{"id":89646,"date":"2016-03-10T18:46:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T02:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89646"},"modified":"2016-03-10T18:46:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T02:46:41","slug":"the-best-pundits-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89646","title":{"rendered":"The Best Pundits Of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Adams blogs Dec. 30, 2015<\/a>:<\/p>\n

As regular readers know, 100% of my political predictions for 2015 were correct, thanks to the Master Persuader filter. For example, I predicted\u2026<\/p>\n

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.)<\/p>\n

2. The Jeb Bush \u201clow energy\u201d kill shot would end Bush. (First to predict it.)<\/p>\n

3. The Fiorina top in her poll numbers (after she paired her own image with a dead baby)<\/p>\n

4. The Carson top in his poll numbers (after Trump did his famous belt-buckle speech)<\/p>\n

5. The Clinton top in her poll numbers (after Trump noted how many women her policies have allegedly killed)<\/p>\n

6. Trump\u2019s \u201cnice guy\u201d move that involved going into a crowd to personally help a wounded warrior with the Veteran\u2019s system.<\/p>\n

7. You will start to see Freudian slips in the media calling Trump \u201cPresident Trump.\u201d And so we have.<\/p>\n

8. My 3D predictions \u2013 no matter how accurate \u2013 will be ignored by the standard 2D media. Check! <\/p>\n

9. [Update] My prediction months ago that Trump\u2019s persuasion skills would set off a swarm of competing (and wrong) explanations for why Trump is defying expectations. This is a classic \u201ctell\u201d for cognitive dissonance on a mass scale, which is what we are seeing. That is the fingerprint of a Master Persuader. Here\u2019s the latest explanation, for Trump\u2019s success \u2013 that he\u2019s a narcissist addicted to social media pellets, or something.<\/p>\n

By this time of the year you would expect a list of \u201cBest Political Pundits of 2015\u2033 to pop up somewhere. Try a Google search and discover that it doesn\u2019t exist, because if it did, the only name on it would be mine, and that can\u2019t happen in the 2D world. That would be like stock brokers admitting that index funds are a better bet.<\/p>\n

As I hinted in a prior post, Trump isn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

To put a size on Trump\u2019s 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\u2019t think of a better way to prevent a war than removing a dictator with words alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott Adams blogs Dec. 30, 2015: As regular readers know, 100% of my political predictions for 2015 were correct, thanks to the Master Persuader filter. For example, I predicted\u2026 1. Trump would gain popularity and win the nomination, not fizzle … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89647,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89646\/revisions\/89647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}