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Back to episode — Episode 2838 CWSA 05/13/25

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ised it to? Lost a thousand jobs. Or there's another estimate that says instead of adding almost 800,000 jobs during the middle of last year, the economy likely shed more than 160,000. So it wasn't only that they revised it downwards. It went from wildly positive to, well, it might have been negative, you know, could have been negative. Now, how many of you remember when I had my Democrat debate…

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Bernie probably knows his party better than I do. I guess I would reflexively disagree with anything Trump does.

But here's the good news. He says if Trump is serious about making real change rather than just issuing a press release—oh come on, it's an executive order, not a press release—he will support legislation I will soon be introducing to make sure we pay no more for prescription drugs than people in other major countries.

Major countries. Ah, maybe he'll limit it to major countries. We'll see if Republicans and Democrats come together on this. We can get it passed in a few weeks.

So unless there's a trick in there and maybe the trick is the major countries, it looks like Bernie Sanders is fully on board with Trump's executive order. He just wants to make it stronger and make it part of the law. So we'll see if that's real or that's not real.

But I can't wait to see which Democrat would take a chance on challenging this in court. Do you think that's possible? I'm going to make a prediction that even the Democrats are not dumb enough to go all in on we should pay more for pharmaceuticals because we hate Trump. I don't think they can do it. I mean, they've done some crazy things just to be on the other side of Trump, but I don't think they can do this.

And you know, even Jasmine Crockett can't do this. She might try though.

Anyway, as you know, Trump has allowed refugee status for the Afrikaners, the white South Africans who want to escape the possible genocide in South Africa. Now, there's some disagreement. If you watch MSNBC, you'll find out there's no white genocide in South Africa. And there's violence. You know, everybody has violence. So why would we be favoring the white people in South Africa, says MSNBC, when everybody's, you know, it's a dangerous place?

And you know, there's just very, very little evidence that many farmers have been, you know, lost their land or been killed or anything. But it's only like 59 people, I guess, at least initially. And I just love the trolling aspect of this combined with the fact that I do think that if I were living there based on what I've seen in the news and what looks like is coming—and it's more about what's coming because if you look at the rhetoric, the rhetoric in South Africa is looking pretty dangerous.

So if I were a white resident of South Africa, I feel like I might want to get out of there. And the fact that Trump's all in on that, it just gives MSNBC something to talk about that doesn't matter.

Now, I don't know what's true or what's not true in South Afr

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ica, but the fact that it just gives MSNBC something unimportant. I mean, you know, if you look at the whole world and the country, it's not the most important thing happening. There's 59 people. So anyway, I guess I just enjoy the fact that they don't like it. Well, the Diddy trial is going now, and I guess the Diddy defense is going to be that the violence really did happen, but it wasn't part…

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