Episode 1358 Scott Adams： Fake News, Propaganda, Burgers, Bill Gates, Drone Wars and More
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In this episode of the podcast, I talk about why Democrats don t understand motivation, and why Bill Gates might be the only person with a good grasp on how humans are wired. And then I give you a test case of Bill Gates.
Transcript
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You're here so early, well, I guess you don't want to miss a thing.
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I'd like to start by reading a joke I just read on Twitter from Juanita Broderick.
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Now, I don't know if she made this joke up, because it's a little bit too good, but I'll read it to you anyway.
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You should know that she's not much of a fan of Democrats.
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So Juanita says, went into a bookstore to ask if they had Trump's book on illegal immigration.
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Clerk said, get the hell out of here and don't come back.
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Getting back to my major theme that Democrats don't recognize incentives and motivation,
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and that we think we have some kind of a political difference in the world.
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You know, we think that there are some people who are on the left and some people are on the right.
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So I don't think Juanita came up with it because she does not work in that industry, but it's a good joke.
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So anyway, so I've said that Democrats don't recognize motivation.
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So they don't work into their idea of how to build a society.
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The humans have motivation, whereas Republicans consistently get that part right, and that's the big difference.
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But we think it's some kind of weird philosophical difference, or it's a difference in priorities, and there's some of that.
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Mostly it's that Democrats don't know that human motivation is an important variable in building a system.
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But let's take this hypothesis a little bit further.
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There's a new Rasmussen poll saying that 55% of likely voters think politicians' criticisms of police make it more dangerous for them to do their jobs.
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That when politicians criticize the police, it makes it more dangerous for the police?
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What kind of person would believe that something that's happening with what politicians are saying would have an impact on how dangerous it is to be a police officer?
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Well, everyone who understands human motivation thinks that, right?
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Anybody who understands how human beings work would probably think this is true.
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But when you do a poll by conservative versus liberal to see what they think of it, 72% of conservatives agree with the idea that politicians criticizing the police makes it more dangerous for the police.
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But only 25% of liberals think this has an impact on how dangerous it is to be a police officer.
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This is not really a philosophical difference, is it?
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It's just one group thinks that human motivation is a factor, and the other one acts like it just doesn't exist.
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That you can make a decision that's somehow free of how humans are wired.
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That seems to be the basic difference between the left and the right.
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And it gets confused with all these other topics, so we think it's something else.
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In fact, I don't think there's any evidence for that.
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Now, do you think it's only the liberals who are a little bit crazy?
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But almost everything you need to know about humans and how we view the world
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can be understood by the way we look at just this one person, Bill Gates.
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And it is that if you think that Bill Gates is up to no good, or he's in it for the money,
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In other words, there are lots of opinions that I could disagree with,
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but I also acknowledge that the other side has something to the argument.
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but I certainly understand the argument on the other side.
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I happen to prefer the other argument to keep, you know, good border security.
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And then we can open it up as much or little as we need based on economics.
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This is one of those where there really isn't another argument.
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It has nothing to do with how smart you are, how much you know.
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It probably doesn't have anything to do with any of that.
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If you believe that Bill Gates is in it for the money, the power, or the control,
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I'm saying you're not even smart enough to be in the conversation yet.
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And I shouldn't say smart, because I don't think it's necessarily an IQ issue.
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I was looking at the people who were pushing back on my statement that the worst take on
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the internet is that Bill Gates is in it for the money.
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And the first thing you do is you check the background of the people saying it.
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Now, the first thing I note, and I don't know why this is, there are a lot of people who seem
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to be professional trolls who get involved in any kind of a Bill Gates comment online.
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They have zero followers and seven followers and stuff.
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And they immediately pile in to say bad things about Bill Gates.
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Why do apparently organized trolls, why do they care about this?
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But there are other people who don't seem to be trolls.
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And they also say that Bill Gates is clearly in it for the money or the control or to make
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things his way or his ideology, to which I say, let's sort that out a little bit.
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Are there any philanthropists who are not pursuing a philosophy?
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All philanthropists have some kind of philosophy, either helping the poor, maybe they have a
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philosophy that the people who have the most should help the most, but they all have some
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So that doesn't make sense as a criticism, unless the philosophy is bad.
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I heard one critic say they don't like it because Bill Gates is supporting critical race theory,
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Okay, here's me not Googling to find out if Bill Gates supports critical race theory.
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All right, and I'm saying that, I'm saying that with full risk of embarrassment, I haven't
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I have no idea if I checked it, what I would find.
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But I'm pretty confident that I'm not going to find he's in favor of or funding critical
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He might give to somebody who somehow is involved.
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That's so ridiculous, because he's not that guy.
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He's pushing what he thinks is just an obvious greater good.
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Is anybody arguing that people should be saved from malaria if we can do it?
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Does anybody think that it would be a bad idea for Africans to have, you know,
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working sanitation so that they don't use their water supply as their bathroom, which
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I mean, the things that Bill Gates works on are so outrageously non-political, you couldn't
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even get less political than the stuff he does.
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And Soros seems to do more, at least as far as I can tell, more political, philosophical
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He just wants water to be clean, air to be clean, that sort of thing.
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And when you read the article, the arguments against him, I want to read them to you just
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Because it's the sound of them that really is the tickle, the key they hear, that there's
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something going on, some cognitive dissonance or something.
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I just want to look at my own tweet and it won't bore you much longer.
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All right, says Roly Poly, talking about Bill Gates, he's corruptible just like everyone
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That's the entire point, is that you can't corrupt this guy because he doesn't need more
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money and he doesn't even need you to like him.
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Bill Gates never pushes back against criticism.
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So he's definitely not corruptible because what do people like?
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The main thing that troubles me is how soft he is toward the CCP.
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And he said that talking about the CCP cover-up is a distraction.
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Because whether we knew that they had done it or not, it wouldn't make any difference.
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A distraction is that even if you could solve it, it wouldn't make any difference.
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We know that major countries are experimenting with weaponizing stuff like this.
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We know that everybody wants that stuff not to get out of the lab, right?
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Hypothetically, if this had gotten out of their lab, is China thinking, oh, well, let's let
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There's nothing that could come of knowing whether they did it or not because nobody would
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Nobody would act differently if we knew the answer to that.
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We'd push back a little bit, but it wouldn't make any difference.
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Question is, what is it he looks like he's winning?
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So far, his winning looks like humanity losing.
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He's in it to win it, but we don't know what he wants to win.
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He's helping build and design toilets in Africa, solving malaria, trying to work on solving climate
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I don't think it could be more obvious what he's in it for, to help humanity.
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Now, what if helping humanity is good for his ego?
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Do you care if he's only in it for his ego, if all the things he does are good for the
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Now, you might disagree that it's for the greater good, but the point is, I don't think
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I assume he wants the praise, admiration, and sense of accomplishment.
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You've certainly seen me do things for you or for the public that seem to be more for
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But nobody's kidding themselves that I get something out of it, too, right?
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Aren't you all smart enough to know that no matter who you are, if you do something for
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other people, that you also get something out of that?
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What you usually get out of it is you feel good, or it's good for your reputation, or something
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But altruism, in which the person who's the giver feels good about themselves, that definitely
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And I, you know, you can think of it as selfish or think of it as giving, but it ends up being
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Somebody else says that Bill Gates is a puppet.
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How about he's in it for the power because the power is addictive.
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Because the power he seems to want has nothing to do with politics.
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The power he seems to want is the power to fix things.
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Do you want to deny him the power to make things better?
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Or the power to maybe work on the next challenge because he did a good job on the first one?
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And Charlie says, what began with the love of money ends in pride.
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The whole reason that Bill Gates is doing it is for pride?
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You have to look at these comments to realize how whack they are.
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And Bonnie says, I will stop watching if we continue down this road.
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I think that only puts you comments in timeout.
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But if you put your feedback in the form of a threat, I'd rather you just leave.
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We'll talk about cognitive dissonance a little bit more in a minute.
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Let me give you some propaganda alerts, which you call news.
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Remember I told you that Fox News was reporting that Biden's climate plan would make you eat
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And I told you, you don't really need to look into that to know that's not true.
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If you needed to do research to know that it was never true that Biden was going to limit
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you to one hamburger a month, you have to question yourself.
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Did you really need to look, wait for the fact check on that one?
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I mean, seriously, just step away from it for a moment.
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You know, imagine you're just looking down on it like it's a story about other people.
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And somebody said that somebody has a plan to limit you to one hamburger a month.
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And the person who wants to limit you to one hamburger a month is in a party that likes
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Can you make those two things work in your head?
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It's a party, Democrats, who like to get reelected, and they've got a plan to limit you to one hamburger
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If you needed to Google it to find out it wasn't true, seriously, you have to ask yourself, what
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I mean, if you believe that on the first exposure to it, if even for a moment you thought, that
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could be true, you really have to step back and see what's happened to all of us.
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I mean, the fact that that was even a little bit suggestive of something that could have
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been true, you really have to ask yourself what's happened to us all.
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All right, so it turns out that John Roberts on Fox News basically did a correction on that
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By the way, I always make this distinction, and I think it's worth making.
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If you see the news people report something wrong, get fact-checked, and then just say
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directly, this was wrong, I don't have a problem with that at all.
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Now, I get the argument that people hear the rumor, but they don't hear the correction, but
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I would say in this case, the correction was given in exactly the highest form.
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I mean, it was an anchor on the news talking about his own network getting a story wrong.
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That's about as big a correction as you can make, and it was done on air.
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So I'm going to give him the, not just John Roberts, but Fox News, I'll give them the 48
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hours correction, clarification, and I would say that that is acceptable.
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Um, there's another story in the news about, uh, there was, that there's a man named, his
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last name is Brown, and he was killed in North Carolina a week, uh, recently.
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Are you having the same problem I am, that you can't keep all the black people killed by
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Because there's a lot of news about police killing black people.
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Like, way too much, uh, in the sense that it's, you know, it makes your hair catch on
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Now, I'm not saying that, um, all of these stories tell you the story that, you know,
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But the story is that there is a man who is totally not resisting arrest, had his hands
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on his steering wheel, and was in a controlled environment, and that the police just opened
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Again, think of the story that you believed, if some of you did, about being limited to
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And if you stepped away from it, you should have been able to know that was not true from
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Imagine, you know, you weren't biased by any of the news.
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And that story is that a man who is fully controlled and was causing no trouble at all, police opened
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Just, is there even one percent chance that the story, the way it's being reported, is even
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There's something else happening here that would explain why we saw what we saw.
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Could be, you know, maybe they thought he was resisting arrest.
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Maybe they thought he was reaching for something.
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But it's definitely not a story about a black man being executed by police.
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So in case you're wondering, do I only call out the fake news on the left?
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Fox News is reporting that John Kerry shared some secrets, military secrets, with Iran.
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So there was this secret recording of the foreign minister, Zarif, in Iran.
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And in it, he said that he learned from John Kerry, but had not learned even from his own government in Iran,
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that Israel had attacked over 200 sites in Syria that were Iranian-backed sites.
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And so the way Fox News is covering this, and it's just fake news, is that John Kerry gave up military secrets to Iran.
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Now, again, just like the hamburger story, just take a little distance, right?
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Because when you first hear this, you say, my God, we heard it on the video.
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We heard Zarif say that John Kerry gave him military secrets.
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Can anybody tell me in the news why this is obviously fake news?
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Let's see if I have to tell you the answer to this.
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But I don't think the audio was necessarily edited in any bad way.
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Yeah, some of you are getting the right answer now.
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Do you think that Iran's military was unaware that they had been attacked 200 times?
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Do you think that Solomon A., the general who was supporting all of these various Iranian proxies and everything,
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do you think he was unaware that Israel had attacked them 200 times?
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The story is about Zarif being out of the loop.
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The story is not that John Kerry gave him secret military information.
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The story is that Zarif was the last one to find out in his own country.
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Fox News turned this into some kind of a story about John Kerry giving away military secrets.
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There's only evidence that Zarif was so out of the loop,
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he didn't know that his own country or their resources had been attacked 200 times.
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Now, when I point these things out, are any of you saying,
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Where there's some zoning, local zoning commission guy who got fired or quit or something
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for refusing to call a black woman on a Zoom call with other people doctor.
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Even when she clarified that she had a doctoral degree and would like to be called doctor,
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he called her Mrs., whatever her last name was.
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This was the thing that this is the racism story of the day?
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Yet this is the best we could come up with for a national story to show how racist we are.
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If the best story about racism that you can come up with doesn't have any, you're in pretty good shape.
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Because I'm pretty sure the entire news industry is scouring the nation for really good stories of racism.
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A story of somebody who didn't want to call somebody a doctor,
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because they weren't a medical doctor, presumably.
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There was no evidence that that had anything to do with this guy's actions.
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I would have said, well, you know, maybe that's a little bit more of an argument.
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Although I don't think a man would have treated another man the way he treated her.
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I don't know that he would have treated a man differently.
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But it did look like you wouldn't talk to a man that way, I have to say.
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Usually you don't talk to a man that way, even on Zoom.
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If a man talked to another man like that, even on Zoom,
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wouldn't he feel like he'd be causing some trouble?
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Anyway, if that's the worst we have, we're in pretty good shape.
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Bill Gates says no to sharing vaccine formulas with global poor to end pandemic.
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Bill Gates says no to sharing vaccine formulas with global poor to end the pandemic.
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Do you think the story will support this headline?
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That Bill Gates says no to sharing vaccines with poor countries?
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When you read the story, will the story support that headline?
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You don't even need to read this story to know this headline isn't true.
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But if you read the story, what is the real story?
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The real story is that even if you give them the formulas, they don't have the resources to make the vaccine.
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So what he was saying is there's no point in giving them the formulas because they can't use them.
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There's no factory that is up to the standards they would need to produce them well.
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So if you give them the formulas and they produce them in substandard factories, did you come out ahead?
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Because maybe you made a bunch of vaccines that kill people because they might be hurrying and it might be worse for them than if they had unfortunately waited.
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So if you read the story, he has perfectly good reasons that you say, oh, that's a pretty good reason.
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What's the point of giving them the formula if they can't use it?
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Or if they did use it, they would use it in such a speedy way that they couldn't do it right and it would be more dangerous.
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Don't you think that should have been the headline?
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Don't you think the headline should have been, Bill Gates explains that sharing the formula won't help as much as you think.
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Bill Gates explains sharing the formula won't help as much as you think it would.
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Instead, Bill Gates says no to sharing formula with poor people so that they'll die in the freaking pandemic.
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Once you see how much the media is abusing this guy, Bill Gates, it's hard to unsee it.
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Project Veritas has filed a lawsuit against CNN.
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I would not place any bets on them winning this lawsuit, but the fact that they're turning it into a case is in and of itself good constructive pushback.
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I do think the media needs pushback, and I do think people need to sue them when there's something that seems way over the line.
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And I think you could argue this is way over the line.
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That Twitter took Project Veritas off over some video that regarded CNN, CNN Insider saying some bad things about CNN.
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So, and the reporting on CNN about that from Ana Cabrera, that said Twitter took them down for posting other people's private information.
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Well, it turns out that CNN has done exactly the same thing, and Twitter never took them down, which is showing somebody on their own front lawn.
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So we know that Twitter did not apply the standard the same.
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Then also CNN reported, and it was in a tweet, I think, from Ana Cabrera, that the problem was really repeated violations of privacy information, as opposed to, I think, the first reporting was that they had too many inaccuracies or it was false statements or something.
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So now CNN has tried to misreport this at least two times.
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Stelter said that Veritas got taken down from Twitter for violating multiple rules, but Project Veritas is only aware of one rule that they violated, and it was the same one that CNN violated.
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So CNN's reporting on this is just pure fake news, pure fake news.
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I mean, just the purest of fake news, just a fact that's not true.
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And I think the evidence suggests there's no real intention to be accurate from CNN.
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But I don't know if being intentionally inaccurate is enough to cause Project Veritas to win their suit, because it's pretty hard to prove intention.
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Richard Grinnell tweeted that, you know, why is Joe Biden not walking from Marine One to the White House?
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Apparently they had a car service picking him up from the helicopter and taking him to the White House.
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And you remember, of course, that Trump famously would always be walking across that span.
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And so Richard Grinnell is asking, huh, why is Joe Biden not walking that short span that everybody else walks?
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Do you think we could push this question of why Joe Biden was not walking from Marine One until CNN is forced to run another manly video package of Joe Biden?
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Because remember, Project Veritas showed us that one of the technical directors admitted that they were trying to make Biden look manly and vital by showing video of him, you know, riding a bike,
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and video of him in his classic sports car and riding up and down the driveway and the awareness of the aviator glasses and stuff.
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But I wonder if we could make CNN create another manly, manly package for Biden just by talking about this a lot.
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Because if social media ramps up the Richard Grinnell's question of why Joe Biden had to walk,
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won't CNN just have to respond with another propaganda package about him chopping wood or, you know, fighting a grizzly bear?
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I want to see if we can get a video on CNN of Joe Biden wrestling with something, like wrestling with a grizzly bear or something.
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In other news that's scary, the cartels, the Mexican cartels are using their own drones,
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the quadrotor ones, the ones with like four little helicopter rotors.
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And they're strapping a C-4 to it and using them as basically guided missiles.
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So cartels have their own flying bombs now that they're killing each other with.
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What is our technology for identifying the operator of a drone?
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Can somebody help me out here on the technology?
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If, let's say, a state actor knocks down a drone, can we tell who the operator was?
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You might be able to tell who owned it at one time or where it was purchased.
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But could you know who was actually on the controls at the moment the bad thing happened?
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Now, if you can't tell who's at the controls, what does that tell us about the future?
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Well, it at least opens up the possibility that private people will be funding mercenaries
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How long will it be before there's some kind of a mercenary group that says,
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look, you can go onto your computer and you can make our, you know,
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we'll sign you up and you can operate one of our drones and you can bomb the cartels yourself.
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You could be the one who personally takes out the cartel.
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What if you don't need to be operating them, but rather you just put in a little GPS coordinate
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and you send off your drone and it just flies to its designated place and blows up?
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There's nothing that's going to stop that from happening.
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So at the moment, you still need a person and you need to be close enough that the person is controlling it with their controls.
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But the next obvious step is you just put a GPS destination in it, throw it in the air and go have lunch.
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And the thing flies for five miles, finds its destination, comes straight down, boom.
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And I feel as though the cartels have opened up a can of worms here in which superior technological forces will be using this weapon against them fairly soon.
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So I think that the cartels will be destroyed by mercenary drone armies.
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Cartels will be destroyed by mercenary drone stuff.
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I did a search on Google Trends for cognitive dissonance.
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What do you think the trend of how often people are Googling the phrase cognitive dissonance,
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Well, it turns out that the searches for that term have been increasing every year for, I don't know, 10 or 12 years.
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But around the election of Trump and then around the next election, the search terms, you know, it peaked and it's still going up.
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Because a lot of you heard the term, or at least heard it in common use, about politics from me, I think.
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But I saw just, there's a video of Rose McGowan.
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Apparently she just appeared on Fox News and people give her a hard time for it.
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And she said in response to that, that she sparked cognitive dissonance.
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Now, when you hear somebody who's in the entertainment field using a phrase like that, do you say to yourself,
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Cognitive dissonance is a term that most of the world didn't understand 10 years ago.
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But I would say at the moment, a celebrity can use that term in public and expect enough people to understand it that it doesn't sound weird.
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So I think, I told you before that Trump entering politics, back in 2015, I famously said that he was going to change more than politics.
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I said he was going to change how we understand reality itself.
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That Trump would change how you understand reality itself.
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That somebody in the entertainment industry, not a psychologist, not a scientist, can use the term cognitive dissonance properly.
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Used it in exactly the right way, in the right exact context.
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So this morning, somebody accused me of having cognitive dissonance about, I don't know, Bill Gates or something.
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If you think I have cognitive dissonance on a topic, but you hear me say, I think you have it, how can you sort that out?
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If two people, let's say it's not you and it's not me, it's just two people.
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And one says, you have cognitive dissonance, and that's why you're seeing this wrong.
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And the other says, no, you're the one with cognitive dissonance.
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If you are the objective observer, how can you sort it out?
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Well, the one thing you couldn't do is say, well, which one do I agree with?
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Because you might have the cognitive dissonance, too.
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So you can't just say, which one is smarter or which one I agree with.
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And you can't ask them because they both think it's the other one.
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And the way cognitive dissonance works is when you have it, you don't know.
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There's no cognitive dissonance unless there's a trigger.
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It has to be something that you thought was true that is proven to be untrue,
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And so you created a weird world where you patched together some illogic
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that would be a strong indication that the one with the new information
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that violated their prior beliefs probably hasn't.
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Whoever can predict better is likely to be the more accurate worldview.
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and the other has a talent stack in all kinds of
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that the person who can see a topic from more angles
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But if you're going to try to guess from the outside,
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to the person who has at least enough experience.
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So look for the talent stack in the experience.
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but I love that this is going to be part of our context.
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they sure know how to get attention, don't they?
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So good luck to Caitlyn Jenner running as a Republican.
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I have no idea what kind of policies are involved there,
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Maybe it's because they're all taking hydroxychloroquine.
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is it because they're all taking hydroxychloroquine,
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because I couldn't believe there would be enough,
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And things in India went exactly the way we'd expect,
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And so, now we still don't understand China, do we?
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I still don't understand how China is escaping this.
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If you saw that China managed to get coronavirus under control
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which would have seemed impossible in both cases,
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I mean, China getting it under control just seems impossible.
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is now compatible with the data coming out of India,