Episode 1296 Scott Adams - Democrats Fall for Massive Disinformation Campaign From Their Own Side

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Well, it seems that the recall effort for Governor Newsom here in California looks like it's either going to be successful or it's very close. They have more than enough signatures, but some of them will be challenged. So we don't know if it's quite enough, but it's looking like there's going to be another governor.

Howard Kurtz made an interesting observation yesterday. I think he says it's no accident that now that Trump is off the stage, we don't have much to talk about in terms of federal leadership, right? Because Biden is sort of hiding. Kamala Harris doesn't say much. So we need to talk about politics and we need to make enemies and villains out of people. Otherwise why bother talking about it? And so by default the state governors are coming under fire in a way that we've never seen before. We've never seen so much pressure on three different governors. Well, if you count Texas. So California, Texas, and New York are getting a lot of national attention. And I think Howard Kurtz is on to something here. It's just there was a void and it got filled. We got filled with whatever was the next thing to talk about. So it was the states.

The important part here is to understand that the things in the new

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s are not the things that are important. They're the things that fill up the time. They're the things that fill voids. So when you're watching the news, you're not watching some kind of top priorities or anything like that. Often they are, but that's not the purpose of the news, to show you the top priorities. All right, here's a question for you. It's a persuasion quiz. I'm going to ask you who…

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"It's no accident that now that Trump is off the stage, we don't have much to talk about in terms of federal leadership. Biden is sort of hiding. Kamala Harris doesn't say much. So we need to talk about politics and we need to make enemies and villains out of people. Otherwise why bother talking about it? And so by default the state governors are coming under fire in a way that we've never seen before."

With no dramatic national villain like Trump and federal leaders staying quiet, media and politics shift to targeting state governors as new enemies, because the conversation requires conflict to stay interesting.

"It's just there was a void and it got filled. We got filled with whatever was the next thing to talk about. So it was the states."

When a major figure exits the spotlight, public attention and media coverage automatically fill the void with the next available targets—in this case, state governors.