Back to episode — Episode 2750 CWSA 02/14/25
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t our demographic problem perhaps, maybe something about our debt problems that are the same. And the best way to get rid of your debt problems would be to reduce your military spending by half. So as crazy as it is to imagine that we would negotiate with adversaries about cutting their budget for the military, you know, and you'd expect both sides would cheat and they would hide their budget in…
← Previous segment →hey were independent I would expect they would cover it in all of its elements. They hit every variable so you'd have a good understanding of both sides of that story if they were real news. Let me ask you if you watch MSNBC when they covered USAID did they ever give you the Mike Benz version of the world? You know the one where USAID has never been a real charity. It's always been only, only not in addition to but only a statecraft tool for overthrowing other countries or at least controlling them. Do you think MSNBC ever fully fleshed that out even if they said it's not true? Because how in the world do you have a story this big, the main headline story, and not mention what the other argument is? I don't think they've ever mentioned it. They're treating it like it's a bunch of charities and people are going to die if you cut off their funding. They already have some example of somebody who was cut off of oxygen and died. I don't believe the story but you know. So no, if MSNBC doesn't even cover not just the other side of the story but the really really important part of the story they're not news. So don't imagine that they are.
Well Thomas Massie, Representative Massie, had Michael Shellenberger in to talk to some part of Congress. And Michael Shellenberger says about that, he said that USAID, this is him not at the event but talking about it on X later, he said USAID said it was a charitable group. It wasn't. It was a tool for regime change. After 2016 it turned its guns inward. In 2019 a front group it created fabricated the evidence used by the CIA and moles in the White House and House Democrats to impede Trump. That's treason. Now you could say but that didn't happen. You know if you had some evidence it didn't. But how does MSNBC not cover it? Isn't it just screamingly obvious? They're not going to have Michael Shellenberger on to question his thinking. They're not going to have Mike Benz on to say all right we've got some different opinions but we want people to hear yours so we can have somebody debunk it or something. Nope. They'll just act like there's only one opinion. It's a charity and mean old Trump is cutting the charity and children will die.
Thomas Massie said at the event, I think he said, maybe this was on X, no it was at the event, he said USAID funded an organization that fabricated evidence which was used to impeach President Trump. Which is what Shellenberger said. And the deep state frequently funds regime change efforts abroad but when it uses taxpayer money to undermine our own government isn't that treason? So we have a member of our own government who's looking at a part of our government that we know a lot more about this week than we did last month. And he's saying if you just look at what they did just on the surface they use taxpayer money to try to impeach an American president in a totally illegitimate effort using the same tools that we used to run coups in other countries. Isn't that treason? And the answer is hell yes. Hell yes it's treason. This is not a debatable point. How could it not be treason? Of course it's treason. It's the most treasonous thing you'll ever see in your life.
So meanwhile Bill Burr the comedian he's got a podcast and apparently he said he went off on billionaires and he suggested that there were like rabid dogs who need to be put down. So he believes that the billionaires are the reason that there are poor people. Now I'm summarizing him. These are my words not his. But he thinks that if the billionaires were not hoovering up all the money then there would be money for other people. How dumb do you have to be to have that opinion? That's really dumb. Like I'd love
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to say oh he's not looking into this context or something but that's just dumb. Now he seems smart in general because when he does his comedy it's very clever and so it suggests a high intellect. But do you really think the billionaires stole the money? Does he not know that Mark Zuckerberg wouldn't have any money if he hadn't created Facebook and created tens of thousands of jobs and a tool that'…
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