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Back to episode — Episode 2553 CWSA 08/01/24

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t together with some top potential terrorists from Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen and then they're all going to be in the same place. Well I've got a little security advice for the group. You should really think about Zoom. Have you heard of it? Yeah yeah I wouldn't really go to the same location because I don't know if you've heard but Israel's kind of pissed. They're a little bit pissed off and I don't…

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out of the other one with a few punches and the other one just gave up and took off her helmet and said goodbye I'm not going to do this.

Now let me tell you all the things I think about this. Boxing is the stupidest sport. I never want to see boxing in the Olympics or anywhere else. Why is this a sport? Punching people in the head until they get brain damage. Why is that a sport? Now if it's going to be a sport why do I care who punches anybody in the head and gives them brain damage? I don't. You're all idiots if you go into boxing unless it's your only way out of poverty or something. So I mean I certainly understand Mike Tyson yeah or if you're like a great athlete or something and it's really your gift I can see why you do it but we really shouldn't encourage boxing.

Now I know what you're going to say but Scott be more manly be more like the 300. I get it. I understand why you like it but if you're going to like boxing I don't think you should be concerned that a woman got the shit beat out of her by somebody somebody thinks is a biological male. Boxing is about big people and better boxers beating the out of other people. Why do you care who they beat up? Now I would think that the smart people placed their bets on the boxer who was far more likely to be victorious and just made some money on it. Everybody who was in that ring wanted to be there. The woman who was always a woman wanted to be there. Now of course you didn't want to be fighting somebody who was so mismatched but I don't know you get into that business somebody's going to punch you too hard you're going to have to live with it. I don't care. Don't care a bit actually.

Breitbart News is reporting there's a poll that says 72% of Americans oppose electric vehicle mandates but they believe that Kamala Harris supports them which is truish. The Biden administration wants to phase out gas cars. So that looks essentially like a mandate and I don't know if Kamala Harris has updated that opinion yet or changed it. I don't think she's going to change it. So that seems like a really strong attack vector for Trump and he's used it also.

Breitbart: Most voters say Kamala Harris supports the open borders but by a solid majority the public is against it. 68% of voters oppose the open borders and nearly half of Democrats, 49% of Democrats, and 85% of Republicans. And I ask you who are the people who are in favor of open borders? That's only stupid people right? Can we be honest? If you're in favor of open borders you're either stupid or you hate the country or your relatives haven't come in yet. I mean I suppose there's some self-interest involved but if you were just an ordinary citizen looking at the news and you didn't have a personal involvement you'd have to be just stupid to be in favor of open borders. Like literally just stupid.

So is it because they don't know what the issue is? Maybe they just are not informed what the issue is or maybe the brainwashing is so good that half of Democrats are like oh yeah open that border. Well I don't believe that. I don't believe that half of all Democrats are literally stupid but they're saying something that is so. Is that just the brainwashing?

Now if there's one thing I like to say that most of you don't believe, your intelligence does not protect you from brainwashing. Do you all know that? I hear people say that only dumb people can get brainwashed. No. As a professional, well I'll say trained hypnotist, I can tell you that smart people are really easy to hypnotize. Do you know why? Because they're confident. The more confident you are the easier you are to hypnotize. If somebody's afraid oh no you might take over my brain then they put up their defenses but people who are smart think well you're not going to take over my brain let's just see how this goes. Very easy to hypnotize. Yeah that's very consistent by the way. It's one of the few things that you can really depend on to be predictive. Smarter they are the easier they are to hypnotize. So that's probably what's happening to half of the Democrats now.

My frame on all this is that this is a brainwashing competition and that the brainwashers on the left are fighting the brainwashers on the right but on the left they're organized. On the left it's more of a populous situation so there's also some brainwashing but it's almost like people brainwash themselves on the right. In other words somebody will see a post on X and they'll say oh that's interesting then they'll do their own research find more people who claim that conspiracy theory is true and effectively they brainwash themselves by going down the rabbit trail of something that maybe turns out to be false. However half the time it turns out to be true. I don't know what the actual ratio is of conspiracy theories that turned out to be 100% true but at least half would you agree with that? I mean jokingly we say all of them turn out to be true but in reality half maybe 50% turn out to be true. So whatever is happening on the Republican side is also a whole bunch of people believing things that are not true but not because somebody told them with a purpose of hypnotizing them. It was people who thought something was true and then other people got convinced it was true. Confirmation bias basically. And that's very different. The left is a massive brainwashing machine.

Now I said this on the post and I don't remember if I said it live so I'll say it live. You need to know this fact to understand the world. Are you ready for this? This is one fact you should never forget. It's not obvious and you're going to disagree when you hear it but think about it and it'll sink in. You ready? No government, whether a democratic form or a dictator, no government of any kind ever can survive a free press that does a good job. Can't be done. Every government has to control their press to survive as a government. No exceptions. America, Canada, pick Europe, pick a country that you think would never do that. Yes they are doing that. Different ways.

Now if you're a dictator you just say if you do bad stories I'll put you in jail. So the dictators have the easy way to do it. How do you think we do it in the United States? Well let's say you're an owner of a big media enterprise whatever it is. You could be the CEO or you could be the owner if you just own it outright and your job is to talk to politicians and get the stories and then the politicians say we're never going to talk to you unless you're kind of good to us. And then they say oh I can't really be in the news business if I can't even talk to people so they won't even talk to me. I'll

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never even get an interview with the presidential candidate unless I play ball a little bit. All right I'll play ball a little bit. Then the CIA contacts you and says you know you've heard a story that's kind of bad for the United States. It'd really be good if you were a patriot if you kind of didn't tell that story. And then the publisher or the CEO says oh no we are a news organization that is…

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