Back to episode — Episode 2725 CWSA 01/19/25
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f all these tech leaders that's how he's building his dictatorship to steal your democracy. But they left out that crazy part and just told the story. And the story was yeah he's doing really well converting people to his side. That's the story. And so they're just telling it. But MSNBC, I love their plucky loser approach. I don't think there's a single smart person who works at that network in m…
← Previous segment →ro the next day. There's nothing that would stop that. So under normal conditions and maybe a few years ago I would have opposed this as a bad idea, bad messaging, bad look. But I think everybody understands crypto if they're going to buy some. Buying crypto is just hard enough that if you didn't know anything about crypto you'd probably prevent yourself from buying it because you don't want to look into it. You know it's not like you just go to your broker. Well you could but not this particular coin.
So as long as people know exactly what they're buying and I think in some cases they're just gambling but they know it. They're gambling but they know it. And other times maybe it's just an expression of support for the president which they know. And maybe they treat it like some of them might treat it like a donation. Because if it pumps it up and then Trump gets to sell his before you sell yours well your money might go to zero, his might go to five billion. And if you treat it as a donation you'd think to yourself all right I don't mind that he gets some of his money back after being abused by the government for so many years. Probably lost a ton of money in his business just because of his politics. So I don't mind if he makes five million or five billion I guess off the coin as long as everybody knew what they were doing. And I think that's pretty close to true. I think everybody knows.
Anyway there's a Gaza ceasefire allegedly in effect and this would be the opening to allow Hamas to release the I guess 33 hostages they promised to release. I think there's going to be a whole bunch of problems with that. I'm not sure Hamas is organized enough that they can even just say yes and all of a sudden all the hostages are released that they were going to release. I feel like they're all spread around and it's hard to communicate and maybe some of them are dead that they didn't even know were dead. And so I feel like it's not going to go smoothly. The easiest prediction in the world. Let's see it's Gaza and Israel have made an agreement. Will it go smoothly or will there be some bumps? Yes the easiest prediction in the world. It's not going to go smoothly. And I don't know if there'll be any after this if it doesn't go smoothly. So we'll see.
What I'm interested about is I feel like reporting from that area kind of stopped. Did you notice that? If you ask me what is the Israel military doing in Gaza let's say two weeks ago before this hostage deal started to solidify I would have said I don't know. Why did I stop seeing news about that? Yeah are they killing as many as they used to kill? The reporting which is not reliable is that 46,000 Palestinians wer
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e killed. Now I say it's not real reliable because it won't be the same estimate that Israel has and you and I can't tell the difference. It's just people telling us what's true and we don't know. So I wouldn't believe any war death claims except that I feel it's almost certainly in the tens of thousands but beyond that you know any kind of accuracy would be ridiculous. So are they still, is Isra…
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