Back to episode — Episode 2698 CWSA 12/23/24
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. You've seen me interview my friend and expert on memory and cognitive stuff, Carmen Simon, Dr. Carmen Simon, and she teaches that it's the things that are out of context, the things that are surprising that stand out. It's like the blemish on the tablecloth, that's what you remember. So the fact that he's not supposed to talk this way in the office of the presidency or near it is what makes you…
← Previous segment →, make America healthy again, my first instinct was oh that's, you're perverting make America great again. You know just leave that alone. It did so well. You know don't try to like play off it. You know just let that be its own thing. It's just such an iconic thing. But I changed my vote. I changed my vote. MAHA is working. It's a good brand for a way to conceptualize that there's a common sense effort to make the food and our meds healthier. And we've got somebody very powerful working on it with a lot of support. So yeah, make America healthy again. Home run. So I missed that one. So nobody's perfect. I would have bet against that one. I would have bet against it. But the lesson here is that you can't always predict this stuff. Persuasion is a little unpredictable no matter how much experience you have with it. And I would have missed that one. But I love the fact that the people coming in to help didn't miss it and created it. So that's Shanahan and Kennedy. Good job.
So here are the themes: woke is broke, golden age, common sense revolution, the Trump effect already affecting other countries, and make America healthy again. Now he may have said make America great again but you know that had a pushback built into it. You know the people who believe that people who look like them in the past weren't getting a good deal had what I consider actually fairly reasonable response to it because they were like wait a minute what do you mean go back? We made so much progress recently. What does go back and great again, what does that include? So I do understand the skepticism to the MAGA message. But who's going to complain about make America healthy? There's not much you can do with that one.
Anyway, according to some post, narcissistic grandiosity predicts greater involvement in the LGBTQ activism. Now if you're new to my livestream I love the LGBTQ community. Big fan. I think they've done such a great job in taking their, let's say their brand or their reputation in the country from a big problem for them to front of the parade. I mean there, like I often say this, have you ever stayed away from a neighborhood because it was one of those dangerous LGBTQ neighborhoods? No, because there are not. It's one of the most successful communities in America. I'm very impressed by the LGBTQ community. But like any advocacy group, like any demographic group that's trying to improve their situation, they have leaders, they have activists. And the thinking is that activists are driven by these dark ego principles and they've got basically the dark triad personalities. And I definitely think that activists like to get attention. I think that much is true. But is gett
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ing attention always bad? I think it depends why you're doing it. If you're getting attention because you just got some kind of mental syndrome and you're just satisfying your own need and you're making a job for yourself and you're getting famous and people are patting you on the back and so you want to do more of it, it's fine. But then you know also in the news lately is that DEI companies are…
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