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Back to episode — Episode 2659 CWSA 11/14/24

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summarize all of this news, once again there's somebody who does not have a photograph, has no personal firsthand knowledge of anything. And no, I don't believe a single thing about the UAP reports. Not a single thing. I do not believe there is an alien intelligence. I do not believe there's an ancient civilization of beings that are in the ocean and they've got crafts that sometimes come out of t…

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ee let's say a senator who does an interview on the news, even if you don't agree with them and even if you think they're lying, you come away thinking, okay that's a pretty smart person. You know I don't trust him but smart. And you see a scientist and you say, ah I'm not sure I believe all that but obviously you're smart. And generally speaking public figures who have reached some level, they're usually pretty smart. But whenever I would watch the generals who would come on, let's say during the Trump administration even before that, when they were done I would think to myself, why don't they come off as smart? Like why does General Milley just doesn't look like even a Democrat senator. Or he just doesn't come off as smart. And I won't name names but there are several others that fall in that category where they're not just not smart, they seem almost aggressively dumb. And not because of their politics because they don't really get political most of the time. So I'm not even judging them on politics. I'm just demeanor and presentation and you know just the vibe. It's like you just don't seem that smart.

So if you add that to the fact that you know there's wokeness that's infected them and their political appointees, in many cases they didn't get all the way there based on talent. It was maybe politics. It's good to see that there's going to be a tough look at which ones to remove.

I would argue that lawfare against Trump may have ended. And now that the Republicans are firmly in charge I would expect that there will not be more lawfare against Republicans. What we hope, well I guess we don't all hope this but I hope, what I hope is that there is not any gross lawfare against Democrats. I want to say clearly and loudly and publicly I do not favor any revenge lawfare. None. I do favor really going after real crimes. And to me it seems there are some pretty obvious real crimes that have not been addressed.

So if Matt Gaetz, as you all know by now Matt Gaetz has been nominated, we don't know if he can get confirmed. Even if there's a recess appointment I think there's some question about that. But I do love th

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e fact that whoever is going to be the AG, whether it's Matt Gaetz or not, it's going to end lawfare at least against Republicans. Now I think we have an obligation and a responsibility. It's a Spider-Man problem. Republicans now have the power and the Republican voters I argue have power over the government. That is not the case the other way. I don't believe the public has power over the Democr…

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