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Back to episode — Episode 2661 CWSA 11/16/24

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. Got to walk away. Anyway, Trump has appointed a new press secretary. Her name is Caroline Leavitt. I guess how would you pronounce L-E-A-V-I-T-T? Leavitt or Levitt? Because this will matter to the joke I'm about to make. I'm preparing a dad joke in my mind. It's very amusing but it will depend on you telling me which way to pronounce your name because one way—oh damn it. Some people are saying…

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one of those cases where the deep state is kind of useful. I could be worried about RFK Jr. if I thought he would be working alone and just sitting in the room making his own decisions about stuff. But that's not going to happen. He's going to have an army of scientists and experts who are trying to talk him out of it and pointing him at different studies. And he's going to say stuff like, I see your study but it's not good enough. Show me a good long-term study. So I think we're in good shape there.

I saw Molly Hemingway do a great defense I think it was on Fox News of Matt Gaetz as a choice for attorney general. And this is a good case. So her angle on it is that Gaetz would be the most effective at fighting information ops. And I thought, you know that's true. Matt Gaetz has been one of the most effective best communicators and most aggressive going after all the ops such as the Russia collusion op, the 51 people signing the laptop op, you all the other ops. He's one of the top people going after them. So I agree with that, Molly Hemingway, that having somebody who would fight against the misinformation structure—that feels like something I want.

Now I'm not completely talked out of the idea that maybe Matt Gaetz is not a—let's say maybe it's a plan A but that they have a plan B ready already. In other words they might already have a plan B in case he can't get through for one reason or another. But it sure would be fun if he did. I would sure like to watch it.

Meanwhile over on MSNBC where everybody's a terrible racist, they have this lawyer Maya Wiley on who they put on to defame Pete Hegseth who was picked as defense secretary. And she claims that he's got white supremacist tattoos all over his body. False. 100% false. And she sat there and said it between two white guys who just nodded. They let her say that without any pushback. MSNBC is such garbage.

Then she also said about him he is also a person if he's in the job who'll be having the discussion with Donald Trump about sending the military into communities to police US citizens. Again just some made-up stuff. Will the military be useful in transporting illegal migrants back to their place of origin? Yes, transport. They'll drive them basically. They're chauffeur. I mean not the kind they want because it's going to take them out of the country. But no, it'll be ICE and the people who are hired to do the deportations will do it. Now there's no plan to use the military to police the communities.

Meanwhile Trump is looking at at least considering a fellow named Dr. Casey Means for a key health role in revising our nation's food policies. Hello. So this would include if this happens the doctor would be looking at basically our processed foods and looking at targeting them for either labeled as unhealthy or decreased in our diet in some ways. So they would introduce the cigarette-style warning labels on packaging. And apparently according to the Daily Mail some of these kinds of measures were successful in the United Kingdom. There was a 2018 sugar tax that led to a significant reduction in sugar consumption and prompted manufacturers to reformulate their products. Then this is according to Resist the Mainstream. That's a publication I guess.

Let me tell you how much I love about this. Everything. Everything. Do you remember when people said Trump's a fascist? Well my understanding of a fascist is somebody who works with the big companies almost as if they're on the same team. This is very much targeting the food industry in the United States and not in the way they like. Not in the way they like. So this is exactly what I want my government to do. Now maybe labeling is enough so that I still have choices. You know they label cigarettes but they're still legal. Alcohol is still legal. So I don't know if they need to make any of thi

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s illegal. But yeah, when my government wants to keep me better informed and tell me that the interest rate on this loan is the same as this one and you know what's in the food—yeah I like all that. So I could not be happier about that. That's pure golden age stuff. You don't get that. You don't get this without Trump and without RFK Jr. I think. Meanwhile I saw a story. Sam J over in Twitchy is…

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