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Back to episode — Episode 2316 CWSA 12/08/23 News So Delicious I Can't Even Mention It In The Title

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he CIA asset part but it's something he read. Now we also know that the same essentially the same group of terrorists had tried to bomb the World Trade Center. So now you've got the name of a terrorist because he was better informed than the rest of us and he was known to be a dangerous one. We've got a target that they went after before. This seems likely they might try again. So here's the patt…

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t with soldiers yet, how do you like the fact that that's the guy who might be taking a drug, almost certainly is taking a drug that guaranteed could make you more confident and therefore more prone to risk? What do you think? I feel like we need to know that. And if we don't know it that should be grounds for impeachment. That's what I think.

There's a story that this is how Tucker Carlson is framing it, that the Biden administration is openly threatening that if we don't fund Ukraine that our sons will be sent to die. Now I'm not sure that's exactly the way it was framed but it's pretty close. It's pretty close. Here's what actually happened. So Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told some members of the House in a closed briefing that if they don't appropriate more money for Ukraine we'll end up sending your uncles and cousins and sons to fight in Russia. Now it's not exactly a threat. It's more like a worst case scenario. Like if we don't do this we might be forced to do this other thing that we also don't want to do. But it does come across as a threat even if that's not the intention. He's using it literally to negotiate. If you're using the risk of sending your children to die as your negotiating lever, well that is sort of blackmail. That is sort of blackmail, isn't it? It's right on the line. I mean I guess you could say it's somewhat transparent except that it was a closed door meeting I think which is not so transparent. I'd feel less bad if he said it in public because at least we all see exactly what's going on. But if he's using that as a method to threaten lawmakers behind closed doors that's pretty not cool.

All right. Nikki Haley's campaign has an adviser that's already calling Vivek Ramaswamy's destruction of her during the debate as misogynist. Let me give you some advice Nikki Haley. If you're running as a Republican and a woman and somebody criticizes you and your attack through at least through your proxies, and I think she said it before, is that it's misogyny, you're no Republican. How in the world does she have enough support to make it into the next, I mean that's as un-Republican as you could be. She's literally saying that her, I mean well I don't even have to say more do I? Do I have to say more about that? There's what else is there to say? You could not be less qualified if that's the best you got. The best you got is oh I'm a woman and I'm superior because I'm a woman. What she said, she actually says she's superior because

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she's a woman and that also anybody who has a criticism of her policies is a misogynist. You Nikki Haley, you I do not want you anywhere near the Oval Office because we don't need a sexist in the office, right? We don't need somebody who's an obvious misandrist, sexist, woke, artist, money spending piece of, well that's just my opinion. All right. Let's see. So see if you could recognize what thi…

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