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Back to episode — Episode 2440 CWSA 04/10/24

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at's what they're adding. The narrative. So the narrative is also the lying. You know, it's lying by narrative or lying by what you leave out. So the human's going to have to come in and remove the context because the AI will be tempted to add context. Well, some people say this and other people say that. So the human's got to get rid of the "some people say." No, no, no. The narrative does not su…

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it was just screechy? Did they notice it was a lot of mentally ill women who got radio shows? They probably did. Now some of it might be that social media is more interesting or whatever, but yeah, turns out NPR literally turned from a news business into a propaganda business. And during at least the second half of that they dropped almost all of their business. They're basically on the way of going out of business if you can call it business.

And the question I wonder is, now that NPR has admitted being fake news — and there's no question that this happened to all of the other left-leaning entities — can we agree? And by the way, if you were to look at a list of objective news, because every once in a while somebody will say we looked at which news entities are the most objective, and they'd say, oh, this one on the right is so right-leaning, and yes we admit this one on the left is pretty left, but at least you've got NPR right in the middle. Huh? Am I imagining that I actually heard that? That people rating the bias of news entities put NPR like solidly in the middle? I think I've seen that, right? I'm not imagining that the other fake news told us that NPR was the good one. It was never true.

And anybody who listened to it who had any sense of what was real knew it. I mean, it was just screamingly obvious that it was a completely corrupt organization and they'd abandoned the news business a long time ago anyway. So are Democrats noticing? I doubt it. Do you think Democrats saw that story that found out one of their favorite news sources was completely fake for years? No bet they are not familiar with that story. Do you think that story got surfaced on all their Facebook posts? Do you think all the left-leaning women caught that story? Nope, nope. You saw it because you already agreed with it. Nobody else is going to see it. Siloed.

I saw a post from Heidi Przybyla, who has a very clever X account. Lots of good posts there. Good follow. Good follow, Heidi Przybyla. And she said in a post, most psych majors and true crime fans are women for one simple reason: we're crazy.

Has anybody ever noticed that psych majors are generally people looking to fix their own problems? Almost always. I've never seen anybody who was perfectly mentally healthy who wanted to go into the psychology business. I've never seen it. It's people who have their own problems, and from it they think they've learned something or learned more, want to help people who are in the same situation. But basically it's the job that attracts the most people who would self-assess as having mental problems.

But what about this true crime stuff? How many of you men have been in a relationship where your female partner was obsessed with true crime shows, and you looked at it and said, you know what, why do I want to expose myself to this? How many minutes of my life should I be looking at horrible crimes and all the details of them? And you think to yourself, what is wrong with you that you find this entertaining? I'm deeply disturbed by the fact that of all the things you could watch while I'm scrolling through reels on Instagram of kittens hugging dogs — literally I spend some part of every day scrolling through Instagram, which has now quite lovingly served up a non-stop trail of cats hugging dogs. Can't get enough. I cannot get enough of cats hugging dogs. I will watch that all day long.

You know what I won't watch? True crime. Now just wait a year, and I've spent a year looking at cats hugging dogs, and let's say somebody chosen randomly, a woman, has spent her time watching non-stop true crime TV shows and TV shows that make you cry and feel terrible. Who's going to be in better shape at the end of the year? Me watching kittens hug dogs all day long, or a crazy woman who's probably going to become a psychology major to figure out what the hell is wrong with herself?

Anyway, I bring this up because the theme that women are crazy — not all of them, by the way. I feel terrible that I have to even say this. Can we do this like an idiot again? All right, here, let me give a special announcement for the idiots who are listening. Now most of you are not idiots, so you can talk among yourselves. This is just for the dumbest people. When I talk about something about women, I never mean all women. And when I'm talking about women being batshit crazy, I'm mostly talking about left-leaning liberal women. So if you're not one of those and you're not crazy, I'm not talking about you.

But it's time that we are just being open about the fact we have a massive problem of mentally ill women. And it's not just a massive problem because they are victims of whatever the hell is going on in the society that's making them crazy, but they're also in charge. They have the power in the Democrat Party, which has a majority. And it's an existential threat. Crazy women is the biggest existential threat because it sits above every one of our problems. Ever

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y one of our problems we can't work on because there's somebody who's batshit crazy stopping you from fixing it. And it's the same group of people over and over again: batshit crazy women. Until you can say it out loud you can never fix it. So that's the service that I'm presenting to you. I've got enough arrows in my back that any of the new arrows are just going to hit the other arrows. Kind of…

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