Back to episode — Episode 2931 CWSA 08/18/25
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, if it is a real thing, he likes it. Like a real thing would be NATO funding and taking out Iran’s nuclear program, etc. Those are real things. So where there are real things, Bill Maher seems to like it. Such as hiring Bobby Kennedy. That is a real thing. But what he does not like is January 6 was an insurrection, which never really happened. Like a complete hoax that he believed happened. And t…
← Previous segment →ng. You have to get rid of the graffiti in your capital city. You ought to get rid of it everywhere, but you really have to get rid of it in your capital city. I mean, it just looks like you have no capabilities whatsoever if you are covered with being tagged, as they say.
Well, Trump has put out a video vowing to rebuild and fix our major cities, starting with Washington DC. And in his usual Trump-like fashion, it is a pretty good video. You know, it is basically him doing a voice-over while showing images of Washington DC and how it is going to be all better crime-wise. Very strong. And I would guess that the idea of fixing our major cities would be an 80-20 issue, right? How many people would be opposed to reducing crime in major cities? They might say, oh no, it is just the beginning of how he is going to take over the country with his authoritarian ways. Some would, but I feel like that would be more like the 20 percent. Eighty percent probably say something like, oh my god, we need this. We need this badly. And I love the fact that it puts more pressure on Democrats because the one and only thing the Democrats have is that if Trump wants to do it, it is a bad idea. That is it. And so he says, I would like to fix your cities so they are more livable and your biggest problems are solved, you know, the crime. Well, what are they going to do? Well, they will oppose it because it is the only thing they know how to do. You do not have to wonder. I wonder if they will oppose it. Of course they will. So since they do not have options, they are definitely going to oppose it. That is the only thing they have. It is not like they are going to offer an alternative plan that people like better or something like that. That is not going to happen.
Trump is creating a little provocation today. So Trump reposted on Truth Social somebody else’s meme. But because he reposted it, it makes you assume that he sort of buys into the message. And the meme said the party of hate, evil, and Satan. And it was referring to the Democrats. Bunch of Democrat leaders on the meme: hate, evil, and Satan. And Trump reposts that. And it went on further to say, this was on the meme, the Democratic Party is dead. They have no leadership, no message, no hope. Their only message for America is to hate Trump. That is really what it boils down to, does it not? They really ran out of everything. They just do not have anything. And I saw yet another article today in which the Democrats were described as in collapse. Boy, collapse is not a word that you have often heard about a political party, is it? Have you even once in your life heard the Republican Party looks like it might collapse? Not once. Even when they were not winning, it never looked like they were going to collapse. And I will remind you that it was probably 2018 or so again that I told you that I would take out their tent-pole hoax, the fine people hoax, and it would cause the party to collapse. Now, it was not the only thing that happened. It seems like they have done everything wrong, having the worst candidates, etc. So that part I did not see coming, but the collapse part. Yeah. And probably they would not have collapsed without the revealing that they were running on hoaxes. I mean on some level even the Democrats know that the Russia thing was a hoax. Some of them know about the fine people hoax. But that is enough to make a difference.
Well, in Michigan, a city councilman was caught on camera stuffing a ballot box, a dropbox in an external box with absentee ballots days before the primary. And I thought that was the thing that does not happen. Were we not taught that there is no abuse of these dropboxes and mail-in ballots? Well, here is one candidate who found a way to abuse it. Now, what we do not know is was that the one only time he dropped some extra ballots in the mailbox or is it the one time he got caught on video and that maybe he spent every night filling out absentee ballots and dropping in various dropboxes? We do not really know. We only know he got caught once. So how many other people are also dropping things in boxes, but there is no video, so they did not get caught? You have to assume that if it is possible and it is something that people want to do, as in the Michigan city councilman, if it is possible and there is really high payoff for doing it, which is winning your election, when does that not happen? In what world do you not get massive corruption when it is possible and highly desirable and you could definitely get away with it sometimes.
Anyway, so Trump has picked a really good day because we have got that story floating around too. He is trying to get rid of mail-in ballots and voting machines in the US. Voting machines. He wants voting machines to not be used. Here are some things he said. He said he is going to do an executive order telling the states to stop using mail-in ballots and to stop using voting machines. Now, if you know a little bit about the Constitution, you are saying to yourself, but wait, he does not have power over that. That is a state decision. Each of the states get to decide how they run their election. If they decide they want a voting machine, the feds have nothing to do with that. But Trump has teased, if you look at the Constitution, he says the states are called agents of the federal government for the purpose of counting votes. Well, if the states are merely agents of the federal government, that would suggest that the federal government can sort of tell them how to collect the vote. I do not know if the framers of the Constitution intended that. I mean, that was before mail-in voting. It was before election machines were even invented. But is it possible he has an argument? Is that possible that the language saying that the states are merely the agents of the federal government is that enough to
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say, right, you just are agents, so I am going to tell you how to act because you are my agent? I do not know. It is worth a shot, is it not? And again, it might be an 80-20. I do not know if it is 80-20 but definitely there would be a majority who would say on both sides who would say I am not sure I believe these voting machines and others who would say yeah mail-in ballots probably do open up a…
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