Back to episode — Episode 2653 CWSA 11/08/24
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usk the guy who took 80% of the employees out of Twitter and increased the number of features. He's willing to work for free. He has all the credibility of the public and he can do this thing which desperately needs to be done. Yes yes yes. You know the Democrats are talking to Beyonce. They can't even get Beyonce the same way. And Trump's got people like Naval and Elon Musk and a whole bunch of…
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Well as others have mentioned when Joe Biden addressed the nation after Trump's win we've never seen Joe Biden look happier. You know I saw the comments about it before I saw him and I thought oh you're just being political so you're sort of having fun with it and you're just pretending like he's happy. But when I look at him he will not be any more or less happy than he ever is. He'll be spewing the F people hoax etc. And then I watched it. He is happier than I've ever seen him. He couldn't even freaking hide it. He couldn't even hide how happy he is. And that to me that's hilarious. Hilarious.
But here's the thing that's deprogramming his side as I mentioned earlier. Imagine you're a Democrat and you supported Biden and you especially supported him because he ran on the fine people story which was a hoax. But if you didn't know it you thought my God I can't have Trump in charge. He called neo-Nazis fine people. Now Biden said it. Said that Trump said it but of course it never happened. He said the opposite. He disavowed them. And so Biden runs for office because he's running against Hitler. And then it's the moment Hitler gets elected. Here's Biden: ah it's a good day. Oh you know peaceful transfer of power. How you doing? Hey you in the front. Is that the way you act when Hitler comes to power?
It is so obvious and it has to be obvious to the Democrats themselves that their leadership was not just lying but it was the big lie. Yeah the very thing that they were accusing Trump of, the big lie, was at Trump's Hitler. And they backed off of the lie the very minute they had to become consistent with their idea of a peaceful transfer of power. You know they realized they were in a trap. They had to act like that was something believable anyway.
There are two real world, maybe three, three real world things that you need to know. Number one: all data is fake. All data is fake. That matters if it doesn't matter or if it's just some engineering calculation that might be real but in the political realm it's all fake. So to those of you who keep sending me the graph of all those alleged missing votes — and by the way there might be some missing votes. I'm not saying there isn't. What I'm saying is that if you believed data in the middle of the fog of the election war that was a mistake. And again I have to be careful. It could be that the information you have is correct that there are missing votes. But if you believed it because you saw a graph or you saw a social media post about it in the middle of the fog of the election then you made a mistake. You made a mistake. It was too soon to be confident about that. Now that doesn't mean it's not true. It doesn't mean that we'll never find any problems with this election. That part I don't know. I'm saying that if you have confidence that you're sure those 20 million — now it's like everything else is fake. All data is fake. This is probably more of it. We'll find out.
Here's another real world update. I said this before but it fits in my list well. When Elon Musk or RFK Jr. talk about getting rid of parts of the government that you think are protecting you like FDA or CDC or anything else they don't necessarily mean that the government doesn't do that work. It may be that you've got two departments and it makes more sense that it all happens in one right? So then you're getting rid of a department but you're not getting rid of the thing. So if you do what Elon Musk would do because of his engineering mind or what somebody like Naval would do they wouldn't say how do we tweak this thing the way it is. They'd say if we were building it from scratch what would it look like? And if the way it is now is not the way it would look like if you were to build it ideally from scratch well then maybe you make some big changes.
The other thing is that the deportation question. I keep watching Republican after Republican falling off a cliff because the Democrat media is saying this. So how in the world can Trump deport 20 million people? It would be chaos. You know the families would be broken up and all these things. Let me describe the real world. The real world is where you scare people about what you're going to do so you can get done what you need to do. So Trump is saying he's going to deport 20 million people is exactly like what he said the first time. And the first time he ran I told you all don't worry about that. He's not going to deport 20 million people. He's going to get rid of the criminals if he can. He's going to seal up the border as well as he can. And if you just get the flow down to some reasonable level we'll be fine. Then it goes from a big problem to a small problem. It doesn't really need to be 100% solved. It just needs to go from a big problem to a small one.
So sure enough Trump gets in. He does a good job of closing at least the flow and rounding up a bunch of criminals. And by the end of his term how many of you were saying damn it if only he'd sent back 10 million more people? Not me. I didn't miss the deportations. And so I assume in the real world because this is the way the real world always works that Trump will focus like a laser on the criminals. He will put all the resources on the Venezuelan gangs and it will take four years to get rid of them. And if he seals the border at the same time and ends all these amnesty things and maybe he says something like if you came in illegally during this time you can't vote or you'll never be able to vote or something. You're going to say oh well but we still have 20 million people living on the streets who are migrants. And by the end of four years Trump will say no we don't because they all got absorbed. It turns out that they wanted to be here and there were employers who wanted them to work. And so that problem which is gigantic at the moment and an existential threat to the country at the moment would almost instantly become a medium-sized problem the moment you shut the border and you focus on getting rid of the criminals. When you get rid of the criminals and if you successfully kept the border nice and tight for four years do you think the country is going to say you failed because there's still 20 million people who are working for companies and paying taxes that you should have sent back? Probably not. I don't know anybody who would really care.
So I think that the Democrats are playing this game where they know full well that if you talk tough the people who were thinking of coming in during the Trump administration will stay home. Don't you think he's already caused people to stay home? Of course he has. He's probably on the verge of ending three or four wars just on the threat of him coming into office. And he's almost certainly going to reduce the number of people. There might be a surge of people trying to get in before he takes office but there should be sort of automatic decrease in people willing to come in after some initial surge.
So those are your real world updates. In the real world you can re-engineer. You don't have to just get rid of stuff. And in the real world you don't have to deport 20 million people and you can make everybody happy. That's the weird part. You can make me completely happy. But at the moment I'm thinking you got 20 million too many people. You need to do something about those 20 million people. But I'll be happy if they're working and you get rid of the criminals and close up the border. I can live with that.
There's a question about whether the Federal Reserve should report to the president and whether the president should be able to fire that person. There's been a long history of independence and I'm in favor of independence because there should be maybe some process for removing a Federal Reserve head. Maybe there is like an impeachment or something. But I think it should only be in an emergency. I don't think that the polit
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ician's opinion of what the interest rate should be should be somehow higher priority than the Fed's because the Fed has that one job. But the politician is also trying to get reelected. So you don't want the person who wants to get reelected to say hey lower those interest rates when really we'd be better off with holding them higher for a little bit longer. So I don't think I want Trump to have…
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