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Sunday Smiles – HotAir

One of my favorite drive-by X post genres is the “bad take.”

Some of the satisfaction comes from schadenfreude — watching an arrogant person get taken down and exposed as a fraud — but some of it comes from the reminder that we should all be less confident in our own opinions. After all, everybody has bad takes sometimes, and it’s good to be reminded that self-confidence is often overrated. 





Admittedly, though, it’s mostly schadenfreude. 

What makes the bad-takes genre so powerful isn’t when it exposes people for making bad predictions, but when it exposes hypocrisy. Bad predictions come from extrapolating current trends and how things work in general to predict how a particular situation will turn out. A single or a few bad predictions only tell you that the world is much more complicated than the simplified model a person is using, which is a trivially true observation. 

Everybody will get it wrong, even if their model is a good heuristic, because heuristics help abstract from chaos and find the general; they can’t eliminate chaos, randomness, and unknown variables. 

Hypocrisy, though, is something else entirely. It’s when people assert an ethical or moral principle as universal and use it as a weapon, even though they don’t actually believe what they are saying. It is a form of lying. 

Most hypocrisy stems from some form of sophistry. You rely on and hijack the ethics of the person to whom you are speaking, associate their vision of “good behavior” with you or your preferred outcome, all without actually believing what you are saying. 





It’s a form of con. The term “con” comes from “confidence,” the chosen word for this type of fraud because it relies on hijacking the victim’s social trust (or often their flaws). Often, when we think of cons, we think of swindlers who tap into the victim’s greed, but the term actually comes from a man who “conned” people by getting them to hand him watches to prove their trust in him. 

People want to be “good,” so you manipulate them into associating good with what you want. 

We’ve seen a lot of this lately when it comes to the faux outrage among politicians like Obama and HRC whining about Trump kicking CNN, MSNOW, and Politico. Obama and Clinton, as well as Biden, chose who could and could not cover them at the White House or the campaign trail; they just banned outlets that Pravda hated and called “propagandists.”

Media folks will whine about being called “fake news” and say it is an assault on the First Amendment, but they do it to others all the time, just labeling information or assertions they dislike as “misinformation.” 

2021. CNN does a segment on how Fox News is not news at all, but instead just propaganda and conspiracy theories.

To support the segment, CNN host pointed to Fox people making the following claims:

▪️Biden was in cognitive decline and probably not even in charge

▪️Pandemic lockdowns caused pain and deaths

▪️Falling sperm count, fertility rates, and open borders are all big problems

CNN on the other hand spent the Biden years telling us that the open border wasn’t a problem at all and that Biden was sharp as ever.

Hey Brianna Keilar, which channel was closer to being real news?





This is a con game. And exposing it is a positive social good. 

And, I admit, watching it happen is fun. 

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AND FINALLY…


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