Back to episode — Episode 2888 CWSA 07/05/25
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as a candidate was a good idea. What percent of the people who answered? Does anybody know? You know I don't have to tell you. You know that's right. If you guessed 25%, you were very close. The answer is 23%. Yep. 23% of respondents thought that Harris would be a good idea. How in the world could you go through that last election cycle and conclude that Kamala Harris is your best player? Like I…
← Previous segment →vil war. You know, grab your gun. And I always wonder how many people actually think that the US is close to a civil war. Because again, I don't know what hellscape that is you're living in, but I don't know anybody who's close to a civil war. It's just you see some strangers on social media say, yeah, it's time for that civil war. But I don't know a real person who thinks the civil war is necessary or desirable. None.
But it turns out that my intuition was not too far off because only 6.5% of the respondents felt strongly or very strongly that a civil war was likely, and only fewer than 4% agree that such a conflict was needed. So 4% — I'll bet even that 4% doesn't really mean it. You know, like if you said, all right, the magic genie just put you in charge of the civil war. If you say y
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es, there will be a civil war that you think is necessary. If you say no, the genie will make sure there's no civil war. Do you think you could get 4% of the respondents to say, hm, yeah, let's do the civil war? Because I'm a little skeptical. I feel like it might be close to zero people would actually say yes to that. So I don't think the US is close to a civil war. No, nowhere close. We don't e…
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