 and doesn't know the war is over.
00:22:52.820 I know what the vote was.
00:22:56.140 I know that Biden is going to get more votes
00:22:59.400 in this, you know, the election.
00:23:03.240 So we know that.
00:23:04.520 And I accept that, according to our system,
00:23:07.540 this is the time when it is perfectly appropriate
00:23:12.760 to congratulate the winner
00:23:14.360 and try to, you know, get past any bad feelings.
00:23:17.760 It is nonetheless true
00:23:19.480 that there's still a path for Trump.
00:23:23.320 But I think you can also say,
00:23:25.480 our system did what our system did.
00:23:28.380 We got a result.
00:23:29.980 We can probably live with it if we have to,
00:23:33.220 even if he didn't like it.
00:23:34.480 Somebody says,
00:23:37.780 no way, we don't think Biden even had the popular vote.
00:23:41.840 Well, wouldn't you like it to have an audit?
00:23:46.580 Now, I don't know if a recount gets you what you want.
00:23:50.520 I don't know.
00:23:51.840 But if I were going to do an audit,
00:23:53.640 here's how I would do it.
00:23:55.160 And this is just one example.
00:23:58.060 And somebody who knows more about databases
00:24:01.080 than I do can answer this,
00:24:02.380 is each transaction or change to the database
00:24:07.060 logged in some way?
00:24:08.980 Would it be possible to see the time
00:24:11.300 and the amount in some kind of a log
00:24:14.320 of everything that ever changed in the vote database?
00:24:18.620 Does anybody know?
00:24:20.000 Is that a thing?
00:24:21.180 Because I can imagine it could be a thing.
00:24:22.980 I just don't know if it's, you know,
00:24:24.780 if it's architected in a way we could retrieve that.
00:24:27.900 But let's say it's a thing.
00:24:28.840 Let's say there is a log of every change to the database
00:24:32.480 and it could be audited.
00:24:33.820 Here's what I would look for.
00:24:35.760 I would look for situations in which
00:24:37.720 an exact amount of numbers
00:24:39.760 was subtracted from one column
00:24:42.300 and added to the other column
00:24:44.040 in the same amount at the same time.
00:24:46.320 Because there's a good chance
00:24:49.440 that whoever, if somebody hacked it,
00:24:52.500 there would be a good chance
00:24:53.440 that they would be dumb enough
00:24:54.680 to do the switch simultaneously
00:24:56.820 or maybe they'd have to
00:24:58.260 because it'd be discovered otherwise.
00:25:00.660 And so all you'd have to do
00:25:01.720 is find any times where a big number
00:25:04.640 is exactly the same as, you know,
00:25:07.880 a subtraction and an addition at the same time.
00:25:10.980 Now, I don't even know
00:25:11.980 if there should be subtractions.
00:25:13.300 Maybe if you find any subtractions,
00:25:15.820 that should tell you something too.
00:25:17.620 Now, I'm not suggesting
00:25:18.500 that that's exactly how you would find a problem.
00:25:21.200 I'm suggesting
00:25:21.760 that if you put enough attention into it,
00:25:25.500 the odds of finding something there
00:25:28.040 are pretty good.
00:25:30.120 Now, just so you know, I'm not crazy.
00:25:32.680 And as my final defense
00:25:34.020 for not having cognitive dissonance,
00:25:36.280 is it not completely possible
00:25:38.360 that if it got audited,
00:25:40.460 they would find that the only people
00:25:42.580 who hacked it were Republicans.
00:25:44.720 But they didn't hack it enough.
00:25:47.620 Or, you know,
00:25:48.180 because you can't rule out the possibility
00:25:49.700 that the system was rigged
00:25:52.020 by some Republican
00:25:53.920 who was just a good hacker
00:25:55.200 or Republican-friendly,
00:25:57.720 and they didn't hack it enough.
00:25:59.700 And Biden just legitimately got a lot of votes
00:26:01.900 and it was more than the hack.
00:26:03.700 Can't rule that out.
00:26:05.460 You're right?
00:26:05.700 And if you're not willing
00:26:06.960 to be able to say that
00:26:08.040 as easily as I said it,
00:26:10.180 well, you might be in cognitive dissonance
00:26:12.320 or denial.
00:26:13.400 But don't be in any of those things.
00:26:14.960 The country will be fine.
00:26:16.960 And if you're worried about your taxes,
00:26:19.340 they might go up,
00:26:20.600 but probably not as much
00:26:21.900 as Biden wants to.
00:26:23.460 And here's why.
00:26:25.460 It goes like this.
00:26:26.560 Are you ready?
00:26:28.360 Jake Tapper doesn't want his taxes raised.
00:26:30.600 I use Jake Tapper as my example
00:26:35.320 of a media person
00:26:37.320 who has a high income
00:26:39.000 who I'm guessing doesn't want to pay
00:26:42.600 65 or 70% of his income in taxes.
00:26:47.140 Probably doesn't.
00:26:48.460 So I would think that the messaging on that
00:26:51.320 from all of the rich media people
00:26:54.200 will be a little less supportive
00:26:56.960 of that tax increase
00:26:58.460 than maybe what you thought
00:27:00.200 when it was just a campaign.
00:27:02.500 So maybe your taxes
00:27:03.880 won't go up under Biden
00:27:05.020 as much as, you know,
00:27:07.260 the worst case scenario.
00:27:09.300 All right.
00:27:09.680 That's all for now.
00:27:11.000 And I will talk to you tomorrow.