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

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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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ll did you give me any evidence of the scary part? The scary part is he gives you exactly what the middle of America wants and most people agree. Oh that's scary.

But on the plus side I do give CNN credit because they put Scott Jennings on the air every day it seems like, or five days a week. And they allowed this strategist to say some things about Trump getting it right. And they do have other people who sometimes say Trump gets some stuff right. So the news of course is biased. There is news that's biased on the right. There is news that's biased on the left. But if you look at Fox News, let's just take The Five, they make sure that they've got somebody there who will say the other side. So there's at least always one person there who will argue the other point. And then CNN is making sure they have somebody there arguing the other point. But you know who doesn't do that? MSNBC. So here's the mistake. If you think MSNBC is like the others it's not even close. MSNBC, you could do an entire college course on propaganda and all you'd have to do is turn it on for half an hour and then talk about it. That could be the entire class.

All right, let's see what they said today because MSNBC will never tell you that there's even an argument on the other side. They won't even mention it unless it's such a bad argument and it's misinterpreted. It's usually misinterpreted if they talk about the other side. So just watch that. Watch how you know that some outlets are biased. But I don't mind the bias when it's explicit. So if I turn on Fox News of course they're pro-Trump. Of course they are. But they don't hide it and they try to cover all the news. So you get a little bit of both sides. And CNN same thing. But MSNBC? Nope. It's pure propaganda. And once you learn that then you can see all the techniques. I was thinking about doing that live sometime. Just turning on MSNBC and just saying click, okay pause. All right that was propaganda. Here's what they did. All right play. Okay pause. Because I think every 10 seconds, like literally every 10 seconds, you could pause it and say all right here's what they just did and just show the trick. I'm going to do that one of these days.

Anyway one of the tricks that MSNBC did — this was spotted by Paul Bond. This was good spotting. Remember when Elon Musk had a little ex, his kid, and he was in the Oval Office and the press was asking them questions? And you thought to yourself, man this is great because it's both Trump and Musk, the two people that you'd want to ask questions to. They're completely open to questions. They're making the time. They're answering as transparently as you'd want. And wow this is good. A lot of questions getting answered. MSNBC played it without the sound so that they could talk over it. So all you'd see is something that didn't look right. Because if you just saw the video and you didn't know that they were doing a real good job of answering all of our questions it would look like, wait a minute, there's somebody, that Musk guy, he doesn't appreciate the decorum and respect of the Oval Office. He's not wearing a necktie and he's brought his kid in there. And then you'd say to yourself, ah it looks like he's trying to be the co-president because Trump's sitting at a desk but Musk is standing up and getting all the attention. And oh this is our co-president. Pure propaganda to run the video and then just talk over it. Pure propaganda. Did CNN do that? No. Did Fox do that? No. They could say things after it but if you don't even play the video it's just pure propaganda.

Anyway I saw a post by Paul, and he was mocking yet another MSNBC employee who did a little video about I don't know, doesn't matter. She was mad about renaming the Gulf of Mexico or something like that. But she had the gigantic crazy eyes. And I hope I'm the one who's making this a thing because as Paul pointed out she has crazy eyes and it was the craziest eyes I've ever seen. There's just these gigantic saucers. At first I thought it was AI because I didn't think okay nobody really has gigantic eyes like that. But not only were the eyes gigantic, I'm not entirely sure but it looked like she had her eyebrows removed from the normal place and placed about halfway up her forehead. I've never seen eyebrows that far away from eyes and gigantic eyes too. And I really have a question. Why do these giant-eyed people, the crazy eyes, why are they all on one side? What is causing that crazy eye thing?

Now what it looks like is that when the eyes go wide they know they're imagining as opposed to talking about facts. And they know that they have to open their eyes to sell what they're saying because it's so ridiculous. If I told you that there was a UFO in my backyard I'd open my eyes like this. And there's a UFO in my backyard. This isn't the case that I'm imagining it. It's not really there. But if there were really a UFO in your backyard you probably wouldn't do that with your eyes. You'd say, "You can't believe it. There's a UFO in my backyard. Yeah I can show it to you. Here's my picture." The truth does not require those eyes. Those eyes do accompany making stuff up. So once you see it you can't unsee it. The big Adam Schiff eyes, the AOC eyes, the Elizabeth Warren eyes. You see the pattern. Adam Schiff, Elizabeth Warren, AOC. They all have crazy eyes. You just watch them talk.

Anyway I guess Trump just fired two dozen immigration judges according to Politico. That's a good start. The immigration judges are the ones who are granting asylum to people. Now why are we not just dismantling the asylum system? Wasn't that the whole problem? The thing that allowed the Democrats to lie to the public forever is that they'd say oh we don't have many illegals coming across because they would just call them legal. All they do is have judges say okay you're applying for asylum. All right good. Now you're legal until we make a decision that the asylum sticks or it doesn't. They were legal because they'd gone through our process to claim asylum. So why is there no conversation about just getting rid of that? Because there can't be that many people who legitimately need asylum. There must be some way to handle it without just having everybody who comes across the border a

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pply for it. So I don't know. Seems like that should be on the chopping block. We just found out that the California Department of Finance revealed that California taxpayers are spending 9.5 billion to provide health care to illegal aliens. That's just the health care. That would be a third of our deficit spending just for the health care. If you added the other expenses pretty much the entire ec…

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