What Would We Do Without Pundits?

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I can heartily recommend “Fooled By Randomness” and “The Black Swan” (both non-fiction) also written by Nassim Taleb, who wrote the new book referred to in this link, called “Skin In The Game”. Enjoy!

While talkers are expounding, doers have already taken action. Scott Adams understands Trump; his blog is invaluable due to his insight.
Notice how the President has already made decisions re. 2020 and named his campaign chairman. Trump is a workhorse!

David Frum. At one time I held him in pretty high regard. After he moved to NYC he seems to have been infected with liberal disease.
US conservatives have pretty much dismissed him in the past few years. He’s become a grumpy old man who insists his view of the world is the right one in spite evidence to the contrary.

Yet we elect people like Trudeau and Obama who have no history or demonstrable skill of Doing, only Talking. And with Trudeau, even Talking is a stretch. Too many people have no idea of the difference between Doers and Talkers.

Im a talker and a doer.
the vital difference is the core honesty about oneself, is I bee a yapper or too busy getting it dun right to wax prophetic?
we also have *Takers* but that’s a totally diff discourse.
again, I blame the entrenched edjukashun cystem for perpetuating the structure by indoctrination.

Wonder what MSM outlet will be publishing this article?
And So I Teach!
p.s.
History Buff;
I used to be a doer but the Regulators take the fun out of everything. EVERYTHING!!!

Molyneux is a talker. So is Cernovich. Both make a living from media, I don’t see how they differ much from Shapiro (apart from the opinions themselves).
The reason most people could not guess that Trump would win is that few people can remain objective. Almost nobody. Think about every time you enter a hockey pool or a football pool. How hard is it to pick your team to lose? How often do you do that? If you’re like me, you don’t pick them to lose unless they have no chance in hell. If there is a flicker of hope you pick them to win at least a round or two. It is very hard to be objective, you have to throw your emotions and desires out the window, and that’s not easy to do. If you went to the Trump heartland like rural Ohio or Western Pennsylvania, you would find lots of people who were certain he would win. They were not being objective either! It just shows that there is no special magic in making predictions, there is no doers vs talkers magic.
538.com gave Trump a 30% chance of winning. SO that is 1 in 3, which is not bad. And they are all flaming liberals over there. So it might have been hard for them to put up that 30% number but they did because they at least tried to remain objective, they came up with a formula that was as mathematic as possible and they stuck with it. 99% of the stuff you read in media today is not objective, nor is there any effort to remain objective, nor is there any interest in being objective. As long as that is true, they will be wrong most of the time on everything they report.

Now I understand Brad Wall; just another in a long and uninterrupted line of talkers. No one, at any level of government, at any time, has lost their pension when they tanked the economy.

How did I (me) know that Tump (a complete political buffoon) would defeat HER? Primarily via “feeling”, “listening”, and “reading” of public “sentiment”. Both Left and Right had become disillusioned of the “new normal” shoved down our gullets by Bush, Obama, McCain, Romney … and the ENTIRE political establishment. And those “sentiments” were being freely shared and exchanged on the internet … mostly … unfiltered by pundits, experts, and legacy media. This was a person-to-person election (ha, ha, ha … yeah, and included the Russians). And the primary PERSON doing the talking was Donald Trump. Unfiltered, unvarnished, UN-focus-tested … SHE hid from the discussion. All SHE talked about was Donald Trump. All SHE did was reinforce the stereotypical political hack that SHE was.
I did not find Trump’s election the least bit surprising … despite the useless POLLING results that predicted HER landslide. HER Blue-State firewall … which BURNED HER at the stake.

For the same reasons as stated aboveLANE I predict that Ford will win the Conservative leadership in Ontario, and also the conservatives led by Ford will win the Ontario election.
I put this same prediction in one of the comment sessions in the National Post. It did not stay there for very long. Wrong kind of prediction I guess.

“David Frum. At one time I held him in pretty high regard. After he moved to NYC he seems to have been infected with liberal disease.”
I made the same mistake. I also respected his mother Barbara, who died too young, and still respect sister Linda, but David has gone over to the dark side.

Please ignore the “LANE” in the above post.No idea where that came from unless it was from the captcha.

I remember a news interview thing Barbara did on a reserve about the ghastly deplorable ‘medical’ services.
it consisted of a thread bare ‘clinic’ where a nurse handed out aspirin and bandaged injuries. ie NO licensed MD.
she was bawling her eyes out at the deplorable state of the reserve. it affected me deeply, never saw it before or since. Im talking 50 +/- years ago, long before she passed away.
the lady had compassion and drive. it came out that she would dig and dig and dig and ask embarrassing questions and NO ONE was immune. this was later ascribed to the fact she KNEW she had not long on the planet so wtf, *may as well, what are the gonna do, fire me* thing ???

Scott Adams is a bullshit artist who bases his nonsense on ‘psycholinguistics’ aka pseudo-science. He called a coin-toss and didn’t even get that right (he said Trump would win by a huge margin, he did not). Ultimately, hindsight is not wisdom and ‘predicting’ Trump alone does confirm having any insight. Nate Silver is the only one who didn’t write off Trump and didn’t do so for the right reasons.
“Ben Shapiro never had a real job while Scott Adams spent 20 years in corporate America before becoming a famous cartoonist and then proceeded to write books, open restaurants and becoming an entrepreneur.”
SCott Adams has a stupid comic and psychobabble while Shapiro can be witty and insightful.

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