Back to episode — Episode 267 Scott Adams - Saudi Excuses, #JobsNotMobs, Voter Turnout
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mp and I was counting on my presumed allies of Saudi Arabia to give me some cover so that to make it easy to not punish them too hard, you know, give me some kind of explanation that is at least a little bit plausible. It should be something that at least one side believes. Something that either the Democrats might believe or maybe even just the Republicans would be inclined to believe. But don't…
← Previous segment →e. I've been noticing that. I'm wondering — so this is a hypothesis. You see that look when people are either trying to — well here's where you see that look. The wide-eyed look. It's the Cory Booker look. The Adam Schiff look. The Ocasio-Cortez look. You know if you see the photos of the pro-Clinton people screaming at the sky they often have the big googly eyes. And it looks like it means something because you don't see that on the right, do you? At least not right now.
And what it makes me wonder is I wonder if people are hallucinating when it happens or are they trying to get you to think that what they're saying makes sense. You know if you're trying to get somebody to believe you and you don't and you know your story is not believable I think something happens with your eyes. It's like I want you to believe my story. Yeah let me tell you the story. It's really dangerous and it's important and I'm totally telling you the truth. Look at my eyes. My eyes are open so much. I'm totally telling you the truth. I'm not looking shifty at all. My eyes are so open so much.
Now I don't think people have any kind of a conscious process about that but it seems like it's one of those two things is going on and I'm not sure which one. It's either they're trying to artificially convey an impression of the reality that even they don't believe or they're actually hallucinating. It looks a little — and when I say hallucinating I don't mean they're completely disconnected from their physical reality. I mean if you see for example Cory Booker with the wide-eyed thing and they don't do it all the time. It just seems like in some cases their eyes get really wide. It feels like in that moment he's sort of imagining. He's sort of hallucinating a world in which let's say Trump is Hitler or some ridiculous thing. And he's trying to get you to believe it at the same time he's imagining it. Maybe it's a combination. Maybe the wide eyes means you're imagining something that doesn't exis
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t and you're trying to convince someone else it's true. It could be that combination. Somebody says Adderall could be. But I swear it's not my imagination, right? That at the moment that look, that wide-eyed look seems to be exclusively on the left. And I don't know if it's because Democrats have wide eyes. I don't think it's that. I think it's because they've been triggered into the Trump deran…
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