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Back to episode — Episode 2426 CWSA 03/27/24

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said you know what I worked on this equality but the more I think about it maybe we should take a different approach. If she said that I'd be fine with it. Because somebody in their 30s who changes their mind about what works because they tried the other thing and it didn't work, that would be a strong signal. Very strong signal. I like people who can change their minds and do it publicly and show…

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two pluses. He picked smart and he picked young. I don't hate that. And somebody who wasn't a creature of Washington DC. I don't hate that. So there's a lot to like about it but there's just a huge red flag with this racial equality background stuff.

Now if you're new to my show and you just casually came in and you heard me mocking racial equality, it's not because I don't want people to be equal. It's about the policies to get there. The policies to get there are absurd and really you're just a way to humiliate Black men basically. Because DEI looks good on women because when women complain and whine and then something gets fixed it feels like a natural situation. When men complain about the past as the reason that they're not successful they look pathetic. They look that way to other men. And there's a reason you don't hear men complain as much about being held back. It's because it's a bad look. It's pathetic. The whole point of being a man is that you're supposed to go through the wall. You're not supposed to quit. Oh there's a little wall in front of me. No, going through the wall is what makes you a man. Sorry if you stand there and whine and just join the women. And if you're in the Democrat Party it's basically a woman's party. So a female strategy for success is complaining about how unfairly you've been treated and it's a very good strategy and we've seen it work. And women certainly had a right to complain. Do we all agree about that? Women definitely had a right to complain and so they did and so everybody said okay. Well not only do I feel a certain way because women are unhappy because men are just primed to want to solve problems like that but also it's valid. You look at it you go okay you didn't even have the vote. You really couldn't. There was a time in my lifetime where a woman really would have a hard time getting a job that was a male-centric job. But not anymore. They're in pretty good shape right now.

But if you're a Black man I think it's just embarrassing for anybody to think that you got a leg up from the government. To me that would be embarrassing. So I wouldn't want to be in that situation.

Well let's talk about Puff Daddy. We still don't know. Diddy. Yeah, did he or did he not? There's an old video of Puff Daddy saying that white men like Trump need to be banished. White men like Trump. Who would be a white man who was in his opinion like Trump? Would it be Republicans? Would I be on that list? Would he say people like me should be banished? Well I don't know. But having heard that video I'm going to change my admonition yesterday when I said no matter how guilty he looks in this situation you should reserve your judgment until, because that would make him innocent till proven guilty and that is the standard which we should hold to no matter how many rumors you hear. Let the court decide and until then innocent until proven guilty no matter how bad this looks.

Well I was wrong. Turns out he's a racist and I don't care if he gets burned. So he can die in jail with a broomstick up his ass and I'd be happy about that. I don't really need any more racists. So let's get rid of him. Mal-informed is what I call him.

The story that I hear the most, if I'm reluctant to believe all the sex claims, you know there are claims about underage people at his parties and there's claims about raping and stuff. But the one allegation that I've heard from several sources who seem to know him personally is drugging the drinks of women at his parties. And who was it who was describing that? The way they do it is they put the drug in the mixer and then the women drug themselves. So you have the place where anybody can go up and pour themselves a drink and they make women always make mixed drinks. So women typically are not going to do vodka straight up. They're always going to add some juice to it. So they put the drug in the juice. That's the allegation. I can't prove that it happened but that would make them drug themselves so that it wouldn't be obvious who drugged them. Like they wouldn't have any memory of somebody putting something in their drink and they wouldn't have any memory of anybody giving them a drink. So the men would just drink without the juice, you know, which is typical, straight up or maybe add their own Diet Coke or something. And the women would just naturally add the juice and then bad things would happen is the allegation.

I don't know if any of that's true. I just know that on video he seems to be a major racist so for that alone you can fry him.

Michael Shermer who is one of the most notable skeptics, I think he leans, I don't know if he's an independent or leans a little Democrat but don't judge him by that because there might be only a few people who are not Republicans who can actually look objectively at stuff and he's one of them. So he's a good follow. So if you want to see somebody who may not be on the same team as you, and I don't know by the way, I just think he's not Trump, he's not a Trump supporter but I don't know if he's independent or what. But he tells us today, and Robert Bartholomew has an article on this, that Havana syndrome, that thing where they thought there was the secret sonic weapon, turns out there have been studies and they now know for sure it did not exist and that all of that was a psychological event. It was all a psychological event.

Now you know I'm the first person to tell you that right the day the story broke. I said this isn't real. This is a mass hysteria. Not only is it a mass hysteria but it's a classic one. It's an obvious one. It's like it's right on the nose. It's so classic hysteria that I don't know how you could miss it. Well how you could miss it is to not be familiar with mass hysterias. If you've never seen one or never learned about one or never studied the history of mass hysterias you don't know that they're not just common. It's closer to being the operating system of humanity. We just do one mass hysteria after another. There are several of them percolating right now. This isn't the only one. It's just the most obvious one.

So let me tell you how I spotted it so you can use these tricks for yourself in the future. Number one it's an extraordinary claim. It's a claim similar to I have a Bigfoot in my backyard or UFOs abducted me. It's in that class. So when you first hear it you say huh that would be an extraordinary claim. Well extraordinary claims are going to be wrong 99 percen

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t of the time. So your starting point should be 99 percent likely not true. If you started with it's probably true because it's in the news and it's probably true because the intelligence people say it's true, as probably true because the CIA says it's true, as probably true because all of the networks are reporting it, if you started from that perspective you've learned nothing. None of those are…

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