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Back to episode — Episode 2718 CWSA 01/12/25

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don't know what an alderman is, but some kind of politician. And they're in the legislature and they're introducing legislation that would roll back the city's sanctuary law. So that's where the city would not cooperate with ICE and help them deport people. But at least two of them want to roll it back. Now this is according to Daily Caller News. Jason Hopkins is writing about it. And what is int…

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dn't know, and I'm pretty sure science doesn't know either even though they told you they did. I'm pretty sure they tell you a lot of things that you think they know that they don't.

Well, special counsel Jack Smith resigned from the Department of Justice. That would be the smallest surprise in the world. Do you think he expects to be investigated? Because it feels like at least he's been accused of being some part of some kind of potentially RICO-like bad behavior to lawfare Trump. You know, I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand I think it would be damaging to the country to rip the Democrat evil RICO people up by the roots, even though they've in my opinion I would say it's fairly obvious that major laws have been broken. But I'm not an expert, so I mean I could be talked out of it. If the real experts say well no, no laws were broken, it was just something you didn't like, maybe. Sure, it looks like laws were broken to me, but if the people who know more than I do say laws were broken and they want to investigate, I think I would take the risk of that destroying the country because keeping it the way it is would destroy the country for sure.

So you know, having a not physical Civil War but let's say a lawfare civil war is probably necessary to regain mutually assured destruction and make sure that people know that if they cross the line and create literally a RICO treasonous insurrection within the government, that's got to have a price. That has to be expensive. So if the Trump administration makes it additionally expensive for people involved in that bad behavior, maybe that's just the way it has to be.

I saw a social media thing that said Oprah is going to leave the country for four years b

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ecause of Trump, but I can't believe that's true. Can anybody give me a fact check on that? This sounds like fake news. I don't think Oprah would really leave the country for four years. Now if it's true, the only reason I could think is that she's trying to escape criminal prosecution for something. And if she went to a no-extradition country that would sort of confirm it. But I'm going to say fa…

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