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Back to episode — Episode 2670 CWSA 11/25/24

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hat is so powerful, this first impression stuff. So by doing a very capable and early and aggressive staffing, and much better than the first time he did it most people would say, it gives a real good impression. So even people who might not have voted for him said, you know, it looks like he's getting some work done. And that is so good persuasion-wise. Getting the first two months right is like…

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ime. And one of them, remember what I always told you was our big advantage, the big advantage in America that I don't think anybody can match, is we will can anything that needs to get canned and we will do it brutally. We'll do it quickly and we'll never look back if it needs to get shitcanned. Ask an American. We don't save things because they're old and special. We don't do it because that's the way we do it. We don't do it because that's tradition. We don't do it because it's classical. We don't do it because that's how Grandma did it. We will break anything if it needs to be broken.

Our government needed to be broken. It needed to be broken hard. And I don't think anybody from other countries, I think other countries said, oh man you're in trouble. You've got, you're too locked in, you're never going to be able to break this. But turns out that only the Democrats had to be broken and Trump broke them and then everything else is possible. That's where we are.

So if you're in the UK and you see that the U.S. found a way to break its way out of an almost impossible situation, that's got to be inspiring and it's got to make you want to switch out your own leader as soon as possible. So I think it's a Trump effect. You know obviously they have real serious problems so the Trump effect wouldn't have any effect if they didn't have real problems. And that's my message to the UK. Hey UK, I don't consider the UK an American ally anymore. Now it's not up to me but Nigeria's listening to me so maybe you should too.

So what I'm saying, so maybe the people in the UK would rather be allies with the United States. And the reason I say they're not our ally is they seem to be working actively against Trump when they were helping Kamala Harris. That's not cool. You're not allowed to go do politics on our property. Not cool. You can't be our ally if you're sending in people to work for the election of one candidate. Nope, not an ally. And if you're working toward the censorship of American platforms such as X, definitely not an ally. Now that doesn't mean you're an enemy but you can't be an ally if you're interfering at that level. All right, is that clear? If anybody from the UK is listening, you're not my ally now. Our government may say differently but I don't think we should treat you like an ally. We should treat you like somebody who's often on our side but no, you're not an ally. And any special relationship, I'm not in favor of it. I think we have to treat you more like an adversary that sometimes agrees with what we want as well.

So yes, you need to change out your government for your own benefit. It doesn't make a difference to me but for your own benefit you need to change out your government and then we'll talk about this special relationship which I'd love to get back. The more special relationships we have the better. So no, you don't get to be our ally just because you used to be. Remember what I said, Americans can break anything that needs to be broken. You know that special relationship thing we had, we broke it. It's broken. If you want to fix it we're all good with that. I think everybody here would be happy with that but consider it broken. So fix that.

How about Mexico? Let's talk about the Trump effect in Mexico. So apparently Trump had a phone call with the new Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum. I just love saying that. The new Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum. If you had told me, do you think the president of Mexico soon will be a Jewish woman? I would have said probably not, probably not. But here we are.

And she is signaling according to Gateway Pundit, she's signaling significant policy changes that almost certainly have to do with Trump incoming. And the policy changes might be something about closing the border and taking people back and working to stop the flow of fentanyl, etc. Now why would she be so flexible? Trump's not even in office. Why would she be so flexible? Well I've got a few suggestions. I didn't know about this till today but did you know that on the campaign trail Trump had threatened to reveal the Mexican government's connections to the cartel if they don't do what we want? How many of you knew that he did that? I never heard of that for some reason or did I forget it?

Now is that perfect? Let me describe that. That's perfect. Yes, he's actually going to blackmail them. Remember I kept saying that it feels like the cartels in Mexico are blackmailing American politicians. Like they must be blackmailing them because nothing makes sense. So Trump says once I'm in power and I know exactly what our CIA knows about everything, if you don't want me to make this public you better do everything we want. So he just took over the Mexican government by threatening them and it worked.

So I saw something that said that the fentanyl problem is suddenly decreased already. Turns out that the Sinaloa cartel is kidnapping and killing fentanyl makers including the ones in their own cartel because they don't want the pressure from Trump. Let me say that again. The Sinaloa cartel is kidnapping and killing their own fentanyl makers because they told them not to do fentanyl anymore but some are still doing it so they're killing them because they don't need the risk.

Because what did Trump say? Same thing I said. Send the special forces in and wipe out the cartels or negotiate. But you don't negotiate until you've told them how you're going to destroy them completely in a way that's all completely credible. And it's completely credible. So it looks like, oh and then also Trump had threatened massive tariffs on their car manufacturing which would, the economy of Mexico would, he actually do it? Would he make good on the threat of massive tariffs on the Mexican automobile industry? Yes. Yes, that is a threat. That's not just talk. He absolutely had the power to do it or will have the power to do it and he means it.

So he threatens their entire economy credibly. Credibly. This is the important part. If anybody else had said this you'd say well Biden's not really going to put tariffs on their entire car economy. Trump will and they know he will. Trump said he'd bring in the special forces and wipe out the cartels and the cartels are like, oh well we're not in the fentanyl business anymore. We barely even do cocaine. We're not in the fentanyl business. Why? Because when Trump said we'll send in special forces they believed it because he would or he could. And when Trump said we will reveal your connection to the cartel, did they believe that he might do that? Yes they do. You don't have to be a mind reader to know yes they believe he might do that.

So which of these three things were unavailable to other politicians? Well arguably they all could have done it but there's only one person who could do it and make sure it worked. Trump. Why? Because he's Trump. Trump's greatest asset is he's Trump and everybody knows what a Trump is. He's going to figh

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t to the last dying breath. Trump. He's not going to take any from countries he doesn't need to take from. Trump. He's going to do what's good for America first. Trump. He's going to negotiate hard. Trump. And if he needs to bend a rule, if he needs to push somebody too hard, if he needs to threaten, if he needs to violate a few norms, Trump. It's so powerful the persuasive brand that he's created…

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