Back to episode — Episode 2888 CWSA 07/05/25
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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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So Elon Musk is modifying his plans for starting a new political party. So instead of primarying every single Republican who voted for the big beautiful bill, which is something he threatened, he's now saying that one way to execute on this would be to laser focus on just two or three Senate seats and eight to 10 House seats because he reckons if he can get just that many people to join what he calls his America party that the Democrats and Republicans would be so close they'd be sort of a tie on everything that he would be the Joe Manchin tiebreaker.
You remember I always talked about how smart Joe
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Manchin was because he would be the one person that you were never sure if he was going to side with the Republicans or the Democrats, which effectively put him in charge of the whole country at the time because the votes were all close to a tie and you always needed that one extra senator. And I always thought he's so smart to not commit to one side or the other because it puts him in charge of t…
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