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Fox News Segment Backfires When Psychic Predicts ‘Sense of Loss’ for Trump in 2024
(www.thewrap.com)
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It's weird to me that they wouldn't just arrange the cards to create the narrative they want to sell. Psychics know it's a con, otherwise they wouldn't try so hard to spin the results.
I don't know. Some believe the con so much that they end believing it more than their customers (source: my mother who does it for free for her friends)
There's a very surprising percentage of people who believe more or less in astrology, numerology and other predictive bullshitology. Even in developed countries with a good level of education.
I mean, sure some people believe it, but to be successful at it, you have to engage in the grift. Because it doesn't actually work. You have to massage the story to get people hooked and make them think you're telling them something valuable. Reading tarot cards for fun isn't the same as building a business around your psychic abilities.
It's the difference between playing with a Ouija board and telling the police that a victim has contacted you from beyond the grave for the reward money. Belief in the former can be sincere, but you don't do the second part unless you know it's a con.
I mean...
If you're suggesting the psychic herself should have done that...she doesn't owe them anything, and this gets WAY more people talking about her.