Back to episode — Episode 1815 Scott Adams - The January 6 Hearings Have Cleared Trump. Will News Report It That Way?
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can add a family member. You have no way to compare it. That's a confusopoly. The way economics was supposed to work is that the free market would drive all the weak competitors out of business and eventually you'd have one strong competitor. But that's not happening. You have lots of competition in insurance and everything. And the way they compete is they confuse the consumer so the consumer ca…
← Previous segment →t? And then they'll describe that the Russians had some memes and that's it. A hundred thousand dollars worth of memes that nobody saw. That's it.
And then they'll say that Russian collusion was — now as batshit crazy as that sounds a standard cognitive dissonance. If you didn't know what cognitive dissonance is that would make no sense to you. You'd think they were lying. Some of them are but mostly they actually believe their own story because the brain can't hold the fact that they were that wrong about something that important. So their brain allows them to be right by just redefining stuff.
Now correct me if I'm wrong but I've decided that if America ever split up — you know we're talking about red state blue state kind of thing. I don't think it's going to happen but if it ever did happen — you would have the Republican party, the country would continue to follow the constitution, right? I think that's a fair prediction. The red part would just say well we'll keep the constitution. This will be the country. The blue part I believe would start a new system. They would focus less on the constitution and more on their primary way of operating which is to change the definition of normal words until they can put you in jail. And that sounds ridiculous doesn't it? That they would have a system of governing of which the operating system, the basic prevailing, the biggest theme that goes across all of it is that they can change the definition of a standard word that's been used forever and that by changing the definition of
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that word they can make you a criminal, right? So they can look at Trump and say all right we saw you do a bunch of things and we're going to change the definition of insurrection to be what you're doing there. That's it. All they did is change the definition of an insurrection to make it look like you fit. Now you say to yourself well that's a one-off. That's a one-off, right? But it isn't. Beca…
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