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

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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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pretty much on our side. And so that's probably exactly what it looks like.

All right. As you know, it's getting confusing with all the crooked Democrat judges trying to stop DOGE and Trump and the executive orders. Now there are too many to keep track of. But what you need to know is that the general setup is that Trump is using his executive authority largely to fire people, downsize, and move budgets around and stuff like that, cut budgets, move them around. And the Democrats are finding one reason after another to oppose it all. And they're using different judges, and all the judges or most of them — maybe it's just most — they seem to have an obvious conflict of interest. You know, they've got a relative who's a longtime Democrat fundraiser or basically they all have some kind of dirty connections that make them corrupt-looking. Now I don't know if they're corrupt but they definitely have all the tells for being corrupt. And they seem to be acting in a way that almost certainly guarantees that the larger question of who gets to run the executive branch — is it the president or does every little pissant judge anywhere in the federal system get to stop anything that happens if they don't like that president — because at the moment the courts, or at least these allegedly crooked judges, are seemingly running the executive branch by saying you can do this, you can't do this, you can only do it then.

And there's some thought that maybe this is actually going to be good for Trump. And the thought goes like this: That what Trump really needs to do is get some or all of these to the Supreme Court and then let the Supreme Court decide the most critical issue. Who gets to decide what happens in the executive branch? Is it the president, especially when it comes to budget and staffing? Is it the president or is it all these little pissant courts all over the country? Now I feel like Trump would probably win that if they got to some generalized principle about who's in charge and who can stop you. And at the moment the only power left that the Democrats have, since they lost basically everything, is these lifetime appointed — I think they're lifetime — these appointed judges that are clearly just Democrat corrupt operatives. So that's the last power they have.

So if this stuff gets to the Supreme Court and it becomes a generalized question — who gets to decide what's happening in the executive branch — I feel like the Supreme Court's going to lean toward Trump, you know, for all the obvious reasons. So it could be that the last remaining tool that's part of the government anyway, or the judicial, the last remaining tool besides the Soros prosecutors could be removed from the system. Not removed but at least ignored and maybe cast aside. So that could be a really big deal. That might actually be part of the Trump strategy, is to push every button until this gets to the Supreme Court and then give some clarity. And if the clarity goes Trump's way then he can really get busy. So what we've seen so far maybe is just a preview because the courts are legitimately slowing him down. What if that stopped? What if the courts stopped slowing him down? I mean who knows. Anyway that's going to get interesting.

So on CNN recently a Democrat strategist — they just had him on — and he was describing why Trump is popular today. And he says that he joined the Democratic Party in 1989 because he wanted to fight NAFTA. He wanted to drain the swamp and he wan

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ted to make sure his tax dollars weren't being wasted or going to foreign wars. So he's saying that basically in the 90s a Democrat sounds like Donald Trump today. So he says that's why we lost him, is we've let him steal our verbiage. Now there it is again. They think it's the way he says it. It's not the way he says it. It's what he says. People prefer his policies. You can look at any poll. And…

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