Back to episode — Episode 2337 CWSA 12/29/23 Why do We Keep Confusing Political Opinions With Mental Illness?
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, but I've been saying for a while now and you can all verify it because you all heard me say it that the economy was going to surprise on the upside. Surprise on the upside. And then all the year end stories are hey it's surprise on the upside, nobody saw it coming. Yeah yeah, somebody saw it coming. Do you know what was the basis for my prediction? The basis for my prediction is fake news. Fake…
← Previous segment →s on the other side. That's fair. You know you could take a side and still say there's bad stuff happening to the people who are getting the bad stuff.
But honestly if you're going to be in my country and protest pro-Palestinians in front of the World Trade Center I'm going to give you exactly what you earned which is a complete sensation of empathy withdrawal. Absolute withdrawal of empathy. So keep it up. Yeah no no empathy now.
As a human being of course you never lose your empathy. But as a person who has to pick their targets because there's so many things you could have empathy about you'd be exhausted. I'm just going to move my empathy somewhere else. I got a lot of stuff I can worry about. I got a lot of stuff I can help with. There are a lot of people who need my empathy. I'm going to take all of my empathy away from the pro-Palestinian movement because they did that. Yeah that's the line. You crossed the line. Sorry. I can't worry about you anymore.
But let's make this interesting shall we? Let's make it interesting. How many of you believe that the FBI infiltrated the January 6 crowd and incited them to do something that they maybe wouldn't have been inclined to do without that incitement? A lot of you think that. I think and you think that partly because it is routine for law enforcement to penetrate big movements so that they can be on the inside. Right?
Do you think this pro-Palestinian movement has no undercover people in it? You think there's zero undercover people? If there are zero undercover people it would be sort of the first time. Now if you were an undercover person and let's say you were pro-Israel or at least anti these protesters, what would be a really good play? What would be a really good incitement?
If I were an undercover FBI pretending to be one of the pro-Palestinian protesters I would say I got an idea. Let's take this protest to the World Trade Center because that would destroy the entire movement. It looks like it did. Honestly you couldn't tell any American that the pro-Palestinian people protested at the World Trade Center without changing their mind entirely about how they feel about it. It's a little too on the nose.
So I've got a problem with this story. That's a little too perfect isn't it? It is so pro-Israel that you have to wonder if it happened naturally. Are they really that stupid? Because I don't think the pro-Palestinian people have demonstrated ridiculous stupidity. In fact they seem to be quite effective. So I'm going to put a little question mark on this one. Might have been a really fun, you know it could have been a successful op to embarrass the movement. Maybe. I don't know. But in any case it's certainly the worst thing they could have done short of beheading Americans. So it's very clarifying in a certain sense.
Did you know, as actually reports, here's their headline: The US is on course to end 2023 with one of the largest annual drops in homicides on record. Did you know that homicides are dropping and in fact one of the biggest drops on record this year? Wow. If you were going into an election year that would be kind of important to know wouldn't it? Because I bet a lot of you thought crime was up.
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We shall now identify the fake news. Fake news identifier number one: When it says we're on course to end 2023 with one of the largest drops in homicides on record, what is missing from the story? What's missing from the story that's really really important? It's dropping down to the baseline from the pandemic levels. So it's not a drop from the baseline which would be really good news. It's a dro…
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