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Back to episode — Episode 2852 CWSA 05/27/25

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hat easily make the person who is the real subject believe whatever the other people all believe is true. So it's so easy to change a person's perception until they don't see something or they do see something that just isn't there. Now, this is a very repeatable experiment in psychology and you've probably seen it a million times in the real world. So here's my take. For sure, no doubt about it,…

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den's brain is completely broken. He's obviously incompetent." If you were listening to me say it every day, you would be completely immune from the cognitive blindness because you would have at least one person and probably lots more who are telling you the truth. So you wouldn't have that problem. But when you look at the Democrats, they would definitely have that problem of being cognitively blinded by their own team who were lying basically.

Were there other examples where they were cognitively blinded? Yes. What about the fine people hoax? Do you think every single person on the mainstream media, do you think every one of them thought that the fine people hoax was real? No. There were undoubtedly smart, influential people who knew somewhat early on that that wasn't true, but they had an interest in acting like it was true. Now again, take an innocent Democrat and put him in that situation where all these important people are pretending. They're lying, but they're pretending that the fine people hoax was true. Same problem. They would come to believe it was true because all these important, influential people said it was true.

Same with Elon Musk's Nazi salute, which was of course not a Nazi salute. Do you think it was even possible that people with normal brains thought that was a Nazi salute? Well, if you have enough people who are the credible people, the ones you trust, and they all seem to say it was, which was the case. Now, they were all liars, probably the people who, you know, the prominent ones, probably just a bunch of liars who didn't want Trump and Elon to have power. But I'll bet you some large percentage of Democrats who would have been perfectly capable of knowing that certainly wasn't a Nazi salute. I mean, you would have an IQ of 80 and you knew that wasn't really a Nazi salute, but you would have been cognitively blinded by your own side because they kept saying it was. So if everybody you talk to says it was, well, suddenly you start thinking, "No, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it was." Right?

So it wouldn't even be unusual that people were cognitively blinded about Biden's brain. It would be the normal operating system of just how everything works. As long as the people in charge were lying

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in the same way, then the people who weren't powerful and were just sort of on the same team would believe it was true and they would believe it easily even though it was obviously not true. Well, here's one of my favorite stories. Speaking of Jake Tapper, he was on the Scott Galloway podcast and he was talking about his son. I guess he's got a 15-year-old son and he was talking about in the cont…

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