Scott Adams' BlogTrump’s Language Skills Analyzed
Here’s a great video about Trump’s language skills and persuasion. I love the approach and the analysis. But I point it out for your ongoing education about cognitive dissonance and how to spot it.
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Ranking the Best Political Pundits of 2015
As regular readers know, 100% of my political predictions for 2015 were correct, thanks to the Master Persuader filter. For example, I predicted…
1. Trump would gain popularity and win the nomination, not fizzle as every other pundit predicted. (I predicted it in August, based on his skill set. So far, so good.)
2. The Jeb Bush “low energy” kill shot would end Bush. (First to predict it.)
3. The Fiorina top in her poll numbers (after she paired her own image with a dead baby)
4. The Carson top in his poll numbers (after Trump did his famous belt-buckle speech)
5. The Clinton top in her poll numbers (after Trump noted how many women her policies have allegedly killed)
6. Trump’s “nice guy” move that involved going into a crowd to personally help a wounded warrior with the Veteran’s system.
7. You will start to see Freudian slips in the media calling Trump “President Trump.” And so we have.
8. My 3D predictions – no matter how accurate – will be ignored by the standard 2D media. Check!
9. [Update] My prediction months ago that Trump’s persuasion skills would set off a swarm of competing (and wrong) explanations for why Trump is defying expectations. This is a classic “tell” for cognitive dissonance on a mass scale, which is what we are seeing. That is the fingerprint of a Master Persuader. Here’s the latest explanation, for Trump’s success – that he’s a narcissist addicted to social media pellets, or something.
By this time of the year you would expect a list of “Best Political Pundits of 2015″ to pop up somewhere. Try a Google search and discover that it doesn’t exist, because if it did, the only name on it would be mine, and that can’t happen in the 2D world. That would be like stock brokers admitting that index funds are a better bet.
As I hinted in a prior post, Trump isn’t just changing politics. He is changing our understanding of reality by brushing aside the illusion that humans use reason to make important decisions. This extends well beyond politics.
To put a size on Trump’s skill level, I believe that as president he could depose a foreign leader with words alone. It would not work in all cases. But his skill set in persuasion is, in my opinion, weapons grade. I have never seen that level of skill. Luckily, he has a history of opposing unnecessary wars. I can’t think of a better way to prevent a war than removing a dictator with words alone.
I remind new readers that I do not endorse Trump or anyone else for president. I’m not smart enough to know who would do the best job. All the candidates look qualified to me, assuming their health holds out.
But I am a certified hypnotist with decades of study in the field of persuasion. My predictions are based on my knowledge of that skillset and the recognition that Trump has mastered those tools. (He says so often when speaking of his negotiating skills and how he “knows psychology.”) In other words, I see that Trump is bringing a flamethrower to a stick fight, but most of you only see a stick in his hand and a lot of random, rude behavior. I can tell you with certainty that none of it is random.
Prediction is easy once you see the flamethrower.
0 CommentsThe Time I Got Promoted to Nobody
According to Paul Waldman at THEWEEK.COM, nobody predicted that Trump would be doing so well at the end of 2015.
0 CommentsHypnotizing You to Have the Best New Year’s Day Ever (Part 1)
Warning: What follows is real hypnosis (without the trance). You should NOT read further unless you would like to have the best orgasms of your life on New Year’s Eve and the following day, with or without a partner. This method will work for both men and women. There will be no “dirty talk” involved, but this is intended for adults only.
Please consider this as my way of saying thank you for reading this blog.
What to Expect: If you take this journey, and continue to read my blog this week, expect to feel almost nothing at first. The impact will intensify as the week progresses. Hypnosis is a cumulative thing. Imagine starting with a small quantity and doubling it every day. The last doubling is the big one.
This plan will only work if you want it to work, and that is true of hypnosis in general. But in this case, I don’t know anyone who objects to having a great day.
As a public service, I will show you my hypnosis techniques as I employ them. Expect to learn a lot.
0 CommentsIs Iowa a Caucus or a Mental Health Problem? (Trump Master Persuader Series)
Soon the media will start to obsess with the Iowa caucuses. They will repeatedly tell us two things:
1. The Iowa Caucuses are a squirrelly little affair that predict nothing.
2. The Iowa Caucuses are important national news.
Iowa presents an interesting strategic decision for Trump. On one hand, he can let someone else win Iowa and it probably won’t have much impact on the final result. Trump could let Iowa go and concentrate on the primary states ahead.
0 CommentsMaster Persuader Scorecard Update - Clinton Top?
On December 13th I used the Master Persuader filter to predict that Clinton had topped in the polls compared to Trump and would start drifting down.
The latest national poll shows Trump and Clinton in a near statistical tie for the general election.
One poll is not credible on its own, but it is consistent with prediction.
So far, the Master Persuader filter has accurately predicted…
0 CommentsThe Master Persuader Filter and Trump’s Schlong
If you are following the U.S. presidential campaign, you know that Donald Trump recently said Hillary Clinton got “schlonged” in her last campaign attempt against Obama. According to the standard 2D analysis on the news, this is the sort of vulgar gaffe that should hurt a candidate.
But you might be wondering if “schlonged” was a deliberate and clever move by a Master Persuader or just another in a long list of Trump vulgarities. Let’s look under the hood and see if the engine is purring or it is full of squirrels.
0 CommentsTarget Practice for Robots
In the long run, the so-called ISIS Caliphate is destined to become a walled-in training facility where the major military powers test their new weapons on live combatants. Wars sometimes have expiration dates, but training is forever. Expect the Caliphate to be a permanent war zone, by design.
0 CommentsA Deeply Unscientific Test of Your Political Bias (Trump Persuasion Series)
The normal view of human beings is that we are mostly rational, but sometimes we get a bit emotional or crazy. My so-called Moist Robot Hypothesis on reality says the reverse, that we are irrational nearly all the time and that we rationalize our decisions after the fact. That view comes from my experience as a trained hypnotist.
I know that most of you don’t completely buy into the Moist Robot Hypothesis, so I devised an unscientific test to rattle your confidence in your own rational processes.
0 CommentsFunniest Pundits
My favorite pundits this election are Diamond and Silk. This tweet had me laughing all morning. It only works because of their comic sensibilities. Look at the perfection of the photo expression and body language. I would love to know how many pictures they took before they got that one.
I don’t think this is luck. These two have skills.
