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Back to episode — Episode 2858 CWSA 06/03/25

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Yes. Yes. Yeah. Incredible. That is so disturbingly dangerous for this country. Wow. So I was thinking to myself, how do you deprogram those people? And the answer is you probably can't because they've chosen to have no contact with you. But if you could I would start with the fine people hoax and I would set it up this way. I would say have you ever found out something that just totally rocked y…

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e election did not look credible, then having a delay to make sure it was credible would be saving the republic. It would not be an insurrection at all. So that might be a little too complicated, but that would be the only clean path to convincing somebody who was willing to listen that that was a hoax. It was no insurrection. It was patriots trying to make sure that we got the right result.

The other day I wittily pointed out that Democrats only did two things wrong in the last several years. The two things they did wrong were all of their candidates and all their policies. Now of course I was saying that for humorous intent but then other people said but what about their messaging? Now I think that candidate and policies covers messaging too. But just to put a little light on that here's the comparison in messaging where Bernie and AOC were saying things like we have to stop the oligarchs. Trump was saying we're going to enter the golden age. Which one of those is better messaging? Stop the oligarchs or come with us. We're going to enter the golden age. Those are not close. That is the worst messaging ever.

How about this one? Equity. Yeah, we want to have equity or we want common sense. Which one's stronger? We got to fight for equity so everybody gets the same payout no matter what they put in or we've got to fight for common sense. Again, these are not close. It's not like you're like six one, half a dozen of the other. As soon as you hear them, you go, "Oh, I like the golden age and I like common sense, but stop the oligarchs and give me equity." It just doesn't resonate.

But then you've got Tim Walz who's teaching Democrats how to code talk like a real man. And lately he said that a good strategy would be to bully the out of Trump. What? Bully the out of him. That's the messaging from the Democrats. Oh my god, that's bad.

And then the last story that I have for you, which I think is a very important one, is that China now has a negotiator for the trade deals. And believe it or not, President Xi

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hired somebody named He. I'm not making that up. He. That's his first name. So Xi hired He to get them a good trade deal. And I guess he's a tough negotiator. So we'll see how that goes. All right, that's all I got for today. And I'm going to say hi to the locals people privately after this. And the rest of you, thanks for joining. Always appreciate it. And I'll see you again tomorrow. Same time,…

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