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Back to episode — Episode 2356 CWSA 01/17/24

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could live with that? Do you think he'd be happy with Vivek overshadowing him? It's a possibility. All right now by itself I've told you that one of the things that people don't understand about Trump is he really really likes smart people. And if he's going to get along with anybody it will be because they're smart even if they disagree. I mean Trump is just addicted to smart. I mean it's practi…

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t successfully with some postpartum depression stuff and there are emergency kind of situations where you just need somebody else. Somebody's got to help you. I think 20%. Now 20% is high enough that I'd try it you know like if I thought I needed something and I didn't know what else to do 20% is definitely high enough to try it if you could afford it. But just be aware they really don't make money if they heal you you know. If you stop going to therapy they don't make money anymore. That model just doesn't work.

All right Jack Smith prosecutor got excoriated. I can say a word I've never said in public. A word I've never said out loud. I've read it and I know what it means but like me I'll bet you've never said this word out loud. Jack Smith was excoriated. He was excoriated according to the news. So what he did was he had asked Twitter to give him access to Trump's private messages and Twitter complied because they had to. It was a warrant and they were instructed that they couldn't tell Trump that his private messages had been penetrated. And some judges just said he has executive privilege. You can't do that. And they slapped him down and excoriated him. Yes he got excoriated. Have I mentioned that he was excoriated? Yeah.

And basically the court had no they weren't giving him anything. That basically he just violated presidential privacy which we all think is a good idea to have privacy if you're president. And the courts just said nope. But he won what? I'm seeing some dissent in the comments. The case all right so I will confess the following. All the legal stuff. Oh we got the messages somebody says. Yeah he already got the messages right. So yeah I suppose he won in the sense that he got the messages but I don't know if he can use them in a legal sense. If he got them but he can't use them did he win? So I don't know the ins and outs of this but it's all sketchy and bad.

Walgreens is closing their fourth location in Boston in a black area of Roxbury and the residents are quite mad at Walgreens. Do I need to say any more about that? They're mad at Walgreens because Walgreens is closing because there's too much shoplifting. So they're really mad at Walgreens. What else is there to say about that story really? Well here's what I say. You should not live anywhere that Walgreens is not willing to live. Is that fair? If you live where the Walgreens is running away get the out of there. Get the away. If Walgreens is afraid you should get away. Get away.

All right there's a Biden's got a campaign ad where he says you know I'm the only person who can defeat Donald Trump. I'm the only one who can defeat him. I love that the Democrats have completely given up on running on policy and leadership. It's just purely personal now. I don't like Donald Trump. You don't like Donald Trump. We don't like Donald Trump. Let's do something about it. They're not even pretending that this is about anything but Trump is so weak and hilarious.

Well the Wall Street Journal's dumping on DEI in government. An attorney

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named Mr. Toth in Austin is writing in the Wall Street Journal that the federal requirements that if you're a contractor for the government you have to have a certain amount of diversity he says that's clearly illegal and could easily be sued out of existence. I don't know about that. It's lasted a long time but the fact that the Wall Street Journal is reporting that DEI and well they're allowing…

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