Episode 734 Scott Adams: Loserthink on Twitter Today, Shampeachment, Teaching You Magic Trick
Date: 2019-11-22 | Duration: 48:33
Topics
My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Teaching you two magic tricks Preet Bharara’s persuasion slight-of-hand tweet Joe Biden’s loserthink tweet…”FULL STOP” Anti-Trumpers couldn’t name single best impeachment reason CNN’s Stephen Collinson reports Fiona Hill “nailed it” Chris Cuomo calls his Mom, Dana Bash’s difficulty confirming Criminal investigation of FBI person altering FISA support document Elon Musk introduces unbreakable Cyber-Truck window Swalwell’s EXCELLENT reply…asked about going on FOX news AG Barr’s odd comments about Epstein’s suicide My 3 favorite Twitter idiots Clever framing to brainwash public for impeachment A provocative suggestion for boring Yang
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bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum 32 32 32 32 that's not even the trick it gets better but first but first I think we need to start the day out right not randomly started out right it goes like this you know what to do I think you do get ready all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of snifter stein challenge tanker thermos flask canteen Grail goblet vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine the end of the day the simultaneous set go hmm that's
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the simultaneous set go hmm that's magical too so I told you I was gonna teach you a magic trick but I'm gonna teach you two magic tricks this first one is really good for the holidays let's say you've got some young people in your family or just some people who are not that smart and you want to amaze them with your magic skills I'm going to teach you the easiest magic trick and the world you start with a napkin and you crunch it up and this and you put it in your hand and by the way this trick works it works best with children and adults who are not that bright
it goes like this you go to the person just as I'm going to you imagine that that you are looking through the screen just as you are now and you see me say I'm going to make this disappear watch
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I'm going to make this disappear watch it's in my hand and then I'm just gonna shake it I'm gonna shake it until it's gone but don't don't leave side of my hand okay shake it's called how magic all right if you couldn't tell how I did that I feel sorry for you well for these three people who didn't know how I did that let me tell you you take your napkin you fold it up you put it in your hand and you move your hand faster than people can can pay attention and then when you're at the top just have the end of their line of sight you just throw it over their head so all I did was throw it over the over the head of the person watching and saying look now if you do it with something that's heavier than a
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it with something that's heavier than a napkin somebody's gonna hear a hit the ground behind you in those cases you need a partner have a Confederate who just catches the object so you could do it with something you having like a battery you're a coin but you just have somebody standing behind the subject who just catches that when you toss it over their head but that's not the trick I was gonna show you no it's not this is the trick I'm going to show you there are four cards here alright this part is no trick there really just four cards and they're really real cards and you see that I've got them organized with we've got the black kings on one side and then on the other side you've got the Red Queen's and watch this I'm gonna put the I'm going to put the Kings in on the inside where you can see the Queen are on the outside see if you can see that the Queen's on the outside the
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that the Queen's on the outside the Kings are on the inside now watch this the Kings are on the inside black Kings put them together and then I'm just gonna blow on and now the Red Queen's are in the middle and the Kings are on the back how'd that happen let's see it again let's do it in Reverse Queens are in the middle all right putting the Queen's right together Queen Queen right together now I'm gonna blow on them now the Kings are in the middle Wow Wow well there are two tricks to this trick there's a little bit of sleight of hand which is really easy and then there's a cognitive trick which is the reason I'm showing it to you the cognitive trick is that i lured you into thinking that these are black kings and i lured you into thinking that these are
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i lured you into thinking that these are red queens but they're actually more than that there's a Queen of Hearts and then there's a queen of diamonds if I had called our attention to the suit instead of the color you might have known how the trick was done now that's your first hint all right that I misdirected you by calling them kings and queens and saying that they're the the black Kings and the red Queens and that misdirected you from thinking about which suit now watch it again but this time pay attention to which suit is where okay so you've got these guys here and then you've got the Queen's yeah so you see you've got a diamond Queen on this hand all right just just pay attention to that so the diamond Queen is in this hand right there
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now it's the heart so they did more than switch sides they switched they switched from hearts to die beside me from Diamond starts here's how the trick is done okay these really are just North for normal cards all I'm doing is I'm putting them together except when I blow on them I'm actually doing a sleight of hand in which I'm trading which hand is holding which cards so right now this hand is holding this card this to this hand is holding these two and I just switch so now I make my this hand over here holding the cards that are on this side and when I take them apart I do it quickly but I'm doing this get it watch me do it in slow motion black Kings around the middle and now the Red Queen's are in the middle all right so that's your trick gone gone all right I
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that's your trick gone gone all right I wanted to show you that because it was a good little introduced introduction to how your brain can be so easily fooled I studied magic when I was a kid before I studied hypnosis you would be amazed how closely those two skills fit together because indeed indeed indeed damn it my pages are all messed up here indeed indeed a hypnotist is a little bit of a magician and the magician is a little bit of a hypnotist there are actually overlapping skills you wouldn't know that until you studied both of them alright so I'm gonna give you some examples of bad thinking on the Internet there's so many of them today these are really good so you all know Preet Bharara
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he's a big anti-trump ER lawyer one of the lawyers that trump fired when he took office so preach is not a big big fan of the president and he tweets us he says have reporters ask congressional Republicans this simple question do you sincerely believe Donald Trump cares about corruption generally seriously can you give an example not named Biden just one so here's pritu as a lawyer so he's a high-end lawyer so he's trained in persuasion but also trained in the law which one is this is this persuasion or is this like a good legal point well it's not a good legal point but it is good persuasion so if you if you didn't recognize the trick you would think this was a good point
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you would think this was a good point Preet I'm not gonna read his mind but let's just say he's a trained persuader he has a point of view that's you know not ambiguous at all and it's fair to assume there's somebody with that level of trading doing something this irrational he knew what he was doing meaning that it works as a persuasion point but it doesn't pass the logic test here's why he's basically saying why is it that Donald Trump only cares about this one bit of corruption that just coincidentally helps him get reelected re-elected is that a good point no no it's not because first of all it doesn't matter it's completely irrelevant if somebody does the right thing it is not a good argument that they didn't do the right thing and the other cases that's not an argument you can
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cases that's not an argument you can only judge the other thing you're talking about you can't say well why did he do different things in the past I mean there might be an interesting question but it would have no legal validity and I supposed to be some exceptions but in this case it really doesn't matter if he was doing the right thing in this case it does not matter if you think he did the wrong thing in the other cases you can't get blamed for doing the right thing because somebody thinks you did the wrong thing in an entirely different context somewhere else in a different time in place that doesn't make sense but it does raise the question it goes to the question of whether Trump was doing it for personal reasons or was he doing it for the country in other words we voters had an interest I certainly did I wanted to know if there was anything I needed to know about Biden who might be my next president I wanted
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who might be my next president I wanted to know is there any Biden stuff we need to know over in Ukraine now if the answer was no there's not really which is actually the answer I would expect I would expect yeah hunter is a little Shady but there's no reason to think his father was directly involved in any of that so I was expecting let's look into it there's not much there great now we can have a fair election without that hey Horace so here's the thing does it pass the sniff test the Trump is only cared about corruption in this one case so pre puts out the Assumption uncritically that Trump is only caring about corruption in this one case can you think of any other example yes how about Trump talking nonstop about the Clinton Foundation about Trump talking nonstop about how the Democrats
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talking nonstop about how the Democrats screwed Bernie in the election how about Trump talking nonstop about Hillary's server how about Trump talking nonstop about Russia collusion and the FBI being corrupt about Trump sending you no bar to investigate all of this how did the the how did everything from the FISA warrant to the dossier get connected does Trump talk about much else besides corruption and and when Trump was it was reported that he was talking about Ukraine when he was not talking about Biden in general but he was talking about Ukraine did he not say that Ukraine is like massively corrupt independent of the connected the separate question of Biden doing anything bad which I'm not aware of any evidence that he asked Joe Biden madness
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madness and then here's the other the other thing it's a part of this is a failure of imagination problem it's one of the things I talk about in my amazing book loser think in which all of these dumb ways of thinking are catalogue with suggestions for improvement and pretty much everybody who read the book called this out accurately in other words simply reading the book makes you look at this tweet differently than you might have before before anybody that you might have said hey that's a good point why is this the only time he's interested in corruption well it's not he talks about it all the time usually he talks about it in the ways that are also good for him but our system is designed that our leaders can do that our leaders can pursue their job wallet is simultaneously good for their reelection it's actually designed for them to do
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it's actually designed for them to do that if they didn't do that that would be a bigger problem imagine electing people who that who then never tried to get reelected oh that wouldn't be a good situation because they wouldn't be doing what the people wanted the reason you the way you get reelected this by doing what the public wants so of course we want them pursuing their personal political self-interest as long as his public as long as we can see it and Trump apparently wanted a public statement about this investigations in Ukraine he wanted it public transparent I really don't have too many complaints about anything that's transparent because if we're watching we can say was it good for the country too and if it is that's fine doesn't matter if it's good for Trump if it's good for the country that's how the system is designed
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that's how the system is designed here's another loser think so Joe Biden tweets it's clear that Donald Trump has abused the power of the presidency full-stop have I taught you that when people and their statement with full stop it's because they don't have reasons if you had a reason would you provide it have you ever seen anybody who had a really good reason who would leave it out of their argument if you live to be a million you'll never see somebody who has a good reason leave it out of their argument that's what a debate is if you're trying to persuade somebody it's very useful to actually give a reason you know doesn't even have to be a rational one but give a reason when you punctuate your statements as if it's just obvious full stop Trump has abused the power of the presidency full
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abused the power of the presidency full stop or period or end of story they're all the same thing there's this huge glowing tell that you actually don't have reasons if you had reasons you had mentioned them you'd mention them all right there is a really really interesting video that I tweeted you can see it on my Twitter feed and just this morning so it's one of those it's one of the ones stored at the top and I don't know who it was but you can see it in the
the to eat was doing mitt like persons on the street interviews with Trump Trump protesters so as a little group who had signs they were protesting Trump and the interviewer asked them basically what is it specifically what's the main thing that bothers you about Trump can you give me an example of your one greatest
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give me an example of your one greatest complaint about Trump and here's the fun part they couldn't she actually by her questions she revealed that there were a bunch of people who decided to spend their day making signs and protesting to Trump but when she asked him what's your best reason for why he needs to go none of them could come up with anything at all and what I uncovered is that they had been susceptible to the laundry list persuasion now the laundry list is when you don't have any one good reason if you had one good reason you just stick with you one good reason because that's all you need you know the other ones might exist but you don't need them you got that one good reason in Peacham I got this one good reason I don't need Ted look I got this one good one let's let's go with the strongest one and then we're done but if you don't have one
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we're done but if you don't have one good reason you tried the laundry list instead well there was a time you said this the time you thought that the time you wanted to do this but we stopped him there was the time he didn't do this the time II almost in that but then you look at each individual one in the laundry list and they just sort of dissolve the they you know individually they just don't have any power at all you're like that's sort of a nothing and people imagine that all of that nothing adds up to something and then you put the microphone in their face and say alright why are you here what's your one good reason and they go
best reason wow so many of them so many reasons well there's a character and stuff and corruption I think what would be a good example of the corruption well all the reasons so many I can't even where do I begin
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where do I begin Bob well what would you say is the worst reason I'm busy over here hold inside dude don't break me into this now I'm exaggerating what was on that video that was my shift version of it but it wasn't too far off you have to you have to see a bunch of people who have spent their day protesting and can't explain why it's totally eye-opening and by the way it is also my complete experience in life if I go to the biggest anti-trump er I've done it I don't know how many times I've done this now but I've done it so many times and just say what's the one biggest problem they have a tough time they want to go to the laundry list right away alright there's an analyst on who writes a lot for CNN's website Stefon Collinson and I recommend his writing to all of you not for a good
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writing to all of you not for a good reason I always look for him because he writes the funniest anti-trump stuff on a fairly regular basis he's one of the most frequent contributors and it's funny because it's so it's so ridiculous well I actually read it as comedy I'm not joking about that when I read his stuff I'd do it with an eye toward having a good laugh and he never disappoints let me give you an example so I missed much of the testimony of Fiona Hill yesterday I saw a little clips but I didn't feel like I had the the full sense of it and so I said to myself well I've better catch up this morning before I go on periscope so I know what happened so I go to the analysis by Stefan I hope it's Stephan Stephane Collinson I see it had and the headline says this Fiona Hill nails the Democrats case and I thought whoa she
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Democrats case and I thought whoa she nailed the Democrats case it's funny I I didn't see that on Fox News but there must be some good reasons here so I'll I'll dig into the good reasons so here's more of what Stefan Collinson said Fiona Hill the last witness in two weeks of televised impeachment hearings made the case against her old boss President Trump better than Democrats ever have and I thought whoa there's some good stuff coming in this article because the Democrats have made a lot of accusations but apparently this Fiona Hill has wrapped him all up in a tight little package and really made them persuasive I can't wait to see how she did that so I read on the former national security council official meeting Fiona Hill Thursday distilled the fog of shady dealings and competition between Trump appointees and career bureaucrats with a crystal clear condemnation of his rogue
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crystal clear condemnation of his rogue foreign policy operation in Ukraine what she distilled the fog of shady dealings okay but what what specifically well what what exactly did she add to this was it distilling the fog was that her addition to the process was it talking about her crystal clear condemnation I kind of need a little detail on the crystal clear condemnation but obviously those will be R that's just setting us up for the the real evidence that's to come so I shouldn't be too judgmental he's just framing it that she's gonna distill the fog of shady dealings and crystal clear condemnation about his rogue foreign policy okay waiting for the facts then further damage says Hill said she only really began to understand the
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only really began to understand the scandal herself while watching testimony from Trump's ad hoc a messenger to the new government in Keith Gordon Sunland wait what Fiona Hill only understood her own testimony by watching television and watching somebody else's testimony what he's actually writing that she didn't understand what happened until she watched television they watched somebody else talking about it that's her damning case against the president as she watched television with the rest of us I watched television - I didn't see it did you I watched thoughtless testimony I didn't see it but she watched television at the same
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but she watched television at the same time you and I did it go she thought it all came together at that point and then the article goes on it says Hill's comment summed up evidence that build a strong case or here it comes all right I I was spoke too soon because the strong evidence is obviously yet to come and the article so we'll get to the strong evidence so Bill's a strong case that Trump as sunland put it when Hill was watching television she watched Sunland put it in an overheard telephone call so it's based on somebody overhearing a telephone call well we'll talk about that in July the quote talking about Trump that he quote didn't give a about Ukraine but wanted the vulnerable xov estate to cough up political favors Koff up
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cough up political favors Koff up that's not a biased framing COFF up some political favors now what is a favor if not something that doesn't have a quid pro quo so every time I see the critics use the word favor which is what the president used I think is that this a self refuting statement if somebody asks for a political favor it's a favor so sort of different than a quid pro quo anyway I think it was Matt Lewis who pointed out that the president's statement where he directly said to sunland I don't want two quid pro quo and this is an important fact it doesn't change anything but it's important to know it accurately apparently Trump said no quid pro quo I just what you create to do the right thing after after the news had come out
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thing after after the news had come out that there was some quid pro quo questions so when he used the phrase no quid pro quo it's because he had already been blamed of a quid pro quo so that so Trump's a clear statement that he didn't want a quid pro quo quo unfortunately comes after he was already being challenged which means that it doesn't doesn't have the same credibility as if it had been said before if he had said it before anybody to even question it you'd say oh that's as clear as can be no quid pro quo but he said that after he'd been accused which puts it in a different light all right so I'm being fair puts it in a different light but it is also the only thing reported by anybody the key man of Trump's mouth or directly from trub they said anything about his state of mind so it's not as credible as it could be but sealed it's the only thing that is directly from
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the only thing that is directly from Trump and that is counterfactual to the charge that's not the strongest counterfactual I thought it was stronger what I thought it came earlier but that Lewis correctly upgraded that timeline it doesn't change the you know the bottom line as anything but it's good to know because I was definitely fake news in the sense of the way I understood it so I think I faked news to myself without knowing that the dates and stuff did you all see Chris Cuomo's demonstration of a cell phone where he called his mother and then he he wanted to see if Dana Bash could overhear it without holding the phone up to her ear so he calls his mom on air live TV to show that you could easily hear a cell phone conversation without without it being on speakerphone and so he holds it up and Dana Bash is like you
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he holds it up and Dana Bash is like you could tell she can't hear it and then cuomo tries to save it goes oh she probably can't hear me meaning he's saying that his mother doesn't know that he's just asked her to say something so he's like her better mom say something and then apparently she was talking you know at least it's implied that she was talking and you couldn't hear her so Dave and Dana Bash couldn't hear her so that was sort of the if the glove doesn't fit you must have quit situation going on there but what if she had heard what what if you could hear it what would it mean well nothing in my experience every phone call is a little bit different there are definitely phone calls that are louder than other phone calls so whether she'd heard it or not it wouldn't tell you whether Trump's particular phone call was a loud one I don't know so that was just funny didn't
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don't know so that was just funny didn't prove anything and wouldn't have proved anything if it worked so it was a interesting television but wouldn't have proved anything all right
it turns out that a so let's uh wait what what's going on here oh I was just going to change topics well let me wrap up the impeachment I would say if we've if we've heard everything we're gonna hear that's sort of the end of the story there's just not enough there so we're we're kind of I I don't think there's any chance of impeachment I think you could just take that off your assumptions now let's talk about the apparently we're learning now that a former FBI lawyer is under a criminal investigation after allegedly altering a document probably a FISA document related to 2016 surveillance of
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document related to 2016 surveillance of the Trump campaign so do you think Trump will talk about that corruption that we don't know what it means yet we don't know if it's really the FISA document we don't know how we don't know how relevant this is to the Russia or the Russia occlusion hoax but we're going to find out it's so it's certainly tantalizing it's tantalizing but here's the funny part is likely to oh so see you then says that this new news is quote likely to fuel accusations from President Trump and his allies that the FBI committed wrongdoing in its investigation yes if this is true it is quote likely to fuel accusations do you know what else is likely to fuel accusations murder murder if you murder
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accusations murder murder if you murder somebody well you know if you murder somebody there's a very good chance somebody's gonna make it it's gonna fuel an accusation that you're a birder that's how it works if you do bad things that fuels accusations that you did bad things but I'm putting this in my list with the Republicans are going to pounce on this they're gonna seize it they're gonna seize it for their point and they're gonna make political a that's the other one I heard they're gonna make political hay out of this like it's a bad thing the facts of the facts if it's true that this happened and it's relevant to the whole story I don't know if it's relevant yet but if it's true I think Republicans are gonna pounce it and seize it make political hay and they might even it might even fuel their accusations but that doesn't make a broad did you all see the video of Elon Musk introducing the Tesla's
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of Elon Musk introducing the Tesla's hyper trunk so it's a it's more evidence II shouldn't test things for the first time in public so one of the claims of the cyber truck is that you can't dent it and apparently somebody came up with a sledgehammer to test it and it did debt which is pretty impressive there was also a claim that the the glass of the windows was break proof so they brought a guy up with a brick or a rock or something and had him tried to break the window so he throws his heavy object at the window and it breaks it on the first try so poor he lock busk I'm a huge fan of Elon Musk so I I just feel bad about it but it's news it has to be said so I've never seen an example of a technology a technology what do you call it
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technology what do you call it demonstration there went that wrong that's the most wrong that's the most wrong I've ever I've never seen a technology demonstration go now is it important no because I don't think too many people were gonna buy that truck because the windows were shattered proof maybe that would be cool and maybe that's more shatterproof than other windows and that'd be great so I don't think it makes any difference to the sale of the product but man oh glad it wasn't him
[Music] I there was a hilarious interview with sois well also by Chris Cuomo I seen it and it's what Cuomo asked him about going on Fox News and this was Wally Wells response about going on Fox News and I have to say this is one of the best responses from a politician I've ever seen Eric's wawel says they he has to go on
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Eric's wawel says they he has to go on Fox News because it's the only way his parents can see about TV now I'm not mocking Eric's well well that's a really good answer that's a totally good answer because the first thing it does is it it's like self-deprecating in a way that's the only way his parents can see about TV like like that's important so it's very humid so I like that but it also suggests that he's very familiar with conservative ways of thinking because his parents apparently are Fox News viewers so it was actually you know we've all had fun making fun of swallow when he was running and making fun of his alleged passing of gas on TV which didn't really happen but it looked like you did but you got to give him credit this was actually a really clever answer I liked it and then he went on to blame President Trump for not getting any work
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President Trump for not getting any work done because he's always focusing on impeachment I don't think swoll can have a completely good day is this it seems to be odd them at this point so if you're if your party is working on ischium impeachment and then your worst complaint about the president is he spending too much time defending himself against the shipment Pietschmann you don't have a strong case that's almost as bad as saying your window is break-proof or that you could hear the cell phone conversation when it's not up to you here these are just delightful public examples all right I read a partisans opinion I think this wasn't CNN - that the House Democrats strategy was quote nothing short of genius and what he says that the House Democrats strategy is nothing short of genius then he went out to detail the
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genius then he went out to detail the the order of things and the set of rules that they used which were good for their side and I think that was true that the the way chef's ended up was quite clever so I think that would be a fair statement you know saying nothing short of genius is hyperbole but it was very clever but here's the thing it didn't work it didn't work how can it be just short of genius if it didn't work maybe he's not gonna get a beached I mean he's not gonna be removed from office anyway and it's definitely not going to help him in the election it's gonna hurt him I think that's really easy to predict so that's a pretty low bar for genius is if everything everything who fails well that's nothing short of genius I guess you'd have to be full genius before before something actually works dobar said something interesting about
epstein-barr told The Associated Press and I'd never heard this before and I
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and I'd never heard this before and I also don't believe it's true all right so this next thing I'm going to say I think you need to apply a whole bunch of skepticism to it because there's an opposite of what we've heard might be true I'm not saying bill Barr is wrong I don't know I'm just saying that other evidence seems to suggest that what I'm about to say he said isn't true so we have to figure out whose version is true bill bars or what has been reported outside of him and he said that that Epstein's death was suicide and part of the reason he said is because he personally reviewed security footage in the jail that confirmed that no one entered the area where Epstein was housed the night he died what didn't we learn from all the reporting that the cameras were working now is it could it be that there are multiple cameras and just some of them didn't
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cameras and just some of them didn't work is that is that possible but there was some other camera that by itself was sufficient to know that there were no other ways for anybody to get in aren't you skeptical of that show us the video or just show us a still show us one still picture from the video that bars bar saw that we could look at and say oh yeah anybody who's familiar with the jail would have to do this so unfortunately there are plenty of people familiar with that jail guards and inmates and just have somebody who's been there say oh yeah this Canberra view is all you need because there's no other way to get there or maybe it's two camera views whatever it is but would one camera view convince you that nobody got in unless that camera was right on his cell I don't know that that would quite be all the evidence you need now
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quite be all the evidence you need now keep in mind that I'm firmly on the side then it was suicide I might be the only person in the world besides the coroner who did the case who believes in suicide but I'm sticking with it if the the rules that I'm using to stick with it are that the normal explanation is always preferred over the extraordinary one now you have two extraordinary situations one is that he could kill himself with all these coincidences happening in all of just coincidence and then he could break that bone in his neck which you would expect only from murder so it would be an extraordinary if he pulled off such a successful suicide when everybody thought it was going to happen but it would be a little more extraordinary for this big plan of a murder and nobody saw coming and I also wonder could nobody here
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also wonder could nobody here what was happening in Epstein's cell like it wasn't you wasn't yelling like crazy when somebody tried to murder him so I'm still the side of the the least spectacular explanation is that he's really really good at killing himself which isn't too surprising because he was really really good at doing a whole bunch of things that you and I could never do I could never make money the way he made it I could never blackmail people the way he blackmailed them I could never do the crimes that he got away with for so long and get away with it he was a super capable guy just very evil so when a super capable guy kills himself more effectively maybe he just figured out the best way to do it that's not surprising because he's a super capable guy who keeps doing things that other people wouldn't think would be possible versus a clever murder scheme that many people are involved in Beauvoir possible can't rule it out so
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Beauvoir possible can't rule it out so I'm only dealing in statistical likelihoods here and yes I know every single person here disagrees with me that's why it's fun remember you all disagreed with me or mostly you did when I said that the cubed sonic weapon would never be discovered because it wasn't one remember how most of you thought now they're all reporting it's a sonic weapon I'll bet it's a sonic weapon well now so much do you remember what I said that the Vegas shooter was not Isis even after Isis claimed credit for it and I still said it's not Isis do you remember that there were many of you who thought I was right but it was so we'll see I don't mind being the minority on that here are my three favorite kinds of idiots on Twitter I can't tell you how many times I've seen this some form of this you think you're a genius but
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this you think you're a genius but you're really just stupid and then they misspelled the word genius or when people call themselves a genius and they misspelled the word genius how many times have you seen that I've seen that a lot of times that exact thing it's one of my favorites the other one is what I got today I get this almost every day somebody tweets at me and just to tell me that I'm you're relevant why are you tweeting at me if I'm irrelevant that's the opposite of irrelevant irrelevant is the person you don't we dint alright because I talked about the other one they wouldn t say full stop at the end of a sentence that's my other favorite here's here's a little Oh some people asking me why yang is not getting attention and Weis being sort of blocked from better media and I
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sort of blocked from better media and I said he's boring the problem with with the egg is that he says more sensible things which is intellectually interesting and you can see why a lot of people would be interested but he's still boring his pin that he wears says math as others have pointed out adjacent if you're watching you pointed it down math is not sexy most people don't like math if you have to say make a list of things that people don't like math would be pretty near on the top it wouldn't be double love but it'd be near at the top so I suggested that yeah he has to do something more provocative yeah I'll just give you a suggestion he could say I have the solution to climate change its nuclear power plus these carbon scrubbing machines plus other green energy that would get up attention now
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energy that would get up attention now it's also true that it is the solution to climate change he could just say I have the solution to climate change he's already proud nuclear be a little more interesting be more provocative
all right the best brain washing trick that I've seen in a long time is the framing that people are using before this Ukrainians situation I'll read your tweet that somebody tweeted at me to give you an example of it so this was tweeted at me today as you know every person that involved in this meeting the crane thing including both a nice land Volker of an MIT dr. hill Trump appointees at all all agree Trump abused his power by using publicly funded military aid for a personal political favor now is that true did they all agree that that's what was happening well here's what's left out and this is why it's such a clever brainwashing technique here is my response
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technique here is my response I said you fell for the faulty framing and by the way you should use this technique the first thing you should say when somebody frame something in that that way that they're trying to trap you to join their frame is you always always say the frame is ridiculous so I said you fell for a faulty framing I like to say that they fell for it or that they're gullible or that they got brainwashed because that that really sets the tone and then I said it is the president's job to look into exactly the sort of thing meaning for it interference if it isn't getting done at the staff level and it wasn't do you think the president would have personally asked szalinski to look into this if he thought it could happen at the staff level without his involvement of course that the fact that it is also good for him politically meeting Trump is how the system is supposed to work he's supposed to do things that are
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he's supposed to do things that are public this was pretty public good for the country I thought it was good for the country and also good for his reelection that's the system working the way it's supposed to all right I think I had nothing else to say so I'm gonna stop it there yeah going to do some other stuff you have a good weekend I'll talk to you later oh I'm going to be on the Tucker Carlson Monday so look for me Monday uh Tucker Carlson bye for now