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Back to episode — Episode 2454 CWSA 04/24/24

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ch but it's hard to feel that it's purely a policy thing and not something much much worse. Anyway so we'll keep an eye on that. I don't know if that'll become the summer riots but I suspect it will. I just think it might backfire. It might be the summer riots that they wish they hadn't instigated. And I remind you that there's no such thing as spontaneous organic protests. That's really not a thi…

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ever imagine. Put yourself in their position. You're a single woman and you've been told and you believed it that an actual Hitler was coming into office to take away your democracy and I don't know turn you into baby makers or something. Yeah that would of course that would make you mentally ill. Why wouldn't it? So I'm not sure there's anybody to blame except the propaganda people on the Democrat side have destroyed the mental health of their own team. The Republicans were able to withstand the propaganda. Do you know why? Can you tell me why the propaganda that the Democrats completely mentally disturbed their own people, why did it have little to no effect on Republicans? Tell me you know the answer. Why did it have little or no effect on Republicans? No not because Republicans have more men although they do. It's not that. Critical thinking? No they get both sides? No. News? Better news? No. They knew it was fake? No. Guns? No. BS detector? No. Media? Okay I must be the worst teacher in the history of teachers. I literally just gave you an entire lesson on why this is happening. Republicans have an identity so their identity is completely protective against Democrat propaganda. Democrat propaganda doesn't work with somebody who identifies as not a Democrat. If you identify as Republican their propaganda just bounces off you. You don't need better news and better sources. You don't need to see both sides. You don't need better critical thinking. But I think it's humorous that you gave yourself all those pats on the back.

All right if you could take a moment just take a moment to think about the comments. You were watching the comments at the same time you were all patting yourself on the back for your advantages. Well it's probably because we have better critical thinking. Yeah that's probably because we see the news on both sides. Maybe it's because we're not mentally ill. Maybe it's because men are smarter than women and women are emotional and there are more men in Republicans. Did you see how you just immediately ran to compliment yourselves and do you know what you complimented yourselves on? Fill in the blanks. What did you compliment yourself on? Your identity. Yeah you basically gave me answers that went to your identity. So your identity is you see both sides, you're logical, you're not driven by emotional spirits, you see things as they really are. That's your identity. That's not thinking. That's not reasoning. That's not facts and data. That was your identity. This might be the best lesson I've ever given because I didn't realize that you would all fall into this trap. I didn't plan it this way but is anybody having a moment? You're seeing this right? You're seeing it in real time that the persuasion rule that identity is everything and do something differently never works for anybody. You just watched. You solidified around your identity with no regard to the facts. With no regard to the facts. But you just complimented yourself at how awesome you are in

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your identity. Now if that sounded like a criticism it shouldn't be. You should take it as a mind-opening moment because as I've told you before even though I identify you know as far left of some of your opinions I prefer you as humans. So my audience are the people I would want to be around if I were ever in trouble. I would want you guys to show up first. You know what I mean? You know if my ca…

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