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Back to episode — Episode 2579 CWSA 08/28/24

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, you're probably looking at genius if it happens more than once. So now this little bit feels a little like genius but maybe desperation too. Because you could have them at the same time. I think it's obvious that Harris cannot win a debate against Trump and I would think that the Democrats know that. But what they could do is make Trump look like a bully. What they could do is give Kamala a who…

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l right, but from these three, if Dan Bongino tells you something doesn't smell right in the domain he knows about, I'm sure listening to that. So and I think it's like the Telegram CEO story. You'll never know. I don't think there's much any chance at all that we'll ever know the truth of what happened with that guy, that Thomas Crooks assassin guy.

Well James Carville was on I think it was CNN and he was talking about RFK Jr. and he said that RFK Jr. should be locked up in a mental institution, has no business being on the street. What is that? That would be called projection and gaslighting. RFK Jr. doesn't have any mental problems. Are you kidding me? He's the most reasonable person you'll ever hear. Why would Carville have to say that? Well because he's part of a party that has a massive mental health problem. And some of us have noticed that the real problem doesn't seem to be politics. There is a massive mental health problem and the specific mental health problem appears to be related to this dark triad, you know narcissism and some other things. And what they love to do if they have that particular mental situation is to project, which is blame other people for what they are or what they're doing, and to gaslight, which is different from lying. I like to explain this a lot. Gaslighting is telling you that something you're looking at directly isn't happening. That's not just saying that yesterday when you weren't there I did something. That lie you can't tell if it's true or not. That's just a lie. But if somebody's looking at something directly and you say it's not there and it's just obviously it's there, that's gaslighting because it makes them feel like am I crazy if you pull it off. So this is gaslighting and I think that's pretty much all they have left is accusing Republicans of doing what Democrats are doing and vice versa. So that's an example of that.

Kamala Harris also once compared policing, just policing, to lynching and Jim Crow. And now she can't stop bragging about how strong she is on law enforcement. That would be gaslighting because we know for sure that she's not super strong about policing and she's telling you it's the opposite. So when you know something's true that she's not the one who is really for policing and then she tells you but I'm the one who's really for policing, that's gaslighting. All right, and it will work because Democrats don't get real news. They only see the fake news that's in their silo.

Here's some news. Well Kennedy was talking to Tucker Carlson and it made quite a bit of news here. So he said he was asked to be on the president's transition team. They would be the ones who select the people who become part of the administration. I kind of love this but I know it's going to cause some trouble within the Republican party because the Republicans are going to say wait a minute why are you picking these people who are not lifelong Republicans that we can trust? And then Kennedy will say but they're really smart and capable and they're not super political so these are the ones you want. And then the Republicans will say I don't know that one person when they were in college once said something I don't like. So I'm leaning toward this because I do think that Kennedy could be important in finding people who are brave and not political and have the right priorities. That would be kind of fun. So I don't see Kennedy being the one who does the vetting. I see him being part of a vetting system in which he might pick an ex-Democrat or a current Democrat for a few things. I wouldn't worry about that. Looks positive to me.

Tucker asked RFK Jr. if he would ever be willing, if asked, to become Trump's CIA director. I love that question. And he said yes I would. What? Yes I would. But I would never get a Senate confirmation. He said he would never get a Senate confirmation because the intelligence agencies would just force the Senate not to confirm him. Do you believe that? I do. I believe that even if you were asked to be the CIA director the CIA people would contact their Congress people they own and say don't vote for this and then they wouldn't. And there's no way they could become head of CIA. I believe that's true. I totally believe that.

Kennedy says that the reason the Democrats now hate free speech, or at least it looks like it because they're trying to suppress free speech in every possible way they can, he says it's because the party does not believe in the people and that they're making Elon Musk a villain because he's providing free speech. And he says quote if you don't believe in free speech it means because you don't trust the people. I disagree with that. I don't think that's what's going on. I don't think that the Democrat leadership even thinks about the people. I'm not even sure that's one of the variables on their top 10. I think this purely about people keeping their power and staying in their jobs and making money. I think all the free speech stuff is purely a power play. Has nothing to do with trusting the people. But I like the fact that he puts his trust in the people. I just hope that he doesn't lose sight of his practical evil sensing part of his brain anyway.

So the DNC has apparently filed a lawsuit against the Georgia election board to block their new rule. So the Democrats don't want Georgia to clean up the accuracy of their voter rolls. I mentioned that before. What would be their reason? Only one reason. There's only one reason you would vote against cleaning up your voter rolls. There's not a second reason. You all would agree there's not even a second reason that's offered because what it's probably just word soup. It's nothing that even makes sense. So there's that.

Here's something else. RFK Jr. said in the Tucker interview he was originally not interested in working with Trump but his wife Cheryl asked him to hear Trump out. Now I saw Raheem Kassam saying that on X. I haven't seen the news story itself but do you think that's true? Do you think it was Cheryl who asked him to hear Trump out? So you know weren't you wondering like how that marriage works? Weren't you? You were right. You're like how's that work? It seems like they're just too different. I don't see how in the world they can reconcile that. But if this is true, and by the way RFK Jr. has shown no propensity to lie about anything that I've seen, so the fact that he says it's true seems very likely it's true. Just the fact he's credible. If that is true then that suddenly puts his wife in a whole different frame and a positive one. Not because she might be just got a message from Zuby. That's interesting. I'll have to contact him later. So yeah anyway so it makes me think that his wife Cheryl is maybe a more complicated person than the news had indicated and more supportive and maybe more wise. But clearly she's supportive and wise if this is right and I think it is.

Nicole Shanahan, RFK Jr.'s VP running mate while he was running, put on a Venn diagram which is funny because you know Venn diagrams. But it showed a Venn diagram of Occupy Wall Street, that would be the Democrats who didn't like large corporations, and the Tea Party, which was Republicans who didn't like big government. And she says that her movement, if you can call it that, is the intersection. So the intersection of people who don't like big government and the people who don't like big corporations is when the big government and the big corporations are colluding with each other. And I thought wow that just hits it perfectly. You know you could call it fascism but then nobody knows what that word means. But if you show it in the Venn diagram you're like oh yeah the big corporations have too much power but some like that. The big government has too much power but other people are happy with that. But when you look at the intersection, when the two of them are working together, that the big corporations are bribing the government and the government's doing stuff with the big corporations that you don't like, it is when they work together that it's a problem. And that's where we can all come together. How about less of that?

Well you heard the story about RFK Jr. allegedly, I think it's true, he used a chainsaw to cut off the head of a dead whale and put it on his car and he tried to take it home and it was oozing whale juice. And I guess he had some fascination with skulls and he was going to do something to get a whale skull, which I kind of love because I mean the whale was dead and a huge whale skull, like if you could get a whale skull and clean it up and put it on a display in your house, how cool would that be? I mean seriously if you had a giant whale skull and you had some way to display it it'd be kind of cool. So I don't know what he was up to but it doesn't matter. It was just something he wanted to do.

So Axios is reporting that there's now this environmental advocacy group that wants him investigated because it might be illegal to transport a dead mammal's skull. So there must be some law that says you can't transport a marine mammal skull. Come on. Come on. Who even knew that was a law? Come on. So

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I think it's not only fascinating that somebody tried to transport a dead whale's head. I find it fascinating that there's a law that covers that specific situation. But even more ironic, here it comes, here it comes. Remember this was an environmental advocacy group that was going after him. So is it ironic that an environmental advocacy group would turn themselves into garbage? I don't even thin…

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