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Back to episode — Episode 2749 CWSA 02/13/25

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g hostages back is that, you're saying that, quote, "When you hold our citizens, we'll come after you at any cost." That's sort of the Trump message. If you hold our citizens, we'll come after you at any cost. Now that is exactly the right... it's not Witkoff, it's not, uh, it's not Witkoff or Grenell. All right, never mind. Stop guessing. The Witkoff, Grenell. That will still be wrong no matter…

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them money to do it.

Do you think Hamas wants to hear that? That Israel just has a free pass and the United States won't put any pressure on them to ease up? That would be the ultimate nightmare for Hamas. But I think that's where they're heading. They're heading to their ultimate nightmare.

There was a story in Politico by Eugene Ludwig titled "Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong." Anybody who's watched this show, we always knew the data was wrong. It's not because you heard it from me. Didn't you all know the data was wrong? Because they kept saying, I don't know what you're talking about. This data said you should be happy and have lots of money. But people would say, I can't afford eggs and gas. And then the Biden administration would say, yes you can. Look at the data.

And people would say, I'm pretty sure I know what's in my pocket. You don't know what's in my pocket, and I don't have enough money for eggs and gas. Oh yes you do. Just look at these high-level statistics. So of course time goes by, and then finally we can learn that it was all fake.

Now here's something I've been telling you for a long time, but I finally figured out a better way to say it. I've been saying for a long time, wait until you find out that all data that is important is fake. All data that's important. You know, not something that, let's say, a scientist did for a little study that nobody cared about. Right? That's probably okay. Or it might be. But anything that's big and important like the economy, those are all fake numbers. And there's a reason for that. There's a systemic reason why all the important numbers, the important ones, just limiting it to the important ones, are fake.

Do you know what the reason is? Well, it's like this. You don't want the fox to be your only source of data of how many chickens are left. Does that make sense? Because we always put the f

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ox in charge of counting the chickens. And then you're like, uh, do we still have 18 chickens? Uh, no, no, it's, uh, we have 14 chickens, says the fox. And then you say, what, did you eat those four chickens? And the fox says, I don't know what you're talking about. There's no data that says we ate any chickens. There's just 14 chickens. All right, we'll check back tomorrow. There are eight chick…

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