Back to episode — Episode 1815 Scott Adams - The January 6 Hearings Have Cleared Trump. Will News Report It That Way?
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gs. I think this is the key to his comeback. And I think that McCarthy not participating in the long run is going to look like one of the smartest political plays of all times. Because imagine if the Republicans had participated, I mean in a meaningful way, not Kinzinger and Cheney. If they had participated it would look like they had to defend themselves. What does it look like when you don't eve…
← Previous segment →ou — and I tweeted this earlier — if you want to see what cognitive dissonance looks like and practice, this is actually — this will sound like a joke but it's not a joke — you should practice identifying cognitive dissonance in those rare situations where you know you can produce it. Sometimes it just pops up in the wild and you don't know there was any trigger so you don't know if that's really cognitive dissonance or it's just somebody acting weird. But if you know you can trigger it then you get to watch the face and then you can recognize the look because there's a look. The best way I could describe it is a person who looks like their eyes have light and there's some intelligence. They will suddenly turn into an NPC for about half a minute.
So let me give you — this won't help if you're listening on Spotify but I'm going to give you my visual representation of somebody being triggered into cognitive dissonance. They'll start like I am. You can see that I have a light, the light of intelligence in my eyes I hope, unless I'm an NPC. But it looks like if you looked in my eyes you'd say oh there's, he's thinking, there's stuff going on there. The moment cognitive dissonance goes in, the eyes change and they get and then things come out of their mouth. They seem disconnected with the light of intelligence that used to be in the eyes. The light of intelligence just clicks off. Yeah and you'll see word salad. You'll see word salad. You'll see anger. You'll see completely irrational arguments that something proves something that doesn't even make sense. And shark eyes. Somebody says they'll have short guys confusion, word salad.
Yeah so the way you can trigger that is to say that the January 6 committee was a big success because it cleared Trump of insurrection charges and opened his path to the White House. Say that to a Democrat and then look at the eyes. Seriously. No there's no joke here. Seriously. I sound like I sounded like a Joe Biden there. No no joke. Yeah all right so try that.
Let's see. The Wall Street Journal did some kind of a weird hit piece on Musk. Here's the story which I think has been completely debunked. Musk says that there's no truth to it and there's evidence that there's no truth to i
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t. But apparently the Wall Street Journal is reporting that one of the founders of Google, Sergey Brin, broke up with his wife because his wife had an affair with Elon Musk. Elon Musk says he's never even been alone with her. Like he's only been in some places with where other people were there a few times. That's it. He doesn't even know her basically except for those few public events. And then…
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