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Now how many of these examples are there? How many examples are there? Some people say no, really. So here's what I think. I think the Democrats or the Republicans who voted for the bill must have been satisfied that it was clean enough, right? I believe that your information about it being a dirty bill with pork in it turned out to be not as true as you think. I think maybe that wasn't quite accurate information. I think that there was some stuff that wasn't maybe on point but still good for veterans and health care. I feel like that's what was happening. Something like that. But that's speculation.

The fact is it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if both the Democrats and Republicans voted for it. That's good enough for me for now. Have I read it? Would it make a difference if I read it? Would it make a difference? No. Keep in mind that Scott doesn't do research. You're correct.

You know one of the things that I try to do for you is to take your point of view in some situations and this is one of them. In other words as a consumer of the news I'm also criticizing the news sources because I haven't seen the news source that told me what's happening. Have you? Have you seen a right-leaning or left-leaning news source that accurately told you what was in the bill? I haven't even seen one try. I've read all the headlines every day left and right. I make sure I look left and right. I've not seen anybody even say what was in the bill.

So you know I feel like that's the most important thing to call out is that we're not told what's in the bill. And I believe there should be a law that says you should have those bills labeled so the public can understand them. But anyway I'm going to congratulate Jon Stewart because I think he was on the side of good and he got what he wanted and the veterans got what they wanted. And maybe it's the golden age. Maybe it is.

Well so yesterday I think it was I asked this provocative question. What is wrong with Stephen King? How is it that he can write all these best-selling books and yet when he tweets he looks like a, now it could be the problem's on my end. I can't rule that out. So one of the possibilities is it's just me. But I know a lot of you see it too. And if you have the same cognitive dissonance or confirmation bias I do, well maybe you see it the same way.

But to me it looked like there was a huge disconnect between the way he tweets and the quality of the commercial products he's creating. Now I don't have this feeling about everybody who disagrees with me. Right, just taking the prior point, if Jon Stewart disagreed with me on something, I don't know if he does, but if he did I would say well there's a smart person with a smart background saying things that I disagree with but it's not because he's dumb or drunk or something. Right, like you never say to yourself huh, Jon Stewart must be drunk today. At least it always sounds smart even if you disagree with it.

But Stephen King's different. He doesn't sound smart when he disagrees with me. It sounds like there's something wrong. And so I asked Joshua Lisec for an opinion and I retweeted his thread in which he goes into some detail. And I would recommend it to you on the following basis. You could make an entire college class around Joshua Lisec's tweet thread. There's so much in there. There's so much technique put into the thread that you should read it for the technique even more than I think the topic. The topic is really interesting but the technique he puts into it is just a lesson.

And what you're seeing in particular from Joshua, I like to call this out whenever I see it, is somebody who has intentionally built a talent stack. Which is a set of talents that work well together. So he's a ghostwriter for a number of people. So the first thing he gets for free is he ghostwrites for people who are on opposite sides of things. So he actually has the experience of writing arguments that are opposite of each other. Do you know what that does for your brain? Good stuff, right?

If all you did is say I'm going to be a ghostwriter for people on the political left or the political right you would talk yourself into their point of view by writing it over and over. That's scientifically demonstrated in studies by the way. If somebody is asked to just write down an opinion, physically write it, that is not their own opinion, they can actually talk themselves into the opposite of their opinion just by the process of writing down the other opinion. It's a thing.

Now you could argue that like most studies they're not reproducible but I choose to believe that's probably true because it agrees with everything I know about brains. But Joshua takes business on both sides and so he gets to see both sides of pretty big topics. That's a talent.

He's also demonstrated probably the best marketing I've ever seen on Twitter. I've never seen anybody market better on Twitter. Case in point the very thread I'm talking about gets you all hooked on the topic but then he embeds a little advertisement later down in the thread when you can easily accept it because he's created enough value for you. That when you get to something that's clearly a little promotional bit you're like ah, okay, I actually am interested in that because everything else was so good. Oh good to know that he's got a product too.

And then of course he's learned persuasion, hypnosis. I think you can see reciprocity built in. That's a persuasion technique. So for example he mentioned something good about me in the thread. What's that going to do? Well first of all it's going to make