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Back to episode — Episode 2447 CWSA 04/17/24

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cise when you're stressed because stress gives you all this physical and mental ability. So exercise. It's the one thing you can control and it works really well. If you want to get a little extra exercise, come home stressed from work. Real easy to exercise when you're stressed. Real easy. So use it. All right. Stephen King, he posted on X. He said that notice the right wingers want to ban abort…

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zing the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Called the justice a disgrace. You know what would happen if a conservative had done what Toobin did and then had that opinion? They would call him a racist masturbator. Well if a conservative was Jeffrey Toobin he'd be called a racist masturbator. But because he's a Democrat he's described in this news article as a legal affairs journalist. A legal affairs. Do you know it would be a legal affair? Well if you had an affair with somebody's married spouse, you know arguably depending on where you are that could be illegal, technically illegal depending on where you are. But if you're just jerking off on Zoom that's a legal affair. That's completely legal. So he's a legal affairs journalist whacking off on Zoom.

All right. We're going to segue from jacking off to jacking up your economic numbers. That's called a segue. So the IMF, the International Monetary Fund, says that America's recent economic performance is quite impressive. So isn't that great to get an international monetary body to complement the performance of your economy right when Biden is running for president? Oh but there's a second part of it. It's partially the result of the country's unsustainable fiscal practices. Oh that's bad. Unsustainable fiscal practices. Well that's another way to say that we're circling the drain and it's creating a risk for global economies. So in other words we have too much debt and the debt is what makes our economy look artificially good. But it's unsustainable. So really we have an economy that's just perfectly made for an election year to get the incumbent elected. Hey look at this. Look at this economy is better than all the other economies unless you look at the debt. If you look at our debt levels you can plainly see that we're doomed and there's nothing that can change it. Or as Biden says, the best economy in the entire industrial world. Doomed but at the moment good enough to get us to the election. So there's that. So the IMF noticed that we're doomed. I don't know if we're doomed but I don't know how we can handle the debt.

Like I don't even know. Kimbal Musk is already on Tesla's board? Yeah that's weird. So I guess I need some fact checking on that story whether Kimbal's already on the board.

All right. I like Kimbal because he's working on indoor gardening. I think that's the future.

So how are those charges? Let's talk about Justice Gorsuch. He's talking about the January 6 people, not Trump but the people who attended the protest. And those cases are being challenged. And Gorsuch asked questions about whether any of these things would be called obstructing a congressional proceeding because that's what a lot of the people were charged with on January 6, obstructing an official proceeding. So he said would a sit-in at a trial be considered that? Because that's what happened at the Kavanaugh protest. He said with pulling a fire alarm when there's going to be a vote, which is what Representative Bowman did. He said how about hecklers in the crowd, the Palestinian protesters, and how about the mostly peaceful protests from BLM? So basically he gave a bunch of cases that looked like they would be trivial. Pulling a fire alarm, slight delay, you know we'll do it tomorrow, slight delay, that sort of thing.

Well thank you woman voice, very nice of you. Anyway, so it seems like at least the conservative judges might be leaning toward tossing out some of these obstructing justice things. Now if the individuals or let's say their cases are thrown out, the ones who were already convicted, if they get released because the Supreme Court said no this is not obstructing an official proceeding, then that's going to have a big impact on what the Trump case looks like. Don't you think it's going to have a big impact?

But what did we hear today? I just saw this before I got on. That in the Fulton

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County case, the Fani Willis thing, so that's an election interference case. So there's a judge that just threw out six of the charges. So these are charges that are thrown out against Trump. So the first case was about just the protesters. Now I've changed to talk about Trump in the Fulton County. So it's a different case. But the judge threw out conspiracy to commit election fraud, criminal soli…

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