Joel Pollak
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And when you show people evidence that it wasn't true, they didn't react.
They didn't change their minds.
They were at best placed into a kind of cognitive dissonance.
where they would try to justify the opposite of what they were feeling or experiencing.
But that's how we function, two movies and one screen.
And it's just interesting to see the reactions afterward.
There wasn't two movies, one screen effect in the sense that you had Democrats with their talking points coming on and saying, this was a terrible speech.
It was awful.
He said, Gavin Newsom said it was boring.
Now, that was probably the dumbest comment because I think even Democrats understood it wasn't boring.
I mean, it was long.
He could have said that was long.
Right.
The joke there is it's long.
I felt I'll tell you what I think about the speech, but I fell asleep.
You know, whatever.
I mean, there are other you could have done something funny with that.
The longest State of the Union ever.
But.
That's not where he went.