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

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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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ught it was impossible to meet in the middle on anything? As soon as the Trump effect went into wide effect, it seems like people like Stephen A. Smith can now say what they wanted to say maybe all the time, which is you know I like my Democrats. I still kind of like some of the philosophy. But why are we acting like common sense doesn't even exist? Like why can't we at least do the things that make sense that everybody agrees on? Now that weirdly just wasn't a way of thinking even a year ago, but now it is. That's all Trump. That's all Trump.

Here's what else he says. Stephen A. Smith said quote, "The finishing touch for me in terms of changing his mind on politics was California." Well here it is. Because I think he's the canary in the coal mine. If he tells you that the

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California experience before the fire — this is before the fire — if he tells you that looking at California made him think that the Democrats were not the ones to back, just think about the fact that he could see it before the fire and he was affected by it. I don't think it changed his vote, but now it might. And he said about California, you see what's going on in California: higher taxes, hom…

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