Back to episode — Episode 2777 CWSA 03/13/25
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fter Rosie O'Donnell announced that she's moving to Ireland, the prime minister of Ireland was in the White House. And the president's talking to the prime minister, and Trump says, quote, Ireland is known for very happy, fun-loving people. Why in the world would you let Rosie O'Donnell move to Ireland? Why would you let her move? She's going to ruin the whole country. Oh well, I've got one data…
← Previous segment →person. Do you know any regular person who complains about oligarchs? Have you ever heard that? I've never heard that once. I've never heard like just an ordinary voter say something like, you know, there are a few things I like about the world but man it's a scary time because of the oligarchs.
I would go so far as to say 70 percent of the entire Democrat base thinks that oligarch is one of the chemicals that RFK Jr. is trying to remove from food. It's the weakest, dumbest, completely disconnected from any kind of reality thing. It's the scariest time in his life, blah blah blah oligarchs. Bernie's lost it. He's completely lost it.
Have you seen the compilation clips on X or other places where it shows the prominent Democrats literally saying we've got to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse in our big social programs? And they're very careful to say, no, no, we're not talking about cutting benefits. We're only talking about getting rid of the waste, fraud, and you know, corruption and abuse. And it's literally exactly what DOGE is saying, exactly what Trump is saying. And it couldn't be more obvious that the Democrats are a performative group.
And have you noticed that people starting to use those words, that they're kind of theater kids and they're performing? Because they showed the same amount of enthusiasm for cutting waste, fraud, and abuse as they do now for criticizing Musk for cutting the waste, fraud, and abuse. Now they have to throw in that, oh, you should use a scalpel and not a chainsaw. Like that's useful. So they can pretend they have some reason but not really.
I don't think the Democrats have any core beliefs at this point. I think they just do what they think they can perform best. Yeah, I think I can sell this trans everything. Let's try to sell that. And then they'll act really hurt and worried and concerned, and none of it's real. It's just completely not real. It's all performative. And that's what happens when the 50 Democrats all do the same message on X. It's performative. They're not even pretending it's their own opinions. It's literally just the script that they've been handed and they just print the script.
So there is such a big difference now between the parties, and it's not just on policy as far as I can tell. And I would love to know if somebody has a counterexample of this. There might be. But I swear it seems like Republicans just do what Republicans always would do. They want to cut your taxes. They want to get rid of the regulations. They want smaller government. They want to get rid of the Department of Education. They want to move things to the states and the federal government. And those things seem like the things they've always wanted, and they always made sense from their perspective, and they're still talking about it. To me that seems completely genuine. Now you could argue it's a good policy or a bad policy, but you can't argue that they really believe those things and they're trying to pursue them.
Whereas the Democrats, it's all like theater kids killing a president. It's John Wilkes Booth times 100, because if you think about it, a lot of the Democrat work was just trying to take Trump out. It's the same as John Wilkes Booth. It's a theater guy. He was literally an actor. So it's literally just theater people going after a president. It's the damnedest thing to imagine that these parties are somehow equivalent and that it's, oh, it's just a difference of which policies you like. Nothing like that is happening. There is one side that is purely acting, and the moment they need to act the other way they will turn on a dime. Republicans don't do that at all. Republicans are pretty dug in on what it means to be a Republican anyway.
So DOGE has cancelled a National Institutes of Health grant that was trying to prevent pregnancy in transgender boys. Let me say that again. DOGE cancelled a grant that was meant to prevent pregnancy in transgender boys. Now you know how they always say you got to cut with a scalpel not a chainsaw. There's going to be now a wave of pregnant boys that could have been prevented if they just used the scalpel instead of a chainsaw. Yes, I'm being sarcastic.
I also wonder, have you noticed the lack of complaining that even though tons of things are being cut, the complaining is just the professional actors? The people who literally are Democrat elected officials who are just acting, or the people on the news who are just acting. But I don't see any real people who are going to protest because boys are going to have more babies, trans boys. So I feel like there's a whole lot of giving up on the Democrat side, as in, yeah, you know, we don't really want to fight about that. Yeah, you can have that one. Yeah, okay, you can get rid of the fraud, waste, and abuse. Sure.
Anyway, it also seems to me that all the Democrat organizations and all the grants, they all seem criminal to me. Just everything seems criminal. We'll talk about ActBlue, and we've talked about USAID, we've talked about the tens of thousands of NGOs. They all seem criminal. And it's so consistent. And it makes me wonder, are there also equivalents like that on the Republican side of the world? And maybe I just don't hear about it. Is everything corrupt once it reaches a certain scale, or is just everything that Democrats do corrupt? And I'm trying not to say it like I'm just taking sides. I'm just observing. It seems to me that every single time anybody digs into anything Democrats are doing, it looks corrupt. Corrupt as hell. So maybe it's 100 percent.
So Steve Bannon went on Governor Newsom's podcast. And here's something that Newsom said. He said the grievance narrative that comes from Trump, this notion that he's a victim. And Steve Bannon chimes in with, they did try to put him in prison for 300 years, right? See, this is the downside of Gavin Newsom having a podcast, because that is the right answer. Why is Trump always acting like he's a victim? You tried to put him in jail for nothing for 300 years. You may have thrown the election in 2020, that's Steve Bannon says. And I love the fact that Steve Bannon can just go on a major podcast with a major Democrat and just say we believe the 2020 election was rigged.
Now I don't have proof of that, but what are the odds that every single thing that we've looked into is rigged and corrupt except the election? Everything else, just everything else but not the election. I know it's kind of hard to believe that it would be the one thing that's not corrupt anyway.
Former Chicago mayor, according to the Gateway Pundit, Rahm Emanuel is maybe allegedly angling to be a presidential candidate. Here's my take on that. Uh oh. Now I've been telling you that all the Democrats need is a charismatic good candidate. If they just had a good candidate then suddenly they would be competitive like right on the block. And the fact that they don't have, seemingly they don't have any skills whatsoever. But Rahm Emanuel, he's got the whole package. He's got experience. He's got connections. You know, he's deeply connected to the Obama world so he could probably raise money like crazy. And he's also funny. And that's a problem if you're a Republican. That's a problem. He's funny. He's common sense and he's smart as hell. So I wouldn't want to run against him honestly. Yeah, he's got the whole package.
Now I never really thought about him as a potential presidential candidate, but as soon as I saw that name I said uh oh. Uh oh. That's an actual serious candidate. Now if you compare him to let's say Gavin Newsom, Gavin Newsom also has some political skill but he also has tons of scandal because he presided over a city that went to hell, San Francisco, and then a state that went to hell. So I don't think Rahm Emanuel has quite those problems. So I'd worry about him.
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ould the Democrats back another older white guy? Do you think an older white guy can get elected now as president? You know it was impressive that he ever became mayor of Chicago but president? I don't know. I'm not sure if the Democrat coalition would allow that. You know they had some special feeling for Biden that didn't always make sense to me. So I don't think Rahm Emanuel would have that Bid…
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