Back to episode — Episode 792 Scott Adams - Impeachment Stains, Some New Reality Filters to Ease Anxiety
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bout the stain on Trump? Well here's the thing. If you get impeached because you did, let's say, what Richard Nixon did, well that's a stain forever. If you get impeached for what Bill Clinton did, it's kind of a mixed bag, isn't it? How many of you think back to the Clinton administration and think, well, let's say if you're a Democrat, how many look back to the Bill Clinton administration and sa…
← Previous segment →really think of too many people as just terrible people. And I think, what kind of fake news are you reading? Like I don't even know where it comes from. What exactly have I done that would qualify me to be a terrible human? I mean not just somebody you disagree with, not somebody who said a stupid thing or a dumb thing. Now some of you whose opinions don't make sense, none of that. But horrible human being, which is the most common thing that people were saying about me yesterday on Twitter at least, the critics.
Now none of that bothers me of course but I'm sort of amused by it because Bernie's supporters are more toxic than I had imagined. You probably saw the Project Veritas thing with one of the Bernie supporters who has just had some things to say, didn't he? You all saw that and probably made you think, ah, these Bernie supporters are an interesting group of people. You know, I'm sure most of them are just, you know, have a preference for him as a politician but there's some bad people in that group. I'm not going to paint the entire group by the bad ones but there's really some rough characters in that group.
Now here's a frame for you that maybe you haven't heard yet. Correct me if I'm wrong. It's possible somebody's said this or maybe lots of people have and I haven't even heard it. Do you remember the old days when IBM had personal computers? They were competing against Apple Computer and Apple came up with this great way to frame the situation, the competition. Now I don't know exactly how true it was but it was a terrific way to frame it and it went like this: that you know there are people who go from IBM PCs — this is back in the day — they would switch out and they become Mac users. It was fairly common. But what Apple realized is that people didn't go back. In other words you didn't see, or at least it was rare — that happens of course but it was ra
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re — for somebody who was a Macintosh user to say, now I've decided to change my mind, I'll become an IBM PC user. But it was very common for somebody to go the other way and just stay there. And that's a really powerful frame. As soon as you hear that you say to yourself, okay, that tells me everything I need to know that it's just a one-way trip. Now let's take that analogy — and again analogie…
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