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Back to episode — Episode 2875 CWSA 06/21/25

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d it take this long for somebody to say that on Bill Maher's show? How many times has Bill Maher referred to January 6 as an insurrection? And it took all the way to now for Wesley Hunt to say, how do you have an insurrection with no guns? He went on saying that's like making coffee with no beans. One person was killed that day. It was Ashli Babbitt. She was a white unarmed woman killed by a black…

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n the protest and that that's the only thing that matters? What were they thinking? And were they thinking that they were taking over the country and they left their guns home? Is that what they were thinking?

So I think Wesley Hunt he was 60% of the way there with nobody goes to an insurrection without guns but the other 40% that's a kill shot and nobody's taken a kill shot yet. It's going to happen but nobody's done it yet.

New York Post is reporting that CNN is collapsing. Two of their executives just resigned. Vice president of domestic news and VP of digital video and they'd both been there a long time and I guess there are big cost cuttings coming and Anderson Cooper gets paid $18 million a year. I've got a feeling that there might be a change coming to Anderson Cooper's compensation package but we'll see.

According to a post I saw by Mario Nawfal, who you should follow on X, he has great news summaries. He saw this in recent cybersecurity research. So he has a source. Apparently 500 research papers have been written in China about how to crash the power grid in America. So 367 Chinese papers targeting the US grids and 166 on European systems and they talked about how to create cascading failures and systemic collapse. So if you're wondering is China wondering how to collapse our entire power network? The answer is yes. They're putting a lot of effort into understanding what would work.

Now the fact that there are so many different papers sort of suggests that maybe there's not one obvious way to do it, which maybe gives me a little weird comfort. If they have to do that much thinking about it, maybe it's not easy. Maybe they can't just turn a switch, which we imagine they could do. But the papers detail malicious data injection attacks. Yikes.

What would kee

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p China from attacking our grid? Well I think as long as we don't attack their grid or attack them it's unlikely they're going to attack us in that way because why would they? But as a defensive move China quite wisely has a pretty good backup plan. And I have to admit it, I feel safer if China feels they can take down our electric grid than I would if the only tool they had was a nuclear weapon.…

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