Back to episode — Episode 2291 Scott Adams - CWSA 11/13/23, Reframing The News So You Can Use It
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rself a new congressperson. So I guess I love the justice. And just, I don't know, every part of that story I like. It's just it's kind of classically wonderfully American. So I guess that's what I like about it. The Wall Street Journal has this big article about black voters moving a little bit more toward Trump. But just hold this in your mind. It's the Wall Street Journal, okay? Hold that in y…
← Previous segment →lse on Earth. We all know that. Now there's a special case where if I ask you is there milk in the refrigerator and you looked and there was one container and you look and it's empty and then you look really carefully in the rest of the refrigerator and there's no other milk, yes, in that very weird specific case you can know there's no milk in the refrigerator. But you know that's a very special case. But an election with 50 different states and however many precincts, hundreds, thousands, I don't even know, who could possibly know that all of the code of all the election machines, every person who could have done something didn't? It's not knowable. And everybody knows that. But you will get Democrats to act like they don't know it. That's cognitive dissonance. So the pretending you don't understand the point is that now if instead of addressing this, the moment you say, okay, that's cognitive dissonance, they say — and you've heard it, you've all heard it — the courts found nothing wrong with the election. That's exactly the same point. The courts don't check everything. And the people who took things to the court also can't check everything. So what the court saw was this tiny little sliver of a grain of sand on the beach. That's all they saw. So if they saw one grain of sand on the beach, can they conclude anything about all beaches in the world? Probably not.
So you will find out that after you point out that somebody's in cognitive dissonance for believing they know something doesn't exist because they didn't look for it very well, they will get angry. And then what do they do? First they get angry. What's the next thing that happens? They change the subject. But but but Trump did something else bad. Fine people hoax. But but but he said drink bleach. The drinking bleach. And it will always go that way. Or it will turn into name calling. I've experienced this. Well, I guess you get your news from QAnon. And I'll say this has nothing to
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do with QAnon. And also I was debunking QAnon. Yeah yeah yeah, but you get all your news from Fox News. To which I say no I don't. I consciously and publicly look at all the news sources left and right and I criticize them all. Yeah but Trump said that a guy with a disability in his arm, he mocked him in public. No he didn't. You look at the compilation clips that the right never sees where he's b…
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