Probably should cross-post this in the “Mayday” meme…
“Why Democrats chose Iran over Israel;
“It’s a reversal of sympathies that baffles Iranian dissidents and pro-Israel activists, but it shouldn’t…”— https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/426408
“Post “Roaring Lion”: Israel’s adaptation and survival;
“To prevail in future wars, Israel will always need to be the “fittest” adversary. Recalling Charles Darwin and his interpreters, this signals a continuing capacity to “adapt” as required…” https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/426380
“,,,when there is no scandal, he creates one.
7:10
7 minutes, 10 seconds
When there is no fight, he picks one.
7:13
7 minutes, 13 seconds
When there is no enemy in the room, he goes find one in another country and starts a feud with their prime minister on a Tuesday morning.
7:23
7 minutes, 23 seconds
To you and me, this looks chaotic. To him, this is just Tuesday.”
“The idea is that some people, in the modern economy, do not run on money or status.
7:58
7 minutes, 58 seconds
They run on being looked at. The looking is the resource.
8:03
8 minutes, 3 seconds
And once you understand that, you understand why a billionaire president would still be posting at three in the morning about a cable news host’s haircut.
8:14
8 minutes, 14 seconds
Because to him, three in the morning is just another time to refill the tank. So those are the three tactics.
8:21
8 minutes, 21 seconds
Distract from the action. Feed the press the outrage. And keep the lights on yourself, every minute, every hour, every news cycle.
8:30
8 minutes, 30 seconds
They are not separate strategies. They are three legs of the same stool. Pull any one of them out, and the whole thing wobbles.
8:39
8 minutes, 39 seconds
Use all three at once, every day, and you have what we have been watching for ten years. Now here is the part I want you to sit with.
8:48
8 minutes, 48 seconds
None of this is hidden. He is not running a secret campaign. He is doing all of it in public.
8:56
8 minutes, 56 seconds
The reason it keeps working is not because he is hiding it.
8:59
8 minutes, 59 seconds
The reason it keeps working is because most of the people who are supposed to be analyzing it are paid to react to it.
9:07
9 minutes, 7 seconds
And reacting to it is what makes it work. The analyst on television, screaming about the comment, is not exposing the trick.
9:17
9 minutes, 17 seconds
The analyst on television is the trick. They are the second pigeon.
9:24
9 minutes, 24 seconds
If you ever want to see whether someone has actually figured Trump out, watch them when he says something outrageous.
9:30
9 minutes, 30 seconds
The ones who chase the comment have not figured anything out.
9:37
9 minutes, 37 seconds
The ones who quietly ask “what was signed today” are the ones who have. There are not many of those people on television.
9:46
9 minutes, 46 seconds
There is a reason for that. Television does not reward calm. Next week we are going to see this exact pattern play out again.
9:55
9 minutes, 55 seconds
He will say something that sounds like a man who has lost his mind. The mainstream media will spend three days screaming about it.
10:02
10 minutes, 2 seconds
And while they are screaming, something will be signed in a room that nobody is filming. The signing is the story.
10:11
10 minutes, 11 seconds
The screaming is the smokescreen.
10:13
10 minutes, 13 seconds
And once you can see the difference between those two things, you will never watch a White House news cycle the same way again.”
10:21
10 minutes, 21 seconds
—————————————————————————–
Good quote.
I recommend feeding YouTube text to an AI with the prompt “Please format for readability.”
Or at least copying the text with “Toggle off timestamps” option.
@ huxley at 9:36 pm:
I am not very tech savvy and wish I were. I just copy/pasted part of the transcript because I thought the content was valuable and probably accurate. Any of you may clean it up for readability, and tell us how you did it.
I don’t really trust AI.
@ vv > “I Finally Figured Out Donald Trump”
That was a very interesting video, but the title is a bit misleading: the presenter, The Body Language Guy (Jesus Enreque Rosas,) is very good, and he demonstrates in the earlier section that he has thought about Trump’s Body Language and character and behavior quite a bit, but perhaps only just recently connected some of the traits that looked unconnected before. I do think he nails the President’s operating procedure, and probably gives the correct psychological reasons, but mind-reading from a distance is always iffy.
Salena Zito still has the best advice: take The Donald seriously, but not literally.
PS I tried to toggle the time-stamps, but that feature seems to be missing now, although I know I’ve used it in the past.
Sometimes I wish companies would quit “improving” their products.
vv:
Good grief. YouTube no longer has a “Toggle off timestamps” option while viewing the transcript. My bad.
That’s unfortunate.
So unless one cares to delete all the time info by hand, AI is the best choice. It does a good job in my experience without making mistakes or modifying the meaning. Although it can get confused if two people are speaking.
Thanks for your replies. We must apparently keep learning this tech stuff continuously, and unlearning it when they whimsically(?) decide to change it.
I greatly regret the hours I have wasted on it.
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Quite amusing
Can’t be real.
Probably should cross-post this in the “Mayday” meme…
“Why Democrats chose Iran over Israel;
“It’s a reversal of sympathies that baffles Iranian dissidents and pro-Israel activists, but it shouldn’t…”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/426408
“The Palestinian Arab laundromat;
“Shockingly, the West has framed antisemitism and anti-Zionism as conscience itself…”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/426400
“The teenagers on death row for daring to defy Tehran regime”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2026/05/02/the-teenagers-on-death-row-for-daring-to-defy-tehran-regime/
+ Bonus:
“Post “Roaring Lion”: Israel’s adaptation and survival;
“To prevail in future wars, Israel will always need to be the “fittest” adversary. Recalling Charles Darwin and his interpreters, this signals a continuing capacity to “adapt” as required…”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/426380
Interesting video about Trump being outrageous:
“I Finally Figured Out Donald Trump”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLoqPXIOVx8
“,,,when there is no scandal, he creates one.
7:10
7 minutes, 10 seconds
When there is no fight, he picks one.
7:13
7 minutes, 13 seconds
When there is no enemy in the room, he goes find one in another country and starts a feud with their prime minister on a Tuesday morning.
7:23
7 minutes, 23 seconds
To you and me, this looks chaotic. To him, this is just Tuesday.”
“The idea is that some people, in the modern economy, do not run on money or status.
7:58
7 minutes, 58 seconds
They run on being looked at. The looking is the resource.
8:03
8 minutes, 3 seconds
And once you understand that, you understand why a billionaire president would still be posting at three in the morning about a cable news host’s haircut.
8:14
8 minutes, 14 seconds
Because to him, three in the morning is just another time to refill the tank. So those are the three tactics.
8:21
8 minutes, 21 seconds
Distract from the action. Feed the press the outrage. And keep the lights on yourself, every minute, every hour, every news cycle.
8:30
8 minutes, 30 seconds
They are not separate strategies. They are three legs of the same stool. Pull any one of them out, and the whole thing wobbles.
8:39
8 minutes, 39 seconds
Use all three at once, every day, and you have what we have been watching for ten years. Now here is the part I want you to sit with.
8:48
8 minutes, 48 seconds
None of this is hidden. He is not running a secret campaign. He is doing all of it in public.
8:56
8 minutes, 56 seconds
The reason it keeps working is not because he is hiding it.
8:59
8 minutes, 59 seconds
The reason it keeps working is because most of the people who are supposed to be analyzing it are paid to react to it.
9:07
9 minutes, 7 seconds
And reacting to it is what makes it work. The analyst on television, screaming about the comment, is not exposing the trick.
9:17
9 minutes, 17 seconds
The analyst on television is the trick. They are the second pigeon.
9:24
9 minutes, 24 seconds
If you ever want to see whether someone has actually figured Trump out, watch them when he says something outrageous.
9:30
9 minutes, 30 seconds
The ones who chase the comment have not figured anything out.
9:37
9 minutes, 37 seconds
The ones who quietly ask “what was signed today” are the ones who have. There are not many of those people on television.
9:46
9 minutes, 46 seconds
There is a reason for that. Television does not reward calm. Next week we are going to see this exact pattern play out again.
9:55
9 minutes, 55 seconds
He will say something that sounds like a man who has lost his mind. The mainstream media will spend three days screaming about it.
10:02
10 minutes, 2 seconds
And while they are screaming, something will be signed in a room that nobody is filming. The signing is the story.
10:11
10 minutes, 11 seconds
The screaming is the smokescreen.
10:13
10 minutes, 13 seconds
And once you can see the difference between those two things, you will never watch a White House news cycle the same way again.”
10:21
10 minutes, 21 seconds
—————————————————————————–
Good quote.
I recommend feeding YouTube text to an AI with the prompt “Please format for readability.”
Or at least copying the text with “Toggle off timestamps” option.
@ huxley at 9:36 pm:
I am not very tech savvy and wish I were. I just copy/pasted part of the transcript because I thought the content was valuable and probably accurate. Any of you may clean it up for readability, and tell us how you did it.
I don’t really trust AI.
@ vv > “I Finally Figured Out Donald Trump”
That was a very interesting video, but the title is a bit misleading: the presenter, The Body Language Guy (Jesus Enreque Rosas,) is very good, and he demonstrates in the earlier section that he has thought about Trump’s Body Language and character and behavior quite a bit, but perhaps only just recently connected some of the traits that looked unconnected before. I do think he nails the President’s operating procedure, and probably gives the correct psychological reasons, but mind-reading from a distance is always iffy.
Salena Zito still has the best advice: take The Donald seriously, but not literally.
PS I tried to toggle the time-stamps, but that feature seems to be missing now, although I know I’ve used it in the past.
Sometimes I wish companies would quit “improving” their products.
vv:
Good grief. YouTube no longer has a “Toggle off timestamps” option while viewing the transcript. My bad.
That’s unfortunate.
So unless one cares to delete all the time info by hand, AI is the best choice. It does a good job in my experience without making mistakes or modifying the meaning. Although it can get confused if two people are speaking.
ChatGPT does have a free tier:
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9275245-chatgpt-free-tier-faq
@AesopFan and @huxley
Thanks for your replies. We must apparently keep learning this tech stuff continuously, and unlearning it when they whimsically(?) decide to change it.
I greatly regret the hours I have wasted on it.