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Back to episode — Episode 2664 CWSA 11/19/24

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o you've got four states. They have some leaders saying that they're going to resist immigration enforcement. And my question is this. How much can they interfere before they go to jail? What exactly does it look like when they interfere? They interfere on what level? Now it'd be one thing if they tell their local police you know don't talk to the feds. That wouldn't be surprising and maybe that'…

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control the election.

Now do you remember was it Dr. Robert Epstein I think who said that Google could change an election by quite a few points? What would happen if Google had not been influencing the election and mainstream media had not been trying to influence the election and the fake polls had not been trying to influence the election? How much would it, how much could Trump have won by if you took those biasing factors out? I don't know. Maybe more.

I'll tell you the thing that is surprising me the most is that Democrats are confessing failure and I'm wondering if that's because they don't have current leadership. If they had leadership wouldn't they be selling a narrative instead? So if there was somebody who could say hey Democrats I am your leader you should give this messaging and they'd say something like well the election was actually kind of close if you look at you know the seventy some million versus seventy some million is kind of close. But you're not seeing that so much. You're actually seeing Democrats saying we got our asses kicked. We lost as bad as you can lose. We better look at what we're doing to see if it's wrong. I've never seen this. I've never seen anything like that before.

Now why do you think it is that they're accepting? I think it's the lack of leadership isn't it? Because if they had a leader the leader would be telling them to hang tight, stay strong, don't admit any mistakes, kind of immediately regroup. But there's nothing like that happening. They are just floundering and flapping around and every day that I think that I will be done enjoying how much they don't understand why they lost I'm surprised because once again another full day of being entertained by Democrats who try to explain to themselves and to others why they didn't win and they're not even close. They just don't seem to understand really anything. It's like they have been around for the last eight years or something like they just landed on the planet. It's kind of weird.

Now the reason of course is that their information silo was completely fake and has been fake for probably a decade at least if not forever. So they had no idea what reality looked like. Imagine, can you imagine the size of the mind if you thought that the Trump supporters were a minority of the country and like a really serious minority and then you found out that they literally outnumbered you and that all the Hitler blaming and the fascist stuff and the deplorable stuff didn't make any difference. Like imagine waking up to that and your whole reality is upside down now because you don't know if you're one of the bad guys. And I have some bad news for you Democrats. I don't mean this as just like a throwaway comment insult. You have been the bad guys. I don't think it's all intentionally like on purpose. I believe that the media information landscape was so distorted by

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a few bad actors that you honestly thought the world was a different place than what it is and then you acted accordingly. Now I think that Democrats in the information bubble that they were in were acting for the greatest good. That's what it looks like to me. It looks like their intentions were entirely based on the greater good and if you listen to them talk that's the way they talked. You know…

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