Back to episode — Episode 744 Scott Adams - Troll Attacks, Loserthink in the News, Bottom Circle People, Lisa Page
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Well, I don't know if you've noticed, but the trolls on the left have new marching orders, and man, is it frightening. So I spent the last day or so slapping trolls on Twitter. Now, sometimes I just block them and walk away. But when the trolls get new marching orders and they all come in with the same kind of message, it's a little more interesting, and I tend to engage. One of the questions tha…
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So it's probably the most bankrupt, ridiculous, stupid opinion you'll ever see in your life. Because if you don't have a standard for what abhorrent behavior looks like, you can't really measure to it. You can't really manage to it.
So this is a part of a larger thing. So then the other trolls are the laundry list trolls. And a whole bunch of them came down at the same time, and their laundry list looks like this. This one from Glenn Greenwald on Twitter, or maybe, "Scott Adams could have decided not to support a racist, narcissistic con man with no real leadership acumen, clearly pulled into Russia and enamored of dictators." Rob Reiner comes also with the same kind of thing. And Rob Reiner said yesterday, "Every elected Republican knows that this president is guilty of countless impeachable offenses." I would list them, but then I would have to show that there are no impeachable offenses, but they're countless. So many impeachable offenses I couldn't possibly list them all on Twitter.
But they, meaning the Republicans, along with many white evangelicals and white supremacists, have made a pact with Putin. Have the white evangelicals and white supremacists made a pact with Putin? But unlike a pact with the devil, this one can be unsigned. In other words, the Republicans can change their mind. It's not too late.
So when I read this, I say to myself, is this a political opinion or is it a cry for help? In other words, is Rob Reiner signaling a strong political opinion, or is the strong signal that he's got a mental health problem? That's the actual serious question. That's me being completely serious. That's not a political statement. Is this a sign of mental illness?
Let me read it again and just listen to it. Now, imagine that this is a prominent person who knows he'll be noticed by lots of other people who could affect his life and his career. And so he's saying this in public. And I would say you believe that because he's so consistent. I can't read his mind, but he's been so consistent I assume he believes it.
So he thinks that every elected Republican knows that Trump is guilty of countless impeachable offenses. Does that sound like a sane opinion? That every Republican knows the president is guilty of countless impeachable offenses? There's no evidence of that. There's plenty of evidence to the contrary, but there's certainly no evidence of that. Even though the left, there's evidence that Republicans think he's done a lot of impeachable things. But they, along with many white evangelicals and white supremacists, have made a pact with Putin. Really? Is that a sane, mentally stable statement? That white supremacists have made a pact with Putin? What does that even mean? What does that even mean?
I think it's just a mental health problem that's disguising as a political opinion. Is that too strong? Because I'm not trying to exaggerate. You know, my basic philosophy of life is that people come up with their opinions first and then they back into the rationalization. Well, here's my opinion because of my feelings, and now I'm going to torture logic to make it sound like there was some reasoning that went into it. This is the cleanest example of that. Because his opinion appears to be just a mental health problem. And again, I don't mean that as hyperbole.
Now, I'm not a mental health professional, so I'm not saying that he has a mental health problem. I'm making the nuanced distinction. I'm saying that I, as an untrained professional, simply observing him, that he registers with me as having a pretty severe mental problem. That doesn't mean it's true, and I'm certainly not saying I'm qualified to diagnose it. I'm just telling you the way it's received by me. My impression as a non-professional, non-qualified person is that it's a mental disorder of some type that he's backed into some kind of a reason. And you could tell me because the reasons don't make any frickin' sense at all.
I mean, who could possibly think that every elected Republican knows — not just suspects, not just has a few problems with the president — but every elected Republican knows that this president is guilty of countless impeachable offenses? You actually couldn't even count them, there's so many. There's just no way that that's a serious opinion from a person with a stable working intellect. It just doesn't feel like it to me. Now, I can be wrong, and I'm not qualified to diagnose mental illness, bu
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t if I were, I'd be looking here. So look for that. I wonder if they're A/B testing it. But it looks like the new approach is to go after Trump supporters and say, do you like Stephen Miller? Do you like kids in cages? And try to make all Trump supporters feel like they're garbage people. In fact, that's the most common thing I see is that I'm a garbage person because I write and talk about Trump…
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