Back to episode — Episode 2698 CWSA 12/23/24
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ine is this enormous enterprise and it's all fake. What about the elections? If somebody said, hey I think that election is fake, but all the experts say it's not fake, you don't have any evidence, the courts say it's not fake, a reasonable person using their common sense would say, okay well there's no way this entire operation is fake, right? So you wouldn't use reason. You would simply be lock…
← Previous segment →t was true and we have eyewitnesses and if you fly past the moon you can look down and see the lunar module still there. How could that be fake? To which I say how could there be an uncontacted tribe in Brazil that doesn't know the iPhone exists? Your common sense about what's possible is terrible. It's terrible. You really have to learn the hard way that everything's fake. And once you learn that then a lot opens up.
I'm seeing in the comments that the Sean Penn comparison of Trump to Bin Laden was an old one, which makes me feel better because I do think people's minds are changing fast anyway.
Biden has pardoned a bunch of killers. The reason being that he didn't want Trump to push for the death penalty because he's against the death penalty. So he's not saying that any of these people, these are literally just horrible murderers who did the worst possible things. So he's not saying they're good people or that the world is a better place with them in jail. He's saying that capital punishment is wrong. He's going to save them from capital punishment. But I ask you, is Biden at least being consistent? You have to give him credit for being consistent, right? And by consistent I mean every single thing he does is bad for the country. Everything he did was bad for the country. Everything. And this is just more of that. You could pick any topic randomly and say well what's the common sense thing to do and what's the stupid thing that's bad for the country? Oh which one did he pick? Surprise, he picked the dangerous one. So more people will die because of these decisions. He just let out murderers, the worst ones. No, well I'm sorry he didn't let them out of jail. I think he just took away the death penalty part. I think that's true. So let me correct myself. He's not letting them out of jail. He's just taking away the death penalty part. I think that's true. So that wouldn't make anybody too much in danger except the other people in prison I guess because some of them killed people in prison. So now they get to stay in prison instead of being executed I guess.
Anyway, so some people think that Sam Bankman-Fried, who was the number two donor to the Democrats before he got in jail, that he might get pardoned. I think I saw Elon Musk said you know he just assumes that's going to happen. There is precedent for it. Didn't Bill Clinton pardon one of his big donors who was in jail? So if we're going to allow presidents to have pardoning powers we do have to expect this kind of thing. We do have to expect that some bad people would be pardoned. So I'm going to choose not to complain about it too much because it works both ways. You know everybody in the job does it.
Meanwhile Trump made some news at a TPUSA big event and he used his line which always gets a big applause with his crowd. Quote, "woke is broke." You could bring in a thousand professional communicators and you could say all right you professional communicators, the best in class, I want you to make a statement about wokeness and this category. Then the professional communicators would say stuff like well all things considered when we've blah blah blah in the larger perspective we'd like to preserve our diversity but it should be noted that maybe there was a little overreach and we went a little too far and maybe we should tighten it up a little bit. That's what the professional communicators would say. Here's what a good communicator would say: woke is broke. You can't beat that. You can't beat that. You could try all day long. You could bring a conference of the best communicators in the world, you wouldn't beat that.
Now part of the magic of it is that it's inappropriate. Trump uses inappropriate exactly the way you should
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. You've seen me interview my friend and expert on memory and cognitive stuff, Carmen Simon, Dr. Carmen Simon, and she teaches that it's the things that are out of context, the things that are surprising that stand out. It's like the blemish on the tablecloth, that's what you remember. So the fact that he's not supposed to talk this way in the office of the presidency or near it is what makes you…
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