Back to episode — Episode 2427 CWSA 03/28/24
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o the gym, bald works perfectly. All right. The Babylon Bee is reporting that Ron DeSantis has been kicked out of the Republican Party. Wow. What did he do? Kicked out of the Republican Party for accomplishing too many things. Accomplishing too many things. I think the last straw was when he immediately responded to the public outcry about squatting and immediately changed the law so squatters do…
← Previous segment →Herridge, as you know, had some kind of weird exit from her job at CBS. But there is rumor that she's negotiating with X to be on the X platform. How awesome would that be? To me that would be probably the single most important thing that happened on X since the takeover. And I say that because she has such a good reputation as a solid investigative journalist that having her on the platform would be very different from adding Don Lemon to the platform, right? Because Catherine Herridge is not noted as anybody who's in the bag for one side. She seems to be straight down the middle. So that would be a huge boost to the credibility.
But I have a question. As Elon Musk has pointed out a few times, the traditional media is taking a big hit in viewership. It's down like 20% a year, while X clicks are up. But you've all noticed that a lot of the traffic, at least the political traffic and news-related traffic, it links back to the news. So what would happen if the traditional news just went away? I don't think it can because they need it for propaganda. But if X became the only good place to get news because it's the only place you trusted, would the others go away or would they just devolve more into the propagandists that they are? I think they would just devolve more. That's my guess.
But anyway, it's a big deal. I hope they make that deal.
So poor Steven Crowder. As you know, his divorce situation is public. And I'm not goin
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g to get into the who-did-what part. But there's a story that's bigger than the story. The story is about the people observing it. So there's a whole bunch of people observing a divorce in which the wife was not working and the husband had made a ton of money, especially recently. And they had to work out the financials because there's no prenup. And I guess it's not super friendly, or as friendly…
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