Episode 347 Scott Adams: Comparing Tweets by AOC and POTUS, Talk About Mattis

Date: 2018-12-23 | Duration: 25:40

Topics

AOC tweet, 42,000 retweets, 170,000 likes in 24 hours Provocative thought, popular, gets your attention Her Twitter game is seriously strong She’s tweeting what people are thinking, she has game POTUS tweet, sets an “elite trap”, Dale explains Has meat for the haters, humor for the lovers Persuasive words that slide through cognitive filters CNN “power ranking” of Democrat Presidential candidates Kamala and Beto are the top two candidates CNN is seeking to make Kamala and Beto the candidates CNN is brainwashing away from top voter preference, Biden Wikileaks claims General Mattis is planning to run for President If true, his resignation is timely, strategic Reportedly, Turkey’s Erdogan on phone, said why are we in Syria? President Trump put the question to Bolton… then decided it’s time for us to leave Syria NOTE: Periscope glitch, video cuts off at begin of Blight Authority

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but pom pom pom pom pom pom pom head snipe how you doing you're in here fast how is everybody this morning it's a wonderful wonderful Sunday at least where I am on your planet who knows and it's time it's time to enjoy coffee with Scott Adams and you may be asking yourself what do you need to enjoy coffee with Scott Adams well you're gonna need some kind of a container a mug a jug a demitasse a flagon a stupid tankard or a Toby those apparently are all synonyms for mug so raise your Stein your glass your copy your container your jug demitasse flagons stupid tankard or Toby and join me for the simultaneous end oh good stuff now yes the Santa hats

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end oh good stuff now yes the Santa hats at rest for the moment I would like to talk about a tale of two tweets one tweet from our president Donald J Trump another tweet from a spunky challenger Alexandria occasi Cortez I will start with her tweet from yesterday it's quite a gem now when I read this tweet the first thing you should say to yourself is hey that idea is not original alright so remember when I read this tweet and I'm going to be talking complementarity I'm going to be complimenting it but you should also be thinking well that's not that really original that's sort of you know everybody's thinking that all right but watch how that doesn't matter here's the tweet from Alexandria Acacio Cortez next time we have a government shutdown

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we have a government shutdown congressional salaries should be furloughed as well it's completely unacceptable that members of Congress can force a government shutdown on partisan lines and then have congressional salaries exempt from that decision have some integrity now that's easy for her to say since she's not actually on the payroll yet but she got 42 thousand retweets on that 42 thousand retweets and 170,000 likes since yesterday now here's what's special about it what's special about this is that it's not that nobody else could have thought of this because I think mark meadows and I think some other people said the same thing but it's provocative it gets your attention and it's almost guaranteed to be popular so from a Twitter game perspective her Twitter game is really strong even if

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Twitter game is really strong even if you say to yourself well that's not that creative and it's not but what it is is exactly what you were thinking so she's writing tweets that match your thoughts that my friends is dangerous and I mean dangerous in the sense that she's powerful so I don't know how to talk about her persuasion game with him you know building her up and I know some of you don't want that to happen but I'm gonna play fair it's the same thing I did when I talked about Trump and his his persuasion ability so that's a good tweet very very well done even if you don't like her politics then we have the master himself president Trump's tweet now AOC is not at the president's level all right she's already tweeting better-than-average politicians by far I mean by far she's better than average

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mean by far she's better than average politicians at her social media game not even but Trump's a level above this uses his own zone so here's his tweet he says if anybody but your favorite President Donald J Trump announced that after decimating Isis in Syria we were going to bring our troops back home happy and healthy that person would be the most popular hero in America with me hit hard instead by the fake news media crazy now there's so much in this and I'll just try to break it down for you so the very first sentence is if anybody but your favorite President Donald J Trump announced that after decimating Isis all right just the first part of the sentence there are two parts of this this first sentence that are provocative and you can't turn away the first part is he starts with if anybody but and he talks about himself so so the first question that comes into your head is

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question that comes into your head is well is that true is it true that if it had been anyone else we would have treated it differently and so you started thinking about that so you haven't even started the tweet and he started with if anybody else and you're like well I question that is it true is it true that anybody else so he's already got you roped in right and then he and it's not the sentences isn't even over he goes but your favorite President Donald J Trump now the fact that he says your favorite president when he knows that you know thirty percent of the country will laugh out loud because they like it you know oh yeah I use my favorite president that's funny it's funny that you would say it and they would get that he means it to be funny in other words he's entertaining the base but part of the entertainment is that the base understands how much the other side hates it so that's what makes it funny because

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so that's what makes it funny because you know the other side is puking in their mouths when they're reading it so that makes it provocative it makes it impossible to ignore and he cuts through he cuts through all the people who would like to ignore this and they had there not been a tsunami in Indonesia this probably would have been one of the top headline stories so but I think he got wiped off the page by the natural disaster in Indonesia so then he goes on he talks about decimating Isis in Syria how many how many of you know that he's using the word wrong - how many of you know without looking it up that to say we decimated Isis is the wrong use of the word how many of you knew that probably about one in ten maybe but this is a yeah that this is a that's weird - you're saying one in ten at exactly the same time that I said it I didn't read

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same time that I said it I didn't read it I actually said one in ten and then I'm seeing all these comments exactly the same time ten percent but yes so but you also know that decimate means 1 in 10 so that's what you're talking about yeah so to decimate means to reduce something by 10 percent but in common usage decimate means to destroy now what's great about this tweet is I don't know if he knew this or didn't know it and it doesn't matter he's speaking the way people speak so he's speaking to the country the way they speak and it's sort of a it's an elite trap because the elite will come in here and say well let me read this to you let me read this to you the way I think CNN would treat this and I'd like to bring in CNN's latest employee his name is Dale now if you don't know it CNN has hired Dale to read

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don't know it CNN has hired Dale to read their tweets but you have to read them with the CNN face and had dude okay so here's the same tweet as read by dale with his new job as CNN well the president has tweeted again while the world is falling apart he's tweeting here it is I can barely stand to read it please if anybody by your favorite president [Music] favorite process my goodness I'd announced after decimating decimating seriously Oh decimating and seem so you have to imagine this being read by his elite enemies with all kinds of attitude all right

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of attitude all right and that if anybody else had done this they would be the most popular hero in America again you have to ask yourself is that drew if anybody else did this would they be the most popular hero in America but what's beautiful about the tweet and what puts them at a different level than AARC is that he's making you talk about the following things even if you're disagreeing you have to deal with the statement that he's your favorite president now that is a good persuasion because the more that you think those two words together favorite president favorite president no he's not my favorite president is very much like telling somebody to not think of an elephant you know you can't not think of an elephant if somebody tells you to do that because you imagine the elephant likewise when you use the word not the

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likewise when you use the word not the brain doesn't register it the way it registers the main words so if you say he's not my favorite president the favor of president part still slips past your filters this was very clever but he also does the same thing with most popular here in America so he's making you think about the phrase most popular hero in America even if you're disagreeing with it so so these little these little persuasive words are kind of filtering in and you're trying to bat them back with not not know he's not my favorite president no he's not the most popular hero in America and and then he gets to call out the fake news media and call them crazy so if you compare a o'seas tweet which was pretty much straight down in the middle but it was a it was a bull's-eye in terms of how the public is

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bull's-eye in terms of how the public is thinking you know how their ordinary person thinks it was a bull's eye very strong but it wasn't as provocative as his was still she got twice as many retweets as he did because it was on people's minds so the president here is in classic form and very entertaining all right now CNN has a feature that they run and update all the time about the the the power the power line up or something it's their take on who is most likely to be the Democratic nominee for president and here's what's interesting if you take a poll of who's leading in the public's mind for Democratic nomination you get Joe Biden now if you're CNN if you're CNN and you're let's face as CNN

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you're CNN and you're let's face as CNN is smarter than the average voter right they're much more much more savvy about everything political CNN knows that Joe Biden cannot win the presidency but he's polling number one on the Democrat side so what do you do if you're to see it in if your CNN and you can't live with the fact that the public is so dumb that they might nominate Joe Biden and you would get an I elated by Trump what are you going to do so they've started this feature called they what do they call it the the some kind of power ranking yes the power ranking and so the power ranking is subjective so I guess there's some CNN experts or analysts who have decided which of the Democratic wannabes are the most likely or most powerful they've just updated it so that the number one is

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number one is Kamala Harris so according to CNN she'd be the most powerful nominee and number two and this is nu beta O'Rourke now what is there about Kamala Harris of beta where or that's different from the other names I'm gonna read on the list right just picture you probably know them you know who beta is and you know who come all is a picture of them in your mind and then that I'm just gonna read the other names and and tell me what's different about the top two so we've got Joe Biden Cory Booker Elizabeth Warren Bernie Sanders Amy Klobuchar sherrod Brown Julian Castro and Kirsten Gillibrand Gillibrand Gillibrand what is it about Kamala Harris and baitoey Roark that's different from all the rest can you tell me oh actually that's a good

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you tell me oh actually that's a good point somebody said they have abnormal names I hadn't thought about that but that's actually a really good point the abnormal names are real a really an advantage but that wasn't even what I was going for
oh are you serious I can't believe that you're not coming up with it right away now it could be because there you go they're pretty so is it is it an accident that when CNN does their power list of the people who when they've looked at all the variables they've decided who's the one who's likely to be the best candidate for president and it turns out the by coincidence by coincidence it's the two sexiest people is that a coincidence now I know this is subjective right and you may be saying to yourself okay not in my mind whatever but if you were to look at you know the average person and how they see this stuff the two sexiest people on

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this stuff the two sexiest people on their entire list they put number one and two because Kamala Harris is an attractive human being and beta or orc is it attractive you've been being I'll try to keep this non sexist because I don't think we need that but can you imagine the package in which Kamala Harris was the presidential candidate and because beta will Roark is sort of coming on stalling but he hasn't won anything yet they stick him in as vice president that would be a hard team to beat and it would be because of the the charisma and the you know thing also the demographic demographic appeal of Kamala Harris but here's my point about this so my point about CNN's power ranking is not whether it's right or wrong my point about it is that CNN is not reporting the news here what is CNN doing that's the opposite of

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what is CNN doing that's the opposite of reporting the news CNN is leading the witness CNN is trying to make these two the top candidates so they're reporting them as if as if there's some kind of I don't know science or or something behind it and and so the the public who is watching CNN is going to see them keep saying oh top two strongest or Kamala Harris and beta O'Rourke yeah I guess I guess that I that CNN is not reporting the news here CNN is literally brainwashing their viewers so that the viewers will make the right choice if you ever thought that we live in anything like a you know a democracy or anything on paper we do you know it's a republic on paper and we've got a constitution and all that whoa

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whoa watch what happens right in front of your eyes as you see the the opinion-makers the few people who make decisions about what the news is they have decided that they are agreed to turn the public away from Biden which they're doing with this and they're going to turn toward the two sexiest candidates now when I say sexiest I mean that not just you know physical you know and how young we are and stuff like that I mean that that will be interesting on camera and it would be good for business CNN is actually trying to shape up a contest that will be good for CNN do you see this I'm not making this up right you can see that CNN is trying to move the public opinion to the thing that would be the best news as well as probably the best threat to the president Bernie Sanders they put it number six he is not sexy and he's not good on TV so I don't think you've ever

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good on TV so I don't think you've ever seen a better example where the news is not the news the news is just brainwashing it's just brainwashing and it's gonna work I guarantee you that watch this watch the opinion polls which have Biden at the top and it's mostly because of name recognition so CNN's going to start chipping away at the name recognition advantage and they're also going to be giving you little suggestions like you know Kamala Harris is the right demographic for 2018 which actually they say in the article so the article describing these people actually say welcome Alerus she has the right the right demographic you know she's woman she's african-american and she also Indian American or something she's whatever it is it's an interesting flavor and they're gonna make it true because that's the matchup that they want all right WikiLeaks here's another topic WikiLeaks had a

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here's another topic WikiLeaks had a little bit yesterday that if it's true changes everything about what you thought about the Syria situation and general mattis did you all see the WikiLeaks tweet probably not so WikiLeaks tweeted and I'm not gonna say this is true yeah I would have to hear from another source but WikiLeaks tweeted that general mattis had been not so secretly talking to people about running for president think about that so according to WikiLeaks general mattis not so secretly meaning it was an open secret in Washington was looking at running for president changes everything doesn't it now I don't know if it's true so I would wait for a confirmation of that I mean that could easily be fake news so we'll wait for that but if general mattis is actually angling to

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general mattis is actually angling to run for president the first thing the first question is as what as a Democrat as a Republican it's not really clear is it I'm not sure what he would run for but secondly if he were planning to run for president what would be the best way to set the table keep in mind that Madison like Trump is a strategist you know he's a he's a chess player you know Madison become mattis because he can't do strategy the very best thing he could do if he were planning to run for president is to decry the president as being incompetent and resigned for principle it would be the very best thing he could do to to establish himself for running for now I'm not going to say that's what's happening yet I'm just gonna keep an eye on but it would completely change your

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on but it would completely change your opinion of how wrong President Trump is about Syria if you thought he was wrong about it because hey Madison a straight shooter well here's the thing if Madison has decided to try to run for president he is not a straight shooter because the moment you decide to run for president or even decide to get serious about it you have moved yourself from great shooter to advocate and The Advocate does not have the obligation to play fair in fact we don't expect it we don't want it we want them to get in the contest and and really mix it up we're all expecting that so the weaselly part of this is that if it turns out that mattis decides to run for president it will reinterpret everything you thought about this serious situation and he's going to look like the biggest weasel in the world so the first taste we have of Madison running for president is going to be

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running for president is going to be fricking weasel which is probably the worst thing that could happen to his brand because his brand is you know straight shooter effective all that so I'm a little I'm a little skeptical whether he really is considering a run for president but as soon as I heard it I thought to myself he'd be a strong candidate except that I think he screwed the pooch on on the way he left the administration now we have a little more information about Trump's decision to withdraw from Syria the reporting on this was that he was on a phone call with the Turkish president president air Dewan and everyone asked President Trump allegedly on this phone call wire why is the United States still in Syria because you know Turkey and the other forces Russia etc we can take care of what's left of Isis

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of what's left of Isis and reportedly and again you can't be sure this happened but this is the reporting reportedly the president turned to John Bolton who was actually on the call at the same time and said John Bolton why is that not true that we've beaten Isis so badly that we're no longer necessary because Turkey has a strong military Russia's there you know Israel's there what will your 2,000 people do to make much of a difference and apparently Trump put that question to Bolton and Bolton couldn't answer the question why we're still necessary for fighting Isis since they're so beaten so don't know if that's true but it would be interesting that the president was talking to Turkey because that suggests that maybe the question of the Kurds came up that's not been reported but I would be surprised if the Kurds are not accommodated to

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if the Kurds are not accommodated to keep them safe one way or the other and now I would like to present to you one of my ideas for the blight Authority so the blight Authority if you if you have not heard about this I'm working with Bill Polti who has created what he calls these these blight Authority organizations they're nonprofits that essentially he gets guess wealthy donors to donate money he works with the cities to find homes in the urban areas that are condemned or need to be bulldozed and it turns out there are tens of thousands of them and if you bulldoze them you reduce the crime and you give you you create a situation where maybe something new could be built so talking about what