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f Stephen Miller hadn't done the work for you, would you have known that that wasn't real news, that it was just propaganda from China? Would you have known? I don't know if I would have known that without, you know, a little boost by somebody who knew more than I do. Stephen Miller. So that's pretty scary, isn't it? How easily pure propaganda can be reformatted as news. You wouldn't know the diff…
← Previous segment →bought the Way of the Weasel book, one of my books, for his dad. I have to tell you though, I hate to ruin your gift. That is my worst book. No lie. That's my worst book. Now if you like it that'd be great. Now let me tell you why it's my worst book. It's not because the writing was subpar, not because it was less funny. It's because the theme of the book is that everybody is a weasel. And it turns out that people will really buy books if you say my boss is an idiot but I'm pretty smart. People will buy the hell out of that book because it makes them feel good. Like I'm smarter than my boss. I'll take that framework and I'll apply that. I'll buy that. I'll give this as a gift. I'm so much smarter than my boss.
But as soon as you say, well your boss is a weasel, yeah we all know that, but if you're a bit of a weasel yourself, you know, if you're being honest, we're all a little weaselly sometimes. So that was the theme that I thought I could make a book out of it. Turns out that people don't want to buy a book that says they're weasels. Which is funny because it's so obvious after the fact. Somehow I went all the way through the publishing process because I think it was at the height of my publishing power at that point because my books had been doing well. But I wish my publisher had talked me out of that one because in retrospect it's just such a mistake.
But like I said, the writing and the jokes are just as good as anything. If you want to give him the best book I've ever read or ever written, I would give him How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, or Win Bigly, or Loserthink. Those would be the three for Father's Day. So if anybody's going to do a Father's Day gift those would be the three books that would work for your father.
All right, you all know the Yanny and Laurel thing, right? You know there's the audio illusion. Some people hear Yanny, some people hear Laurel. Well there's a new one that is just mind-boggling because I didn't count them but I think there are nine different things you can hear just by looking at the word in print while you're listening to it. And I could hear, I think, five of the nine clear as day as long as I was looking at the words that said that it said they would say exactly that. And now go down the list and a whole different sentence, I could hear it perfectly. And then there'd be one that just didn't change anything. Like I could hear it at all. But five out of nine completely different sentences I can hear clear as day when I'm prompted for it. And they're different. The link would be on my Twitter feed. So just go to Scott Adams Says and I tweeted it today so you'll see it in the top, I don't know, top 20 tweets. You'll find it pretty quickly. So you have to look at that. It's mind-blowing. It really is.
Joel Pollak pointed out that Juneteenth as a holiday, which we're getting under a Democrat administration, turns out that Trump had suggested making that a holiday. It was part of his proposed Platinum Plan for Black Americans. You know he had a larger set of plans and part of the plans were making Juneteenth a national holiday. So once again Joe Biden, as Joel pointed out, Joe Biden is following the lead of Trump. And how many times is this going to happen? The list is starting to grow, right?
So there are two things that seem to be happening. Either Biden does pretty much what Trump did and everybody says it's a good idea, or he goes the other direction such as in the border and everybody says it's a disaster. He's really trapped, doesn't he? And remember I predicted this, that Biden would end up doing, or whoever was the next president no matter who won the last election, whenever Trump is done people are going to be copying him. His worst critics are going to copy him because it works. There's just a whole bunch of stuff that Trump does that is the right decision and it works.
So I said it before and every time we get a new piece of information like this I say it again. Trump's administration, whether it ends up being two or the initial four years, is going to look like one of the best administrations of all time. But it's going to take a while for people to realize that.
Did you hear that Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, pretty enormous site online, it has a big impact, he got, he's back on now. He's been reinstated. But he was suspended by Twitter. Now a lot of people get suspended by Twitter so that alone is not a big story, right? But h
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ere's the big story. He doesn't know why. Doesn't know why. He's guessing it's some kind of a mean tweet he did about dropping his nuts on somebody's head. But I feel like I've said much worse than that. Have you ever seen my Twitter feed? I don't think I'm always polite. But it could be that as soo
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