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Back to episode — Episode 2362 CWSA 01/23/24

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ou can see the comments so I guess other people could see them but I can't. All right all right well I'll continue anyway. Jordan Peterson points out that on YouTube he accrued only 50,000 views in 14 hours which would be enough views to make the rest of us jealous because it's so many but for him it's nothing. You know normal would be maybe three quarters of a million or something. So according…

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the five swing states and that was all of the five swing states. Is that true? There was no other state and it was 100% of the swing states. How did I get to this point without knowing that? Because he perfectly formulates the question. When you put it that way it's obviously fraud. I guess I'd been resisting. I've been resisting the idea that you could tell it was fraud because they decided to count votes the next day. If that's the only thing I knew I'd say well it's suspicious but I mean in a big bureaucracy some states will do it different than others. But I somehow I was unaware of this context. I knew that some of them were swing states but I didn't know it was all five all at the same time. If it's all five at the same time it's definitely fraud. Are we on the same page? So this is a perfect example of something I say a lot. A lot of the times when you think people are disagreeing they're not. It's just that the fake news got to somebody and it didn't get to somebody else. That's it. So in this case I think I was a victim of fake news or maybe I didn't do my own work because it never occurred to me that it was all five and only the five and at the same time. Somehow those three facts never were in my brain at the same time until Benny Johnson put it in that form.

Yeah Scott is waking up. I block everybody who says that. Yeah I'll let you go this time because I don't know how to block you in real time but everybody that says I'm waking up I block. So don't do it jokingly because you get blocked. All right only because I take it as an insult. All right I know you're kidding. It's okay she was kidding.

All right yeah I think the reasonable belief because the government is guilty until proven innocent. If you're the government you have to prove it was legitimate and the evidence suggests otherwise. Yeah all right.

So Trump said directly and out loud that the reason he's made up his mind to never want to have a central bank digital currency, the so-called CBDC, is that Vivek basically filled him in and told him what the risk was and then Trump said okay I'm on board. Have you ever seen that before? The simple transparency of Trump is like a beauty to behold. Oh I didn't really understand that topic and then Vivek explained it to me so now here's my opinion. That was just beautiful wasn't it? Because you know I don't even know much about the topic so I can't say I have a strong opinion other than eventually we will have a digital currency. There's no question about it. Yeah we're not going to be paying stuff with paper in a hundred years. It's just not going to happen. So I don't know what will happen but there's going to be a digital currency someday. But in the meantime maybe you want to forestall that and I could understand that. I wouldn't oppose you wanting that. But just watching how the sausage was made and then not having a problem with it is just a purifying feeling you know? Don't you always assume that what's happening is some like weird behind the scenes negotiating and somebody got blackmailed and somebody doesn't understand and somebody's taking a bribe and you know it's all that stuff and then sometimes it's just this. Oh Vivek is super smart. He explained it to me so now here's my opinion. And Vivek's really smart. What's better than that right? What is better than that? Nothing. That is government operating perfectly. Full transparency. A poor opinion that was corrected by a better opinion and then he explains what happened and pow it's funny. It's such a small thing. It was just a throwaway thing he said at a rally but there's very few things that have made me feel better about the country than watching exactly how that decision got made. Yes put your smart people in charge of the complicated stuff.

So Trump says a very small chance that DeSantis would be in his cabinet. Not that he wouldn't do a good job but I do love the fact that DeSantis came through this process with so much respect. Don't you love that? Like you don't really think a political process ends with anybody looking good especially if they didn't win but he set a standard that I really appreciated. You know I'll say it again. What he added to the country, DeSantis simply by running and giving us essentially validating Trump as the Republican's genuine choice that's so important. I mean it's a difference between a civil war and not having one. It might be that big a difference. And of course Vivek the same thing. So what Vivek and DeSantis did for the country in our system is just hard to underestimate. It's just huge. So debt of gratitude.

Glenn Greenwald is showing us the way. He had some event where he was debating with s

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ome leftists about January 6th whether there was an insurrection and you have to hear him. I wouldn't say it was joking mocking but he's so good at making his points it just makes other people look stupid. So here was the things he was saying to people who believed there was a, I think one of the mainstream was there and somebody else. He noted that Trump didn't resist leaving the building like wh…

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