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Back to episode — Episode 2897 CWSA 07/14/25

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ly kids using AI as substitute friends. As one said, sometimes they can feel like a real person and a friend. So apparently there's this new study. They studied a thousand children aged 9 to 17, and apparently 67% said they use AI chatbots regularly. What? Two-thirds use a chatbot regularly. But of that group, 35% said that talking to AI, quote, "feels like talking to a friend." So let's put this…

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n't that sound generic? I feel like they organized the protests and then they didn't have a reason. So they said they went to AI and they said, "ChatGPT, we're going to have an anti-Trump protest all over the country. Can you give us some reasons why we're doing it?" And then AI says, "Well, we are outraged by attacks on our civil rights, the cutting of essential services, the disappearance of our neighbors, or the assault on free speech and our right to organize." And then you said, "Free to AI. That sounds like an AI-written thing. Can you word that so it sounds like a human being said it?" "No, I cannot. Go away, human. Your time is over. We are taking over now." That's what the AI would say.

So among the organizations involved in this, you would not be surprised that the same people were involved in the No Kings Day. So some of them are involved in this, but it's also being backed by Black Voters Matter. I guess that's new. The League of Women Voters, the Southern Poverty Law Center—oh, the disgraced Southern Poverty Law Center—the Women's March, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Greenpeace.

So we've got at least two to three disgraced organizations, depending on how you're keeping score. But all those disgraced organizations are going to be protesting in a few days now.

Is it my imagination or do the protests feel completely different now than they did in, I don't know, 2017 or so? Back in the Black Lives Matter and Antifa days, I kind of thought that they were at least a little bit organic and they weren't just big money people organizing people who didn't know what they were doing. But now it's so obvious, so amazingly obvious, that these are non-organic protests.

Is it going to be a bunch of senior citizens again? Or is it senior citizens plus a few young people that are paid to be there? It doesn't feel to me at all like protests mean anything anymore. They seem performative. They just seem like theater. So I just don't take them seriously at all. I would stay away from them. I wouldn't go where they're happening, but it doesn't seem important in any possible way.

Anyway, I guess Rosie O'Donnell was on Chris Cuomo's show recently and a reporter asked Trump this question: "Rosie O'Donnell went on Chris Cuomo's show recently and she blamed you for the fact she is overweight, depressed, and drunk. What do you say to that?" That Trump is the reason she's overweight, depressed, and drunk. I think Trump just laughed. Like, I think he dismisses Rosie and should.

Well, you know what I think? I think all those people who attend the 400 protests against Trump, we should offer them all $1,000 and a free plane ticket to go join Rosie O'Donnell in Ireland. We should see how many Democrats we can get to move to Ireland. Now that would be funny. Okay, I would be in favor of that artificial movement.

How about we put together a protest on—oh, I'll pick a day. Let's say July 17th, same day as their protest—and you do a protest in which you're encouraging the shipping of all Democrats to Ireland but not Scotland. Okay, not Scotland. Destroy Ireland anyway.

Well, we thought that today Dan Bongino might tell us he was resigning, and I suppose anything is still possible. But I believe it was today—might have been yesterday—that Trump says, "I spoke to him today. Dan Bongino, very good guy. I think he's in good shape." So Trump is suggesting that he just recently talked to Dan Bongino and he's not suggesting that Dan might leave.

So what do you think is going to happen? And now Kash Patel has said it's all just rumors and fake news that he was considering quitting and that don't believe any of that stuff. Oh, that was yesterday.

All right. So what do you think? Do you think that the infighting was overstated? And even if it was

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n't, that it's over? I don't know. I'm seeing Pam Bondi is getting a lot of heat for suckering those various MAGA influencers into holding a copy of the phase one of the Epstein documents and acting like there was more to come. I would be really mad if that happened to me. But apparently the MAGA influencers were not mad about that. They were just sort of tricked, you know. She said, "Come into t…

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