# Interesting podcast conversation between Sam Harris and Charles Murray (of "Bell Curve" fame)

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**Created:** [April 23, 2017, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-podcast-conversation-between-sam-harris-and-charles-murray-of-bell-curve-fame/785052 "2017-04-23T09:21:23Z")\
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> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> Nope, you’re the liar here, troll.

There were some people in that thread gullible enough to still give you credit for your original prediction. But I’m far from the only one who laughed at you. To sum up:

In the OP you predicted Trump would win.

Then in [post #246](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19717540&postcount=246), a couple weeks before the election, you posted this:

> [@I predict that Donald Trump is going to win the election for POTUS this year.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-predict-that-donald-trump-is-going-to-win-the-election-for-potus-this-year/747810/247):
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> I am no longer confident that Mr. Trump will win this election.
> 
> Since the conventions, his conduct and past information about him and how he conducts himself have been abysmal.
> 
> Mrs. Clinton, OTOH, has conducted herself well and shown intelligence, humor and patience.
> 
> I am now hopeful (and expect) that the American public overall will not see Mr. Trump as fit for POTUS.
> 
> Just thought y’all would like to know. 😃

Then you posted nothing further in the thread until [post #250](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19764689&postcount=250), after the election:

> [@I predict that Donald Trump is going to win the election for POTUS this year.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-predict-that-donald-trump-is-going-to-win-the-election-for-potus-this-year/747810/251):
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> Well I’ll be dipped. I was right!

Which, I will say again, is ludicrous and you should be embarrassed. As **Chief Pedant** noted in response to your whining that just because you reversed yourself in post 246, it doesn’t change what you wrote in the OP:

> [@I predict that Donald Trump is going to win the election for POTUS this year.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-predict-that-donald-trump-is-going-to-win-the-election-for-potus-this-year/747810/294):
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> Of course it does.  
> In the OP you express a belief Mr Trump would win.  
> In 246 you reverse your position and exactly change what you wrote in the OP.
> 
> LOL.

And in searching for those posts, I see you have been at it again, and deservedly [got called out](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19845847&postcount=24) for it:

> [@I predict that Donald Trump will not serve a second term as POTUS.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-predict-that-donald-trump-will-not-serve-a-second-term-as-potus/774482/24):
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> Of course **Snowboarder Bo** is going to come back to this thread in 2 years make a post that actually Trump **will** get a second term, then in 2020 bump it either way to say. “watcha know, I was right! Lets go to the quarry and throw tings down there!”

If this makes me the liar, I don’t want to be the truthteller! :rolleyes:

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