Back to episode — Episode 2900 CWSA 07/17/25
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lots of different entities — but about every one of the entities said, all right yes totally. Yep. Our portion would only cost a billion. Well unless you want to go all the way down to state which is what you want. Well that would be two billion. And then all the other people involved do the same thing. So well now that it's all approved, I got to admit, we're taking a closer look and we probably…
← Previous segment →ld be this cool underwater train experience, high-speed train, and they would make it so that the underwater view is amazing so that you're looking at amazing underwater stuff as you go. So that's what the UAE is doing. How does the UAE get something done like that? Because it feels like in the Middle East that things are getting done. Maybe not that big city or whatever is Saudi Arabia. I think Saudi Arabia is having that cost overrun thing too, building their big futuristic city. But we'll see. We'll see if the UAE can do what California cannot do times 10.
If you watched the Sean Ryan broadcast podcast with Gavin Newsom, you saw that Gavin Newsom was angry at Trump for among other things giving him the nickname Newscum. And the problem that Gavin Newsom has with his nickname Newscum is that he has children and the children get bullied at school and they get called Newscum too. Now I am very much opposed to this situation where you call Gavin Newsom Newscum but it has a you know downhill impact on the children being bullied and I think you need something to distinguish the two because you don't want the father and the children to be suffering under the same nickname. So what I recommend is that Gavin be called Old Scum and maybe his children would just be New Scum. Sort of like Junior. No, I'm against bullying. That's just a joke. But it's kind of funny. Newscum and old scum. If I were his kids, I don't know how old they are. I think they're probably teens. If I were his teenage kids and people were calling me Newscum, I would insist that my father be referred to as Old Scum because it would be funny to me.
All right. Well, apparently there's a new poll of Democrat congressional approval and the job approval according to the New York Post, Victor Nava writing about this, they've hit a new all-time low. So they're now at 19%. Only 19% of registered voters approve of the way Democrats in Congress are handling their job. That's a Quinnipiac University poll. 19%. Is that the lowest it's ever been? It feels like it, right? Newer scum. Newscum and newer scum. That's pretty funny. So I'm going to predict that Democrat congressional approval will hit single digits. So you know something below 10. If they're down to 19, I don't know if there's a bottom for this. So we'll see.
Well, Newsmax is reporting that Columbia University is trying to address the problem that the Trump administration is withholding something like 400 million in federal funds because they say Columbia is not doing enough to fight antisemitism. So Columbia has decided to try to get their 400 million back by agreeing to a bunch of requirements placed on them for fighting antisemitism. And I said to myself, well what are they asking them to do? Well here's a list of things they're going to do. They're going to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism. So they won't have as much ambiguity about what is and what isn't. They will accept that organization's definition of antisemitism.
Now what would that be? What would their definition be? Their definition would be that some critiques of Israel the country as a Jewish state might cross a line into antisemitism. They gave some examples. So if you were to publicly deny — or privately I guess — deny the Jewish people's right to self-determination, you would be antisemitic. Their right to self-determination. What does that even mean? What would it mean to deny somebody's right to self-determination? Doesn't everybody sort of have that right a little bit? I don't even know what it means. So that'd be trouble. Or claiming — so it would be antisemitic according to this definition if you claim that the existence of Israel is a racist endeavor. So don't do that. And if you compare the current Israeli policies with that of the Nazis, that would be considered antisemitic. So you can't call Israel Nazis. But just to be clear, you can still call everybody else a Nazi. You can call Trump a Nazi, you can call me a Nazi, you can call everybody a Nazi, but you cannot call Israeli policies Nazi.
Now here is something you need to know. I talk about this a lot actually, but I'll put it in this context as well. Whoever controls the definition of words controls you. Let me say that again. Whoever controls the definition of words, in this case antisemitism, controls you because they can decide, well according to my definition you just did something illegal so you go to jail or you get kicked out or whatever the penalty is. So whenever you see this, we've decided this one organization will be in charge of the definition of the word. You don't want to be in that situation. You want to be able to have the right to use words the way you would like them to mean. And if other people have a different definition for it, well you can fight it out verbally. But if you let somebody else decide what your definitions of words are, they are in charge of you.
So I would suggest that Israel is making a step in the wrong direction because one of their biggest complaints is that the antisemites say Israel has too much control in the United States. Well they're talking about this now. Now it's not the country of Israel. In this case it's the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, which I'm sure is a fine organization. I have no problem with it whatsoever. And obviously if they have the option of being in control of the definition, of course they'd want that. You know why wouldn't they? You should want it too. We should all want to be in charge of the definitions because that puts you in charge of everything. But they're working with — so Columbia is also working with the Anti-Defamation League and what else are they doing? They're going to appoin
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t a coordinator to ensure compliance with whatever civil rights acts. Sounds good. And they're going to work with the Anti-Defamation League to create training on antisemitism. So a little bit like the definition thing. So if Columbia delegates the training materials to the Anti-Defamation League, they're really putting the Anti-Defamation League in charge of some important stuff. So I feel as th…
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