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Back to episode — Episode 2824 CWSA 04/29/25

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r mind was not their minds. The thing that changed their mind was the AI. So what was it that caused them to have the opinions they had? Was it their free will or was it the AI? It's obviously the AI. What causes anybody to have the views that they have? Pretty much the news that they've seen and the information they've absorbed. So for the most part, we're very close to proving that free will is…

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According to the Wall Street Journal, 39% of executives in a recent survey said they'll decrease their recognition of pride this year. So I guess pride month is coming up in June and partly because the Trump administration's anti-DEI efforts companies are going to pull back on pride recognition or celebration I guess. Now my take on this, I think I said the same thing last year, is that gays should just take the victory because I've never seen any segment of the country that has been so successful in improving their brand from being mocked or whatever it was when you were a kid to wow, these guys are doing great. You've never gone to a neighborhood where somebody said, "Oh, you better not go through that neighborhood because it's a gay neighborhood. It's a little too dangerous." That doesn't exist. It's not a thing. And you also have a lot of successful top-level politicians, both Republican and Democrat, who are openly gay. I think take the win. I think the LGBT crowd especially, they've done the greatest job I've ever seen in improving their brand to the point where it's just irrelevant. Like how many of you spend a lot of time thinking about it? The test is you don't really even think about it. So take the win at some point. The whole pride month thing ends up working against you because it's a way to say you're different whereas the win is that everybody's the same meaning we're all different but we're all equal. So I just think the gay and lesbian community has won so hard that they should seriously consider whether they need a celebration. They should just say we won. Everything turned out great. I've never heard of anybody. When was the last time you heard of somebody not being hired because they were gay or lesbian? I've never even heard of it. I mean, I don't think it happens in 2025, does it? Anyway, so take the win. Good job.

So we're still obsessing about the first 100 days of Trump. It is the most ridiculous story. All it is is a way for Democrats to have something to talk about because 100 days is not nearly enough to know if anything worked. Now of course the Republicans were all saying, "But what about all those great executive orders and the border got closed?" And then the Democrats will just say, "Yes, but what about the tariffs that are definitely not working?" As if they know how it's going to turn out. Maybe 100 months would be a good time to check in. But 100 days doesn't make any sense at all as a time to check the progress of a president unless you are smart enough to say all right let's just look at the things where you can know how it turns out within 100 days and that's not tariffs it's not the economy it's not the price of eggs it's not Ukraine it's not Gaza it's none of those things but maybe in 100 months you'll be able to look back and see how it turned out. But this whole media obsession over a big round number. Oh 100 is a big round number. We should see how everything's happening within that 100 days. Ridiculous. Stop it.

Well, according to Christopher Rufo, and I guess there's an article in the City Journal, the professors at Princeton are kind of getting at each other because they're so racist that one of the departments is now explicitly telling the faculty, quote, "We can't hire a white guy." Now the Democrats and the people hearing this story for the first time are going to say, "Are you kidding me? In 2025, there's a respectable entity, Princeton, that's saying out loud, like they're not even hiding it. They're saying out loud, we won't hire a white guy." Well, may I give you my expertise as a white guy? It's never been different. It was around the late '80s or the beginning of the '90s when people started saying out loud with no hedging whatsoever, we can't hire a white guy. I mean, it destroyed two of my careers in the '90s. It's the reason Dilbert was born because I couldn't succeed at a bank or at the phone company because they told me directly we can't hire a white guy an

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d to act like somehow this isn't new. This isn't new. This is like a 35-year problem or 40 years or whatever the hell it is. The fact that people are just finding out about it tells you how bad it was that nobody could say it out loud in any public forum and if you did if you said it out loud in any public way people would think you're lying they would actually accuse you of lying I've been accuse…

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