Back to episode — Episode 792 Scott Adams - Impeachment Stains, Some New Reality Filters to Ease Anxiety
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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 h…
← Previous segment →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 analogies are not for persuasion, they're just to make points. Here's my point. We've been talking about Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders having similar voters and that one of them needs to shrink in order for the other to grow because it's the same pool. You know that neither of them can grow until one of them declines in popularity because the voters are going to go to the other one.
Let me ask you this. After this Elizabeth Warren incident with Bernie, how many Bernie voters could go to Elizabeth Warren after she stabbed their candidate in the back according to them? How many? None. Maybe none. How many of the Warren supporters, let's say she started falling in the polls and they wanted somebody who had similar policies, how many Warren supporters would be psychologically primed and ready and willing to go to Bernie? Maybe all of them. Maybe all of them. Because it's similar policies and who are you going to go to if Elizabeth Warren isn't going to work out? Where are you gonna go? Because Bernie didn't stab Elizabeth Warren or at least it doesn't look like that. I mean some people might think that but I think it's a one-way trip.
So at this point if all of the, let's say the progressives or the socialists, Democratic socialists who want one of those two, the decision's already over. Let me say that again. If you're wondering which way it's going to go — will Bernie's people go to Warren or Warren's people go to Bernie? — that's over. You don't have to wonder anymore. There's only one way it can go at this point. It can only go from Bernie to Warren. The Bernie to Warren path is closed by what Warren did to Bernie. It's closed. So if you're going to predict, that's an easy one. Bernie will rise and Warren will fall because Warren can never get enough of Bernie voters after what she did to him. You know I'm right.
I saw an article that probably needs some more studies to back it up that the birth control pill shrinks a part of the brain in women. Or there might be a
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correlation. It might be a weird correlation but women who have been on birth control pills had one specific part of the brain that shrunk 6 percent on average. It was smaller. So let me correct what I just said. The study did not show that being on the pill shrunk that part of the brain. It only showed that people on the pill had on average a smaller part of that brain. Could be some other reason…
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