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u'd say I want you to tell the people in the other room that this was actually a fun and exciting task. You know, lie to them in other words. Because everybody believed it was boring. But both groups were asked to lie. So the people who were paid twenty dollars to lie lied because they were asked to. And then later when they were asked their opinion about the blocks, it was about the same as it w…
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Now I have told you there's one, you know there are a few little signals you look for. The person who's got the trigger right now. If you've not been triggered, for example when I heard about this study I said to myself oh that's exactly what I expected. You know I would have predicted this exact outcome based on what I know. So there's no trigger for cognitive dissonance in my case because what I expected is exactly what happened. But if what you expect you learn to be completely wrong, that's when cognitive dissonance kicks in. So that's your trigger. Look for somebody who found out that what they believed was totally wrong. Those are the ones who are triggered. But we even disagree about what's right and what's wrong. So even that.
David Frum, do you all know him? Political commentator and writer. And he's a big anti-Trumper. And here's how he describes Biden's speech, the one that people called satanic. All right, so many of you probably said to yourself that Biden speech was the worst thing that ever happened. There's no way you can spin that good. Well interestingly David Frum writing in The Atlantic, which if you don't know The Atlantic is not a serious publication. It's owned by, I believe it's owned by Steve Jobs's widow, right? And it's just a Democrat publication trying to pretend it's not.
But here's what Frum titled his piece. He said Biden laid the trap. Trump walked into it. So Frum's take on this is that Biden is so clever that he was laying a trap with this rally to try to provoke the Trumpists into acting crazy and thus prove that they are crazy. So this was not an old man doddering through a completely failed attempt at communicating. That's what many of you think you saw. No, no. You were mistaken. This was Biden cleverly laying a trap and Trump just walked right into that trap.
He did. But here's the way Frum described this in a tweet. So he tweeted this. He said early in Trump's term an anonymous staffer said something like, quote, Trump's not playing three-dimensional chess. Most of the time we're just trying to stop him from eating the pieces. And then he says that Biden's speech got Trump into swallowing at least a bishop.
Now here's your next hypnosis tip. And I'm not making this up. This is something I specifically learned in hypnosis class. So my hypnosis instructor taught me this and it's one of the most useful things I've ever learned. You won't believe this is true and so you'll have the same experience I did the first time I heard it. Like I don't think that's true. And then you watch for it and every year that goes by you're like oh it might be a little bit true. And then eventually you're like damn it, damn it it's true.
It goes like this. People tell you their sexual preferences in direct words. You just don't notice. It's just that your sexual instrument is such a strong part of your being that your language just naturally wraps around those preferences whether you know it or not. You can't turn it off. So when David Frum, who is a big nemesis of President Trump, writes Biden's speech got Trump into swallowing at least a bishop, my hypnosis instructor would say that is not a coincidental use of terms. That's a man who has fantasies of blowing President Trump.
Now I'm not going to say that that's true because that would require mind reading, right? I'm saying that's what I learned in hypnosis. And that whenever I noticed something like this and I could follow up and find out if it were true, it was true. So all of the times when I could confirm whether the thing I was hearing, I think I heard something very sexual. Anytime I could confirm whether or not it was true it was always true. It was exactly what it looked like.
Now I have no way to confirm this one. I'm just telling you the pattern I've noticed through my life is that it's not a coincidence. Nobody could write you swallow the bishop without feeling there's some kind of sexual connotation there. Really, swallow the bishop? Hypnotist interpretation of this was that is that Da
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vid Frum has sexual, psychosomatic feeling about Trump. Which by the way is probably common. Are there any women watching this who have had sexual dreams about Trump? Go. Any women who have had sexual dreams about Trump? Because for a while that was a thing, you know, maybe before his first election. All right I see one. Yes. My wife. Yes. Most of you know but you see a sprinkling of yes, right? I…
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