Back to episode — Episode 2514 CWSA 06/23/24
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iden will probably give you, the fact that you've seen both of them at work. You have a full four-year interview essentially for each of them and Trump can simply say here's what Biden gives you, here's what I give you. There's no contest. I agree with that with the caveat that nobody can really advise Trump. So he still is the one who's going to decide and a lot of it will be spontaneous. I don'…
← Previous segment →he's losing 14 points among Hispanics, 43 points among black voters. I don't, I'll just give you the big line. I think these details are misleading, but he's basically saying that every category from Hispanics to blacks to under 50, student debt holders, even the people on student debt were more for Trump. And something about even losing support from women.
So Bill Maher says, how can they be tied if the polls say he's losing ground in every category? How can he be tied at the top line if we know he's losing every category? Have you heard me say that? That's exactly what I said. I said how do you explain that he looks like he's tied when they're also saying he's losing every category? Well it can't, they can't both be true.
But here's what I posted on this. Bill Maher is so close to understanding the world he lives in. He doesn't yet, but he's so close. I think he might get there. And what he needs to understand is that nothing's true. That the polls that are coming out from respected entities are legitimately faked. They're intentionally, obviously, observably, transparently fake. So there's no real mystery here. There's no mystery at all. The polls are fake.
Now are some of the polls accurate? Probably, because they're not all the same. But no, you should expect tons of fake polls. And he's seen the glitch in the matrix now. You know, he lives in a world where he thinks that at least his news is real. So he's still locked into the world where if you look at the credible news as he would define them. That's not right every single time. And he points out when they're wrong, but that you get a pretty good idea of what's true by ignoring the bad news sources and focusing on the good ones. He hasn't quite caught on that there aren't any good ones. And maybe there never were.
I mean my personal theory is that there never were. Here's why. If the CIA can control the news, they will. There's no doubt about that. But they're not going to try to control it for every little story, you know, not the local stuff. But they're certainly going to control it completely when there's some argument that there's a national interest. That would be their job. Arguably that's what we pay them for to make sure there are no gigantic national interests that we ignore. And so it seems hugely unlikely to me that even during the days we trusted the news and the Cronkite days, everybody said he's so trusted. He's so trusted. My current view is that almost guarantees he was a CIA asset.
Do you know why people said he was trusted? I don't know why. I think it's only because he didn't get caught with fake news and probably the CIA started the idea that he was so trusted. I think it's always been fake. But what I mean by that is that the news about anything important, you know, like why did Nixon get removed from office? I don't think we've ever been told the truth about that. You know, why did Kennedy get killed? You know, probably a lot of things were not being told the truth.
So yes, one, if you believe that your news is real and the other is fake, you end up being confused about why the polls are giving you something that is logically impossible. I'm not confused. I know exactly what's going on. They're fake polls. So as soon as you get past the idea that some of it's true, everything makes sense. It's a good feeling.
Well, you remember Jack Dorsey, founder of old Twitter. He's saying that the issue with the algorithms is not just that they're politically biased, it's that they remove your free will. How do you like that? The algorithms effectively determine how we think. You know, it would be easy to demonstrate that if you were fed a certain algorithm, you'd have a certain point of view. If they fed you a different algorithm, you'd have a different point of view. It's the TikTok effect. It's well understood, right? There's no argument about that.
So if somebody else is deciding what things are going to the front of your brain, and that's what social media is doing with the algorithms. If something that's not your brain decides what you're going to think about the most and even the narrative and the way you're going to think about it, do you have free will? Well you're going to say you do. Well I'll just look at different sources and I won't believe it and I'll know there's more context.
No, there there's somebody in all caps who's imagining I said the opposite of what I've ever said and that he's really mad about my point of view that's the opposite of my point of view. There's somebody yelling in all caps that I believe that our robots will be magic and do everything that humans can do. I just go
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t done saying the opposite of that. That they won't be able to do art. And why? So all caps guy seems pretty drunk. Morning drinker looks like. Anyway, yes. I would go further. Jack Dorsey says we're going to lose free will because the algorithms will effectively program our brains. That's a reasonable frame. But I would go further to the next level of awareness and say that free will is an illus…
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