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Back to episode — Episode 528 Scott Adams - Manufactured Word-News, China Trade, Russia, Iran

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ed it. And then what happens next when people realize that, oh it is kind of obvious that she didn't mean this literally? What do people do? Do they say, "Oh God I took that literally. You got me. I completely thought she meant that literally. But now that she's explained it was not literal and now Scott that you've explained that you took it that way the whole time and we'll see it in context. Y…

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she said. But it's very easy for the news to turn this into she has a good feeling about the Holocaust. She didn't say that. She said the opposite of that. She called it a tragedy etc. She just said that it was a time when the Palestinians and the Jews had a productive relationship and that gives her a calming feeling about the potential for a future working together because there was a time when we worked together. We meaning there were two groups. Now so that turned into news. This is what I call the word news where somebody just says something in an inartful way and then somebody says well that sounded to me a little like you were saying something terrible so let's pretend we think that's what you said and act as though you really meant it when obviously you didn't mean that. Obviously she didn't mean that.

All right so I'll put this in the context of if you watched how people squirmed and struggled and went into cognitive dissonance when the fine people hoax was revealed to them you can see much of the same thing in reverse when people find out that AOC never meant that the world is going to be destroyed in 12 years. The obvious interpretation is that we have to get really serious within 12 years according to her or there will be massive consequences which you could argue is true or not but at least that's the correct interpretation.

All right here's news that makes me laugh. Schumer, Chuck Schumer said he was telling Pompeo who's gonna meet with Putin I guess. He said quote, "During your meeting with Vladimir Putin it is critical that you warn him that any action to interfere in our elections will be met with an immediate and robust response." To which I say are we to believe according to Chuck Schumer that the government of the United States has not yet told Putin to stay out of our elections or else something bad

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will happen? Are we to believe that that message has not yet ever been delivered? What now? I don't know that it has been delivered. I wasn't in the room. I haven't listened to any private conversations between Russians and the United States. But nothing would surprise me more than to find out that against all common sense, against all logic, against everything you know to be smart, that somehow t…

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