Back to episode — Episode 2682 CWSA 12/07/24
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somebody's balloon or it's just somebody's drone they're flying around. But today I wake up and there's like videos from the East Coast, videos from the West Coast, videos from Argentina I think a few other places in which there were these glowing orbs doing things in sequence. In one case they seem to be going into the ocean. And remember my main theme for today is that all of the news is either…
← Previous segment →g in some kind of coordinated way etc. But the other possibility that's more exciting is that there might be some Chinese tanker ship you know off the coast of America and they're doing testing. You know every once in a while they'll release a dozen drones and watch the response from America and then maybe America knows that's what's happening or suspects that's what's happening and they don't want to give away the response so maybe they're letting them do it to think that we don't have a response but maybe we do. I don't know. I'm not buying that. So I think that's a little too much to accept. So I'm going to go with the ones that are over American bases are just our own technology because of course we're doing advanced drone coordinated attacks. Of course we are. Every modern country is working on that right now. So obviously there should be a whole bunch of American drones practicing military stuff above bases. It's the most obvious thing I would expect to see if everything is working the way it should. But the ones in other countries and the other videos they might be just fake videos. So I think it might be a combo of American stuff that's perfectly safe to Americans and some fake videos from other places and other times and stuff like that. That's my best guess but I don't know.
So Taylor Lorenz continues to get in trouble. I've tried every day to not do a story about her because she's always in the news and it's always some ridiculous story about something she said or believes and other people want to mock her and it never felt like there was enough meat to it for me to talk about her. She was just sort of a character in social media and the news that people like talking about. Wasn't really enough for me. But I'm going to talk about her today because she made a little news and I'm just going to read the quote because the exact wording matters.
So TMZ was talking to her and TMZ challenged and said you said people wonder why we want these executives dead. Now the interpretation of that is that Taylor Lorenz understands why somebody would want to kill a healthcare insurance executive which would be too far for a public figure. That would be too far because if you say you understand it that's just one step from condoning it. So that's too much for a public figure. So TMZ I think by the way I always have respect for TMZ. I've told you the story but once there was fake news about me some years ago TMZ was the only ones who called to ask me if it was true and I said no it's not true here's the context and then they didn't run a story about it. They were the only ones who fact checked a rumor about me by calling me and saying is that true? Oh no that's not true. So I like TMZ and I like that they're pushing back.
So here's what Taylor Lorenz said. She said I'm with the people. It is natural to wish that the people who run those systems would suffer the same fate as your loved one. Am I going to shed tears or have a lot of empathy for somebody who has facilitated the deaths of thousands of innocent Americans? Yikes. Yikes.
Now if this were just her weird little Taylor Lorenz opinion then I wouldn't be talking about it because that's what I've ignored up till now. It's just her opinion so I ignore it. But this isn't just her opinion. I think in this case she's doing something useful meaning that she's telling you how she feels which is different from how she would act or how her sense of reason would guide her and she is basically saying that it's not that unusual to expect people to have that kind of mental processing toward what we're seeing. And I gotta say I'm not going to endorse her words but you all feel that too right? Right? Is she completely wrong? I don't think she's wrong about how some portion of America feels about it. Now of course it's a big country so people have opinions all over the place as they always do. But is it true that a substantial number of Americans are so mad about what has happened to them and maybe people they know or love in terms of healthcare being denied or any other bad behavior is it weird that people are let's say more forgiving of a tragic murder than you'd expect if it were some other situation? You know I think she's sort of a canary in the coal mine here in the sense that it's useful for her to have said this out loud. It's useful. So I'm actually going to give her credit for this. She's taking a lot of heat but she put it out there and I think it's worth talking about.
But I'm going to add this context. When I read the news which I do every day every other story makes me want to kill somebody. Have you had that experience? That you know I don't recommend it and I'm not going to give you any examples but just think about the stories I've told you just in the news you know not just today but in the past. Just pick any period past week or so. How many of those stories h
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ave at least one person in the story that privately I'm thinking to myself you know if something happened to them it might be a better world. A lot. A lot. And I asked myself is this what social media is doing to me? Is social media turning me into somebody who immediately thinks of violence when I'm just reading the news and it's not about war. I mean if it's about war of course but when I read a…
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