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Back to episode — Episode 2352 CWSA 01/13/24

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news. And we also know that he's drawn to things that are good news. He's especially drawn to hearing this. There might be a solution. There might be some good news. So did his staff tell him about something that would be exciting and might be good news? Probably. Probably they told him because it's exactly what he wants to hear. Tell me some good news about something that might be working so I ca…

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e shown up in the polling are going to show up and there's a good reason why it'll be toward the end. Well that's convenient.

But they're not wrong. I don't think they're wrong. Do you know how many people in the general public have heard of just heard of Vivek Ramaswamy? Have you tried asking your normie friends what they think about Vivek? What do they say? Every person I've asked who isn't like a real political person, every person who's just a normie, they say the same thing. Who? Vivek Ramaswamy running for president, Republican? He's all over social media. And they say yeah it doesn't ring a bell.

What do you think causes that? Well some of it is the media coverage but a lot of it is that the undecideds really are not paying attention. The undecideds know they can just kind of wait till the end and make a decision the week of election day if they want to. There's no rule against that. So you do have to remember how uninvolved the public is. And I agree that if the anti-Trump people realize that he's the guy they might form up on the other side. That's possible.

It's a little bit more possible that Joe Biden's obvious decline will be so bad in less than a year that he will literally be a vegetable and he's still going to win probably.

All right. A Biden spokesperson, Michael Tyler, who's the Biden communications director, Michael Tyler, he said this and I want to see if this sounds like the scariest thing any American has ever said in any context. That's a big claim, right? The scariest thing that any American has ever said in any context. I'm going to see if I can meet that. Do you think I can meet that? The scariest thing any human has said in any context.

Here it is. Direct quote, talking about Biden, he says quote the president looks forward to spending the next 10 months reminding the American people how dangerous Donald Trump and his MAGA agenda are for Americans' pocketbooks, their freedoms, and their democracy.

You know I don't mind when our presidential candidates lie. You know I kind of expect it. I don't mind some exaggeration, some hyperbole, kind of expected. I don't even mind when they try to scare you because usually they're scaring you about something real. I didn't mind when Trump said you should be scared about the border. I didn't think I should be that scared but I thought that was just good politicking because the border was a real problem obviously and it did bring in real crime etc. along with good people. But that was fair because it was a dangerous situation. Maybe he exaggerated it, some would say, maybe not if you look at current events. But fear does make sense when you're a leader and there's something you need to be afraid of so you can act on it. I get that.

But you know what you don't need to be afraid of? The MAGA agenda. The MAGA agenda is literally about keeping you safer. That's almost the entire thing. How can I keep you safer? How can we avoid being a dictatorship? How can we keep America as some kind of republic if it ever was? So the fact that the way Biden is framing this is in revolutionary Civil War terms is actually the scariest thing I've ever heard an American say. That is the scariest thing I've ever heard. And it's scary because it's not true. If it were true it might also be scary but it would at least be in the service of some benefit and I'd be like okay. But to actually say this when it's very obviously not true that democracy is at stake, that's some dangerous, dangerous s

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tuff to put into the American world. All right let me tell you my current thinking, very biased by all the stuff I see. My current thinking is it's very unlikely that America has been a real republic probably for a long time if ever. If ever. To me it seems sort of obvious that the pretend stuff we do, voting for things, is not how anything happens. Now I don't know who's in charge or if it chang…

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