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Back to episode — Episode 2852 CWSA 05/27/25

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den's brain is completely broken. He's obviously incompetent." If you were listening to me say it every day, you would be completely immune from the cognitive blindness because you would have at least one person and probably lots more who are telling you the truth. So you wouldn't have that problem. But when you look at the Democrats, they would definitely have that problem of being cognitively bl…

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in the same way, then the people who weren't powerful and were just sort of on the same team would believe it was true and they would believe it easily even though it was obviously not true.

Well, here's one of my favorite stories. Speaking of Jake Tapper, he was on the Scott Galloway podcast and he was talking about his son. I guess he's got a 15-year-old son and he was talking about in the context of the Democrat party and the Democrat messaging. So he talks about his son was a football player and he wanted to grow up and be a cop. So he's 15 and that's his goal. And apparently because he wanted to be a cop, the people around him, his friends, have decided he must be a racist. And what he wants to be a cop because he thinks that's the best way to help people. And therefore his friends think he's a racist 'cause he wants to be a cop.

And so Jake Tapper is saying, quote, "You're deciding he's a racist because he wants to be a cop." And why does he want to be a cop? He wants to be a cop because he wants to help people, you know, and he thinks that's the best way he can help people. And that's how the Democratic Party talks to men, not just white men, but men. And then Jake goes on. He says the idea that he wants to be a policeman and therefore he's racist, my son. And like, you know, that was the big laugh. And then I got dragged in the comments and all that stuff. And I thought to myself, this is why you are losing elections.

So does Jake Tapper understand what's wrong wi

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th the Democrat party? Yep. Now, I can't name names, but I'm going to tell you that there's at least one other person who's a big name in the media business who had the same enlightened response. Meaning that it's one thing to support the Democrats until you have a son and then it becomes impossible if you have a white son. So he's the second person I know of who had a white son and he realized, "…

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