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Back to episode — Episode 2534 CWSA 07/12/24

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Lisa Murkowski, Republican from Alaska. And if you didn't like Lisa Murkowski before, well, let me give you this quote and see if you like her a little better. Quote: "If I were an unpleasant person, I would say it's just so delightful to see them swirl around on this"—meaning the media swirling around on the Biden thing. And she said—oh, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican, said that this…

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Eric, Eric, Eric. Yeah. Does anybody else confirm if you use X that it doesn't come close to giving you both arguments?

Now, let me tell you how to spot the professionals. I suspected this was true, but the news has now confirmed that the trolls that I get—and I imagine this is true for anybody who's got a big account on X—the trolls that I get are only designed to make me not want to use social media. Now, I told you that before it was in the news because you could tell by the pattern. I would look at the pattern and I'd say that doesn't even look like a political opinion that disagrees. That looks like somebody whose only intention is to make my day worse.

And let me tell you how you spot them. Number one, they're always anonymous, of course. So they're anonymous accounts. They have very few followers and followed. That's always a tell. But here's the big one: they hate me. You can tell by the comments. But they follow me. That's unheard of. There are no Democrats who follow me and hate me. That's only a paid troll. The reason they follow me is so that they can be first. They get an alert and they can be first to comment. So the other tell is that they're always first in the comment thing because they're paid. Everybody else will like read something, you know, huh, yeah, maybe I'll compose a little reply, and maybe it takes them 60 seconds. The trolls don't take 60 seconds because they're clearly picking from a script. And they have a script about me. It's very clear that they're all reading the same script because when they come after me, it doesn't matter what my opinion is. They make fun of Dilbert being canceled or one of my marriages or my stepson dying of fentanyl. That's it. So they don't even address the comment, which would take more than a minute. So the speed with which they reply shows that they're taking a—it could be AI, but they're taking a standard template. It's like Adams tweets, pick number two, plug it in, boom. And the real people are still composing.

So if you look in my comments that are really political and look like they might make a difference, the top comment or sometimes the second one will be that troll. And I've seen pictures of the troll operation where they've got countless accounts that they're monitoring and they're just waiting for one of us to post. They're literally monitoring. So there's probably somebody who just monitors me. It's actually a paid job. And as soon as I post, they come in with one of the five or six things that they always say about me that have nothing to do with my point, just to make me feel bad.

Now, the problem is that once you realize that's their game, it doesn't make you feel bad. I just label them as paid trolls so the rest of you can see it so you can enjoy the show anyway.

Musk is suing—I don't know who he's suing. I guess there's this group called GARM that controls 90% of all the ad spending in the United States. And they have allegedly formed some kind of an evil entity that suppresses X. So there's a group in the United States that controls a trillion dollars in ads and has been trying to suppress. And apparently they were successful. So politics spills over into capitalism, and then capitalism goes after the enemies of the political people. And there does seem to be a full-scale attempt to destroy an entire social network because it's Musk. And now Musk is going to sue them, and that'll be interesting.

At the same time, of course, Europe is going after X for what they call disinformation. That's part of the censorship operation that comes out of the United States.

And just in case you're worried about the debt, 30% of all our tax revenues went to service the debt in June. 30% of all your taxes go to service the debt. So look at how much taxes you paid and then say you wouldn't have needed to pay 30% of that if the government had stuck to their budget. So if you don't have capable people, now you know it cost you 30% of all your income—or no, 30% of your taxes were 30% more than they would have been. That's pretty bad. No, that's not even true, is it? I'm getting the numbers wrong. If 30% of your taxes are for servicing the debt, that means 70% are not. So 30 divided by 70 is the percent by which you're paying more taxes or something like that.

All right. Joy Behar is warning people that they just don't understand the risk of Trump. She says, I don't think they understand what's at stake. I really don't. So she tells us what's at stake. N

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ow, thank God we have Joy Behar to tell us what's at stake. She says when you see these two people, Trump the convicted felon is neck and neck with a man who actually saved the economy. What? How did Biden save the economy? By doing what any president would do in that job? I'm pretty sure the American economy saved the American economy. What exactly did Biden do? What part was saving the economy?…

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