Back to episode — Episode 2494 CWSA 06/03/24
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what I think. I think it might be entirely true that half of Americans think he should end his campaign. But do you know what half of Americans also think? Probably half of Americans believe that this should not be a contest between Biden and Trump, wouldn't you agree? Probably half of the country, if you gave them the choice, they'd say, you know, we do love Trump versus Biden, but all things con…
← Previous segment →ump content than Biden. I don't know how that matches with the 10 times more, but okay. And according to an internal TikTok analysis, Trump content beat Biden content by 10 to 1 in likes and 12 to 1 in views. Does that sound real? Do you believe that TikTok is pushing hard for Trump?
Here's one way to explain it, and I don't know if this is enough. Biden is not memeable, but Trump is super memeable. Like the Trump memes are funny and they're interesting. Have you seen the one where Trump is riding the back of a giant golden eagle and the golden eagle picks up Biden from the water like a fish and Trump is like, yeah? Have you seen that one? It is terrific. It's just terrific. And even if it weren't an election, you'd laugh at it because it's so well done. So I just don't know that the left can meme. You know, we've been saying that for years. I think the quality of the meme has got to have a big impact on who views it and likes it. So I would think that because Trump is the most memeable character in the history of characters and Biden is the least memeable character in the history of politicians, at least, you would expect more Trump action. But that there's so much even in what you would imagine would be a more left-leaning vehicle is weird. It does suggest that China maybe is not putting their finger on the scales. Or do you imagine that China is putting their finger on the scales of TikTok because they want Trump to win? Can you think of a reason why China would want Trump to win? Think of a reason for that. I've got one. Why would they want Trump to win?
Now if you're a Trump supporter, you're going to immediately go to, oh, because they can negotiate with him. Right? I don't know. Maybe. Allow me to suggest another possibility. If China is watching the news in America like everybody else, you know, they must have people who are good at English and watching the news and summarizing it for the leaders. I'm sure that's happening in some form. They would be watching the United States grappling with the most controversial character of all time, and it might look like the election of Trump would tear the country apart. So it's entirely possible that from China's perspective, if they believe MSNBC and they believe CNN, at least half of CNN, they might think that the worst thing that could happen to America is for Trump to be reelected because it'll tear the country apart. They might be right. But if you go with the theory that China could make TikTok put their finger on any algorithm and any content they wanted, if you think that there is really control there and if you think they exercised it, the only reason you would exercise it 10 to 1 in favor of Trump, which doesn't sound real to me, I mean it just doesn't sound real, unless it's a thumb on the scale situation. Maybe they think he's bad for America. Maybe. I don't know.
Here's my mini theme for today. Democrats have an idiot problem in leadership. I'm going to give you several examples of idiots in the leadership of Democrats. You know Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock. They were really big on ESG and then he said ESG is really embarrassing us. We better pull back because all the DEI thing completely exploded and embarrassed them. Now he's saying that you need clean energy that isn't intermittent because we're going to need so much for our data centers. Do you know what that means? Pro-nuclear. And maybe get your finger off of all the things that would stop energy from being produced. I think Larry Fink is who I call a smart idiot. If he and I did an IQ test, I think he'd beat me. You know, I think he probably could get into a better school than I could have at the time, etc. So I'm not saying his IQ wasn't high. But with this ESG stuff, we observe him acting like an idiot. Like maybe he didn't understand the implications of what would happen if he made ESG his centerpiece of his thing. But it looks like it all blew up in his face. And I think I could have told him. I th
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ink I could have told him exactly where that would end up. So he's a smart idiot. And I think what causes that is obviously not the smart part because the smart part seems on track. You know, it seems fine. There's something about the gaslighting and the brainwashing that the Democrats get that will make even the smartest person turn into an idiot. But then they have real idiots too, like Maxine…
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