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uch later. Now I could be wrong pretty easily but that's what it looks like. And I base this on pattern recognition. If you put me in this situation, you said all right you're Jill and you're gonna have to break the news to him and he's not going to like it. I do it on his summer vacation when he has lots of time away from the regular work to process it. I do it when he's away from everybody else…
← Previous segment →nt about her qualifications. You got to hear this clearly. I have no reason to believe she's not a great judge. No indications. I also understand that judges could have bias but still do their job. Do we agree? This is not a comment about her as a judge. Not about her. It's a general statement that if you put anybody in this situation, cognitive scientists, if they were not all frauds and weasels and pieces of shit, would be going public and say look, look this is really a special case.
You've had the most powerful brainwashing forces brainwashing half of the country into believing that he's this massive monster, a racist sexist immigrant and hating person. And then you randomly pick a female black immigrant to be his judge. And the rest of the country is supposed to watch this and say oh that looked fair to me. No problem here.
I absolutely think that you can't remove bias from juries and from judges because we're humans. And I absolutely think that even with those biases you can still get the right result. But that's what the bias is at like normal levels. We're not looking at anything normal. The Trump derangement syndrome is very real. It's been studied. There's no question that it's real.
And when you see the comments of the judge about he's still free after January 6, you cannot imagine that this would look like a fair trial to anybody who's paying attention. And I think that the justice system has an obligation to not only try to give people a fair trial, duh, but to make sure it looks like it. Make sure it looks like it. This doesn't look like it.
And Trump is calling it out because he's the only one with the balls to say the obvious. It's really obvious that this is not looking fair. Now again am I saying that she is not a professional enough to be fair? I'm not saying that at all. I believe that her intentions in all likelihood would be to be as fair as possible. I would assume that. But I don't think that from a scientific basis, from a scientific perspective, you could put any female black immigrant into this specific job with a specific case of Trump. He's the exception. This can't work. This can't work.
And the only reason we've gotten this far is because scientists are cowards. Do you think there's even one cognitive scientist who would back this? Just one anywhere in the world? Do you think there's one cognitive scientist who would say yeah I think this is a situation where as long as it's transparent and judges are taught to be independent so this should be fine? Do you think so? Do you think you could get one actual professional to say that about this?
Now they'd obviously say it about trials in general. In general we do the best we can. But this is not in general. This is a very specific situation that violates every historical precedent. There's never been a president like this who has been the subject of massive media brainwashing. Massive. And you could prove that the brainwashing is even intentional. You could probably find quotes from news executives etc. that would prove that it's not accidental.
Is it an actual brainwashing operation? When you saw the fake laptop story that it was Russian disinformation. When you see that 50 past and current intelligence people signed a letter. Is that ordinary brainwashing? Is that like rank and file? No, that is military grade. That is military grade brainwashing. That's not commercial grade. Commercial grade is advertising. Right now I'm doing commercial grade persuasion but the government does military grade. That's what the laptop persuasion was. That was about the Russia collusion hoax. Was that like commercial grade? No that was military grade. That was absolutely military grade.
How about the fine people hoax? The fine people hoax. Do you think that was just commercial grade? No that was military grade. So you're looking at military grade brainwashing that has clearly affected one segment of the country more than others. I would argue both sides are being brainwashed but in different ways. It's not always the same level of danger depending on the brainwashing.
So for example Trump is brainwashing his team into believing he did better than he did but we just call that politics and we expect that. But Trump does a good job. He actually has people very convinced of his successes which by the way he did have a lot of successes.
All right well this is completely unfair. Trump is 100 right. I agree that he should go as hard as possible at her. In most situations I would say no but in this specific situation of Trump and years of massive military-grade brainwashing, yes he should go right at this as hard as he is. Totally agree.
Did I talk yesterday about Bill Maher? Apparently he knows the fine people hoax was a hoax. So he said it on his Club Random. He actually said that he doesn't like being gaslit and that this was obviously a made-up thing. But even though he knows the story is fake he still seemed to believe, I don't want to read his mind but based on what he said he seemed to indicate that he thought Trump actually said something like that by his defenses. You know that it's sort of taken out of context or something. I don't know.
But he actually didn't say it. Bill is almost there. He thinks he did say it but it was like over interpreted or misinterpreted or something like that. Or no, here's what he said. I'm sorry I'm botching this story. What Maher said was that Trump had so often clarified that he disavowed Nazis that that should be taken as more of the truth than the one thing he said that didn't sound good.
Now that's not really the argument. The real argument is he didn't ever say it and literall
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y he said aggressively, clearly and immediately the opposite of what was reported. That's really different than oh he has said before he disavowed them so you should take that as true. That's the weakest not quite accurate defense. But at the very least, at the least Maher knows he's being gaslit on this topic. That's progress. That's a little bit of progress. Not nearly the entire story was rever…
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