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Back to episode — Episode 2374 CWSA 02/04/24

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you know when was the last time I looked at a news site? I just don't do it anymore. It's just not where I get the news. Pretty much all the news I want to get filtered through somebody who knows more than the people who reported the news. You know what is bad news? Not bad news as in unlucky news, but a bad form of news is you go to any media site and then you just read the story. That's not even…

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he best persuasion. The best persuasion is you don't sit in a room by yourself and say what can I say that will make a difference with whatever group you're trying to persuade. That could work but it would be very difficult to think, see into their minds. But when you see black people being interviewed on the media and they're asked about Trump versus Biden, what's the one thing that they always say? They always say when they're talking about Trump versus Biden, the one thing they always say lately — well I'll say lately because it's changed every time — it's I made more money under Trump. Every time. How many of the black citizens that you've seen interviewed said they don't like Trump because he's a racist this year in the past year? How many times have you seen a black citizen — not a pundit, I'm not talking about somebody who does it professionally, actually zero. The dog that's not barking there is not barking really loud, isn't that weird? Can you find me a citizen who's not a professional, not a pundit, let's say not an academic, not somebody who writes and talks for a living, just an actual citizen, and just ask them if they think that Trump is a racist compared to Biden. That would be the fair question, is compared to Biden. I feel like blacks get it now in the sense that Trump was always protecting Americans and they're American. That's the end of the story, right? The Trump point of view is so simple I'm surprised it's taking this long to catch on. Are you American? I'm on your side. And then he proves it by keeping the non-Americans down if he can do it so that you're not competing with them.

I feel like Black America is one narrative away. And even though I say this jokingly it's literally true in a sort of indirect way. It's literally true that the immigrant situation has eliminated the possibility of reparations. Would you agree? Now you might say to

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yourself, well Scott, there's still that one place that's going to do it anyway. That's probably true. But that conversation is largely tabled in my opinion because the money we're spending on the migrant population now — you could say to yourself but Scott, didn't you tell us that money is fungible and that's not how it works and just because you're spending money on one thing that doesn't mean y…

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