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Back to episode — Episode 2769 CWSA 03/05/25

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brat, always complaining about the refs and yelling stuff like "you cannot be serious." And everybody loved to hate him because it was just so inappropriate. You're not supposed to do that. Tennis is supposed to be a dignified sport, sort of like politics. Politics is supposed to be a dignified thing. But you know there's Trump giving all these nicknames. And there's McEnroe yelling at refs. Oh yo…

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the database, not reality.

Now again it's not my understanding that we know for sure that these are indications of fraud and I've heard an argument that they're not. But everybody understands that if your big database of who should be getting money has errors like this in it you've got a problem. Now the problem might be you need better data or the problem might be there's massive corruption going on and this is showing where some of it is.

But apparently Bernie Sanders did his own response video that nobody wanted and nobody wanted to hear. Bernie Sanders. He wasn't the official response person because that was Slotkin who did it later. But Bernie makes his own video and he decides to focus on the part about the Social Security ages. And so Bernie has now joined the crazy eyes part of the Democrat party where his eyes are literally like crazy. They're all crazy. And he goes nobody, nobody who is 150 years old or 200 years old or 300 years old is receiving Social Security checks.

Now Bernie, I don't know why I need to explain this to you but I don't think Trump's point was that we have a lot of really old people in America who are receiving Social Security. It wasn't his point that there are real people who are 300 years old who have received a lot of Social Security. No, his point was either the data is bad and that's a problem or there might be some corruption indicated by this. But the best that Bernie can do is to emphatically remind us that nobody who is 150 years old or 200 years old or 300 years old is receiving Social Security checks.

Now he looked like he was suffering dementia so I'm just going to put it out there. I don't, you know, I'm no medical expert but everybody reaches an age where things don't work so well and I have to say Bernie looks like he's reached that age.

So imagine being a Democrat and watching Trump do this master class in showmanship that was really first rate. I mean it was good and then you're like, oh okay he was good. We'll give him that. We will acknowledge that Trump knows how to put on the show. Okay, all right, we're going to give him that. But watch this. Watch when our crack field of Democrats takes him down. And then Bernie comes on. Oh there's nobody who's 300 years old. And you're just sitting there saying oh God, oh no, shoot me. Oh God why do I have to be on this team? So that was great.

And other news on the speech. Trump said that he got a letter from Zelenskyy that he just got before the speech I guess. And he said the letter reads Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. So that's Trump quoting the letter. And Trump said I appreciate that he sent this letter. I just got it a little while ago.

Now if you remember what Trump said, he said you're not ready for this minerals deal because you're still talking about war lasting forever and you're just not ready for peace. So I need something that says I want to make peace really soon. And Zelenskyy gets the message and he sends a thing that says he's ready to come to the table to bring lasting peace closer as soon as possible. So that's what he needed: lasting peace, soon as possible. Put that in the letter, send me the letter, let me read the letter and then we're good. Then something can happen.

I love the clarity of that. The clarity was perfect because Trump said exactly what was wrong. He told him exactly how to fix it. And if he fixed that, peace to Ukraine. And so Zelenskyy finally, it couldn't have been more clear exactly what he needed to do. Put exactly those words in a letter, sent it exactly to him. Trump gave him the credit that he essentially had promised. If you can do this things will be good.

And then Trump did the thing which we love Trump about, is that although his enemies call him transactional, those who are not his enemies call him a dealmaker. He likes making deals. So if you can just get on the frame of we're going to make a deal and you don't be ridiculous about it, we're going to make a deal. So maybe back on track. We'll see where that goes.

Most of the speech was more let's say I don't want to say anti-China because that feels like the wrong frame but rather I'd say framing China as the biggest challenge to America in the future,

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the near future, starting today. And I didn't catch anything that was anti-Russian but I did fall asleep during part of it. Was there any anti-Russian stuff in the speech? Because I don't think there was, which would be sort of a change from normal presidents lately, certainly would be a change from Biden. But there was a whole bunch of, again I don't want to say anti-China but let's say taking C…

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