Back to episode — Episode 2744 CWSA 02/08/25
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t today. Spaces will be on Sunday after the show. There are several stories in the news today about trans, and I'm going to ignore all of them because I feel manipulated. You know what I mean? Every time I see a trans story of any kind, I think to myself, you know, it was only a few years ago there were zero, and then suddenly it's like one of the main things in the news. There's no way that's or…
← Previous segment →favor of. You know, I'm not in favor of just revenge stuff, but this had no real impact on anything except a slap in the face to Biden, who just deserved a slap in the face. Again, not physically. We're talking mentally, slap in the face.
But the reason that I think the public was so interested in this story, you know, yesterday when I did my man cave program, almost everybody who came in said, hey, have you heard about this one? Have you heard about this one? And I think the main thing is we understand it. The DOGE stories are all just a little complicated. Have you noticed? You have to sort of know what the entity is, and then there's a whole bunch of different things they're doing badly, and then you confuse that with the other entity, and it's just really complicated stuff. So when we see a simple one like Trump's bringing back plastic straws, we're like, okay, I got that one. Or Trump revokes Biden's security clearance. Oh, okay, got it. Let's talk about that one. Easy.
All crime hides in complexity. Complexity is usually the way that it's usually intentional to hide crime. That's why almost every domain has something in it that's way too complicated, because there's crime in there and you can't spot it because it's too complicated.
There's a study that says that DEI didn't work. So DEI has been around for a while and it made basically no real difference. I could give you details, but the details all say it didn't make any difference. So it had years of severe racism against white men mostly, because white women were doing fine under DEI, but years of discrimination, just overt discrimination against men, no difference. The numbers barely moved a little bit more in management, which you'd expect. So anyway, DEI was a failure. We can say that for sure.
Much like the Department of Education at the federal level. The Department of Education was formed because the students at the lowest end of accomplishment needed a boost. So the whole idea was, all right, we'll do this federal thing so the states can't just let people go. And it made no difference. So years and years of funding the Education Department, no difference. So DEI, no difference. Department of Education, no difference. So getting rid of those things that made no difference has got to be a good thing.
All right, let's talk about the story about the young man. I think he was 25, who got canceled but was brought back. So correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the story about Big Balls is not a story about him saying anything wrong. He just had a funny name online. It's someone else, slightly older, 25 I think, 24, 25, who was the one who said some things under a pseudonym. I don't think it was under his own name, but had said several things that a normal person would say, well that's pretty racist. That looks pretty racist. I would say that if you were just looking at what he said. Yeah, I'm not going to repeat them because they're ugly thoughts, but yeah, if you were only looking at the sentences, that would look racist to me.
But here's the thing. There are real people who say bad things. I've told you before, I don't put the same standard on somebody young as I put on somebody older. But I also don't put the same standard on people acting anonymously. If somebody acts anonymously and then somebody outs them, I blame the person who outed them. That's my standard. Because if you're saying something anonymously, it means it's something closer to a thought. It's something that you wouldn't say under your own name. All of us have terrible thoughts sometimes, I mean on different topics, but we all have terrible thoughts. If all of us were judged on our thoughts, we would all be canceled.
Now some of you might say, oh not me, I never had any bad thoughts. Really? Really? I don't believe that. So I don't have the same standard for, and I don't know if this is the case by the way, I don't know if he posted under his own name. If he posted that stuff under his own name, then I would be a little more harsh. But anything that somebody does anonymously, it's because they want you to know how they think, and I find that valuable. So even if you hate it, don't you want to know somebody's thinking it? Isn't that a plus even if you hate that somebody's thinking it? I want to know what they're thinking, whether it's an insult to somebody else or an insult to me. I would definitely want to know.
So there's that. But here's the bigger story. So the bigger story is that he said things that normally would get anybody canceled. But JD Vance basically said, you know, get over it. People make mistakes. Move on. And th
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en he got reinstated. So Elon brought him back. He also had a little survey on X. 78% of the people on X, now it's of course not a scientific poll, but 78% said bring him back. Now here's why I'm in favor of bringing him back. Because I can't live with a standard that you can be canceled for something you said that somebody else thinks is racist. Now in this particular case these were unusually c…
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