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Back to episode — Episode 2358 CWSA 01/19/24

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have better navigational skills than women. But the new study revealed the reason for it is not anything genetic. Like if you thought there was some natural gender sex difference, well first of all you're a pig, and second of all ABC News is here to tell you it's not based on any kind of natural difference. It's based on the fact that boys tend to play outside more often. They're more encouraged t…

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ecause she has excellent navigational skills. And as a second part of the story, I have terrible navigation skills. I don't have any navigational skills. I have none. I have good spatial skills but I don't pay attention when I go anywhere so I can never get back.

Here's what I think is happening. Here's what I really think the science is without any benefit of any studies. I believe that after let's say 300,000 years of humanoid evolution that boys are designed to go hunt and control territory. The men are designed by evolution to hunt and to control territory militarily. If we don't have a military we'll do it with football. If we don't have football we will literally whip out our penis and spray down your lawn so we dominate it, own it a little bit. We're basically built for territory. So when I go into a place I'm thinking territory. You know, when I play football I'm trying to gain a yard, right? And if I'm playing a game I'm trying to make my impact be as large as possible. If I'm at bat in a baseball game I don't want to bunt. I mean sometimes I have to, but I want to hit a home run, thus increasing the physical range of my impact.

So boys, I think, evolved to be all about the physical space because if they hunt they've got to know where to go and they've got to know how to get back, right? So I would think that nature has selected for people who could get back home after the hunt. Probably it's just that, or it's because boys are encouraged to play more outside, right? That's what counts as science.

Well, there's a funny video compilation. Rand Paul had some fun mocking Nikki Haley. So he was retweeting a compilation. He says since Nikki Haley is refusing to debate Ron DeSantis before New Hampshire, I present to you Nikki Haley debating herself. Now the first thing I thought was, oh it's going to be one of those AI things where somebody has an AI Nikki Haley debating herself. Nope, it was actually video clips of her saying I will not do X and then followed by we should really do X. But I will not do Y followed by, you know, would be a really good idea. A lot of whiplash. So it's actually hilarious that she doesn't seem to have any standards or philosophical mooring or anything. She just sort of going with whatever is going to get her elected. So that's hilarious if you want to see that. It's in my X feed.

I guess the courts, a judge said that Trump can be on the ballot in Washington state, which is a big deal because this, I guess it was the 14th Amendment, was trying to be used to say he's a damn insurrectionist and so he can't be on the ballot. But the judge said no. Now can somebody give me an update? So far he's not been denied the ballot in any state, right, in a confirmed final way? There may be some still challenges but so far he's on every ballot, right? Okay, yeah, I think he's on every ballot. I think it's going to stay that way. Yeah, there may be some temporary hiccups but I feel like if it came to the Supreme Court, how is that going to go any other way, right? The Supreme Court is not going to keep him off the ballot. I don't see how it could.

All right, well, so we'll see. So I see you mentioning Maine but until it's election day I think you can assume that that will get corrected, maybe not. But anyway that's good news.

So Tucker Carlson had a new video. He has a theory that basically goes like this. That what the Democrats are up to, according to Tucker, the evidence would suggest that their strategy looks like this. They know Biden can't win so that's not part of their strategy. Their strategy would be more along the lines of supporting Nikki Haley because in some of these primaries Democrats can just vote for the Republican candidate. So I guess Reid Hoffman, famous rich Democrat funder and founder of LinkedIn, which got sold to Microsoft, he's one of the main funders of not only Nikki Haley but the lawsuit against Trump for that E. Jean Carroll thing. So the same person who's funding Nikki Haley's campaign, a Democrat, is funding a Republican. That same Democrat is funding the lawsuit against Trump in the E. Jean Carroll case. Now that's not the only things he's funding but it gives you a little sense of him.

There are some who claim, and I don't know if this is true, that he visited Epstein Island. Do you think is that true or is that just another one of those rumors? Because there are people on my list that really did not go to Epstein Island. So I'm going to say I don't know that's true. I'm going to not state that to be true. I'm going to state that to be something somebody claimed. Because if I don't have a picture of him on the island I'm not going to base it on somebody's list on the internet. So whether or not that's true, and I'm going to say I'll assume innocence until proven guilty. Remember that's always the standard. That's an accusation but he's not the government, right? Reid Hoffman is a private citizen so you should assume that he's innocent of anything illegal unless somebody really proves it in court. Anything short of that he's innocent. So I'm not going to buy that he's on the list or that he's ever been to the island or anything like that.

However, may I remind you that we don't have the Epstein list or the videos, which means that somebody does. Whoever has the videos is who's running the country, you know that, right? Whoever has the Epstein stuff, it was all designed to blackmail the most important people. Do you think whoever had that power, like the power of Thanos with all the rings, do you think they said, you know this is too dangerous, we better put this in a drawer somewhere? No. Now whoever has his blackmail material still controls whoever Epstein was trying to control. And the thing is that you just have to hint that you have it and you've got all the control you need.

Hey, you know, I would never out you as being on Epstein Island and having illegal sex. I would never do that. But I do have the videos. I do have the videos. They're in my control. But I would never show them to anybody. By the way, you know it would be a great idea if you were to fund the Democratic Party to the tune of 20 million. Did a separate conversation. No, no, I'm not tying it to the Epstein. No, no, no, no. I would never show that stuff in public. I have it all and it would take a lot for me to want to show it in public or leak it or something. But you know I just want you to k

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now I have it. All right, you don't need to directly blackmail anybody if they know you have the goods or if they suspect it. So there might be more than one blackmailer. There might be a blackmailer who has the stuff and there might be another blackmailer who's even smarter who is pretending to have it, you know, who might potentially have actually had it. So I think we're a blackmail-ocracy and…

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