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NewsReaction Politics as Persuasion

Back to episode — Episode 2932 CWSA 08/19/25

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other people need me to succeed?" That's not really fair, is it? So anyway, that's my take is that you shouldn't treat other people as pets. You should assume that if they do the right things, they'll get the right outcomes like everybody else. Well, the Democrat party continues to collapse. So as you know, they have no policies anybody cares about and they have no leaders that are identifiable a…

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apse looks like. That's as collapsy as you can get. There's nothing left.

Anyway, well, DOGE is claiming that their savings that they've already arranged for are going to be more than 200 billion. And that's just so far. So, that would be $1,300 per taxpayer. Really? Huh? So, the Epoch Times is reporting on that. Now, I would remind you that whenever you're looking at this big data stuff, especially if money is involved, I'm not sure you can believe any of it. So, I'm not going to say that because I love DOGE, which I do, and I think that they're all there for the right reason, which I do, and they're all super qualified and capable, which they are. That's still not enough to assume that any number they produce is going to be reliable. That's a whole different deal. Nobody really can produce reliable numbers. It's almost not even a thing. But since DOGE is almost certainly directionally valuable, you know, as long as they're working on it and chewing away and cancelling contracts, I'm pretty sure it's working in the right direction. So, I don't need the exact numbers for that.

Well, according to Newsmax, Representative Comer is going to be in Congress talking to the, I guess the DOJ is going to start sharing the Epstein files with Congress. That would be Comer's oversight group. And what do you expect from that? Does anybody expect th

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at we're gonna have any new great revelations because Congress is going to get some more Epstein files? I feel like they had some sense which of their files were useful and would make a difference and which weren't. I feel like it might be all we're going to see now is the worthless files and we'll just be pouring through them and saying, "Ah, where's the good stuff?" And there just won't be any g…

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