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Back to episode — Episode 2752 CWSA 02/16/25

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It's just like the fine people hoax and the drinking bleach hoax. You don't have to know anything to know it didn't happen. That obviously didn't happen. And it was just something about the way the light hit the water. So no, there's no truth to the thought that he was drinking bourbon or something on stage. So dumb. Meanwhile AOC is calling for the governor of New York to remove Mayor Adams, who…

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now that Fetterman guy, he's looking real good." Next thing you know Fetterman removed from office.

While the Washington DC real estate market is collapsing, everybody's trying to sell their house because they're all getting fired or they're afraid of getting fired or they're Democrats on the way out. But as the account called Cynical Publius points out and others have pointed out, among the top seven wealthiest counties in America, four of them are around Washington DC. So four of seven of the wealthiest counties are right around Washington DC. And Washington DC doesn't make any kind of product. So how are all these people making so much money? It's because they're around the money. If you put them around the money they'll start forming NGOs and scams and grifts and everybody's got a PAC or some damn thing that needs to get funded. And apparently there's almost no fiscal responsibility in Washington. That's what DOGE just taught us. And if you have no fiscal responsibility, gigantic amounts of money, and no product being made except people persuading and grifting, that's what you get. If you wait long enough you've got one of the richest counties or four of seven of the richest counties and you haven't done a damn thing that the country wants. You've just taken the money. That's what it looks like. So we'll see if that era is coming to an end. That might be a little optimistic.

And what about David Hogg, who's now one of the co-chairs of the Democratic Party? How many of you thought to yourself, it seems to me that all the Democrat leaders are actually just crooks, like demonstrably obviously crooks? You've heard about the Clinton Foundation. You've heard about Hillary Clinton running the Russia collusion hoax. You've heard about them doing the 51 intel officials laptop thing. You've heard about Ukraine. You've heard about USAID. You've heard about all the NGOs. It feels like, and of course in my opinion, nearly every mayor of every city is corrupt. There might be some exceptions but I feel like you almost have to be corrupt to be mayor in this country.

So what happens when David Hogg comes out of nowhere and next thing you know he's one of the heads of the DNC? Well according to PJ Media, Matt Margolis and some other people talking about this, as soon as he got into that position he used the mailing list that belongs to the DNC to raise money for his own political action committee. And his own political action committee pays him $100,000 a year. So he gets put as one of the heads of the DNC, the Democrat National Committee, and then almost right away uses their internal source to raise money for himself, literally for himself. Now it's for his PAC which pays him, so it feels like it's for himself. So that's exactly what we expected.

Now I'm genuinely curious, genuinely curious. Do all criminals become Democrats because they know they can get away with more, or does becoming a Democrat turn you into a criminal? Because obviously I'm aware that there are Republicans who are grifters and corrupt, etc. Obviously. But we don't really hear about it much, do we? It feels like it's an exception or something happened with some underling somewhere. But it feels like every single Democrat is corrupt, like all the leaders, and somewhat obviously to me it looks like — well this is obvious, I won't name names — but there's some people, just the way they act, they couldn't possibly be acting independently. It's so obvious they're getting a paycheck of some kind, directly or indirectly, that nobody would act like that. Nobody would act that dumb in public intentionally.

Anyway, speaking of dumb in public, I was watching Adam Schiff, who's got kind of a theatrical interest. I guess he wanted to be a script writer at one point. And he was getting so theatrical when he was questioning somebody in one of these hearings that it was actually impressive. He wasn't really even trying to make an argument on points because he was totally losing on whatever the argument was. He was getting killed. So he just kept ratcheting up the emotion. And then, "And then you're saying that you would give money under these conditions?" "No, I'm not saying

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so." "You're saying it." "Well no, it's the opposite. I'm not." "Oh, so you're saying you would give money. So under these conditions you would throw the Constitution under the bus. Is that right?" "No, nothing like that." "So all right, we've agreed you would throw the Constitution under the bus." And the amount of emotion that was obviously theatrical and fake was kind of impressive. So it made…

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