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Back to episode — Episode 2514 CWSA 06/23/24

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all microdosing. You know why the sale of alcohol seems to be going down? Microdosing even more so than I think than marijuana. That's what I think. I think the microdosing is cutting into the alcohol far more than anything else. All right. Here's a funny story. Over in California, there's a funding bill that includes $12 million for reparations. Now you say to yourself, $12 million? I thought th…

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som, clever man that he is, realized there's something between yes and no, which is we'd better study this. And then after you studied it, very good studying you did there, but you know, I've got a couple more questions. You ought to go study that. And then the reparations people realizing they had him by the balls said, "How about you pay us to study it more?" And then knowing it's not his own money, Newsom thought, okay, if I pay you to study it, which an objective observer would call a bribe to go away and shut up for a while, and I could pay the bribe with other people's money, and I could sell it as not a bribe, but rather an important funding toward making the world a better place once it's studied properly.

So yes, apparently every time, let me just say this, an obvious statement. Wherever there's a reparations study committee, there are some grifters who figured out they can get white people to give them lots of money to make it look like they're studying something. I kind of wish I were in that game because it looks like a really, really good scam. Oh yeah, if you don't pay me $24 million, I don't know how I'm going to study these reparations, but I'll certainly call you a racist every day you're in office for not having a reparations committee that's properly funded.

And now the other states are like, wait a minute. Are you telling me the activists are getting paid to pretend that they're studying reparations? They're all going to have their own reparations study force. It's the obvious way to make them go away and shut up about it. They're just being bribed. So it's a legal way to bribe people just to shut up until elections are over. And it works. So anytime you say that Gavin Newsom doesn't have game, he's got game. He's not the one I want to be my president, but don't underestimate that guy. He's got some game. This is well played.

All right. Apparently there's a new study that says there's a trillion dollar problem. Oh great. Another trillion dollar problem. We don't have enough of those. Where there's too much lead in the yards of people's homes. So 25% of the US yards have unsafe levels of lead.

Now what I wondered was if there was any correlation to any areas that have more lead. It turns out that you're going to have more lead where there's older infrastructure. So wherever there's older infrastructure. So that would include basically all of the Democrat cities. So New York, Detroit, Baltimore, yo

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u know, older infrastructure. Now what is the effect of having too much lead in your environment? Well the big one is it lowers your IQ. You see where this is heading? The Democrat cities have the oldest infrastructure. The old infrastructure is correlated with more lead in your environment. More lead in the environment makes you stupid. I think we just figured out what's going on. Yeah. The Demo…

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