Back to episode — Episode 2360 CWSA 01/21/24
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urce of a story, what should your brain say to you to keep you on track? Your brain should say to you, I don't know if this is true, but smart people tell me that NBC News is really just an organ of the CIA. So any message that is in their news, you could imagine I can't confirm this to be true. It's merely an allegation that it's what the government wants you to know, or at least the CIA. Do you…
← Previous segment →eed to help them with their mental problems as they see it? Well, I don't know. But I do know that anytime you hear somebody say you should or should not do something because of its cost, you are not dealing with a smart person. Because everything has a cost.
I've got a recommendation for you. Stop eating food. It just makes you fat. Stop eating food. It's taking your money. So if something's going to take your money and make you fat, you should stop doing it. Am I right? Because all you should look at is the negative. Why should you ever look at the positives and then weigh the positives compared to the negatives? No, we don't do that in today's world. No. All we do is pick one side and say that's all you need to know.
If you're for marijuana, you say it's medicinal. But what about the negatives? It's medicinal. Yeah, but there are some negatives. It's medicinal. And then you talk to somebody who's anti-weed and they'll say it causes XYZ problems. Maybe. Yeah, but what about all the obvious medical benefits people get? What about freedom? It causes more schizophrenia, we think, but we're not sure.
So the arguments on marijuana are almost always fake in both directions because both sides will just tell you what's good or what's bad and they won't mention the other side. And so all the weed stories are fake.
Here's more of fake science. It's called the fake science of polling. So the Wall Street Journal looked at a study that said that they talked to a lot of Trump supporters who said, well, we would vote for him if he doesn't get convicted of any crimes. But if he's convicted of a crime, something like, I don't know, a quarter of the people say they won't vote for him. Is that a big problem or a small problem? Go in the comments. Is that real news? Real science? Because the polling is scientific, right?
All right, here's what's wrong with this. People don't vote hypothetically. So the question is, hypothetically, if he's convicted of a crime, how would you vote? That's not anything that's real. Here's what would really happen in the real world. Trump gets convicted of a crime. The 28 percent or whatever it was who said that they would never vote for him if he's convicted of a crime, now the election's coming up. It's in a few days, you know, hypothetically. And it's Biden versus Trump.
So somebody's going to look at Trump being convicted on any one of
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those charges and they're going to say, you know what? Given that, I'm going to choose Biden. In the real world, you think that's going to happen? But if you ask me in a poll what would I do, there is a good chance I'd say, well, you know, pollster, you called an upstanding citizen who cares about the rule of law, unlike those unwashed heathens out in the rest of the world. I am the kind of person…
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