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Back to episode — Episode 2944 CWSA 08/31/25

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hings are allowed, it probably gets you a different result than if they're not allowed. So is it the voters who are deciding or is it the existence of EOs and whether the court said yes or no to the EO? What about the gerrymandering? That will determine a lot. What about the fake news? But what about Mark Elias and all of his thousands of lawsuits and rule changes and stuff like that? That made a…

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body to lawsuits, right? If he finds out there's something in the food supply, whoever makes that thing or sells that thing, they're gonna have to answer some questions.

Anyway, so back to the story of Lisa Cook, the Fed governor that Trump fired, but she says she's not fired because he can't do that. So she's either, she's like Schrödinger's cat of Fed governors. She's both fired and not fired. And we won't know until we look in the box later. But what's interesting is that I think it's Elie Honig, not Ellie Honig. He's the legal expert on CNN. And I've always enjoyed his commentary because he does the best job of taking the politics and the bias out of the legal discussion, which means somewhat frequently he will say something that sounds unambiguously like you heard it on Fox News. Now that's a compliment because it means that he's just following the law where the law goes. And so he's not like, "Oh, we got double cats." I thought that was Gary, but that was Roman. So what was I talking about? So Elie Honig is talking about Lisa Cook and does find that her activities with her mortgage, which again is two homes and calling them both the primary residence, so he does say that's kind of sketchy. And he thinks that a judge might agree with Trump that her behavior is within the domain of the president to decide if she's gone too far and that's cause for removal. So he's not saying that Trump is right. He's saying that the argument is strong enough that he could easily imagine a judge siding with Trump. Now that's interesting.

And let's see. Yeah. Apparently there are, I don't know if I should believe this or not. It's just something I'm seeing on social media. So tell me if these stories are fake or maybe they happened not recently. So I saw one report that there are anti-immigration protesters in Osaka in Japan. Is Japan having any kind of a public revolt against the Japanese immigration process which I think is loosening up? Is that true? But also I saw a video of many thousands of people doing some kind of anti-immigration protest in the UK and apparently that involves carrying a lot of flags. So protesting and the flag is part of it. Now, is that true or is that just something that happened in one town that one time? Is there a major uprising in the UK? Because I don't know that it's major, but it's happening. I mean, there's definitely some uprising. I feel like it's too late for the UK. This is something they should have done years ago. And I'm starting to think that the only democracy that's going to survive is one that has a Trump. If you don't have a Trump, there's not somebody willing to literally risk their life and their freedom to change things. And that's what it takes. I mean, you literally have to risk your life and your freedom to make a difference in any immigration or that stuff. But there also are reports, so maybe this is all related, that for the first time in modern history according to the Wall Street Journal populist conservative parties are leading the polls in all three of Europe's biggest economies: the UK, France and Germany. So do you think that's a thing? Do you think the conservatives will win in all three countries and then clamp down on immigration? I don't know. Maybe, but I don't know if it might, like I said, it's probably just too late. I think all those countries are essentially going to be different countries. I'll just say that.

Anyway, Governor Pritzker some say is slimming down. Maybe he's taking one of those fat reduction drugs, but that's good for him if he's getting healthier. That's great. Some say it's in preparation for running for president. Maybe. Do you think that Governor Pritzker looks at his own chances and says, "Yeah, yeah, I could be the next president"? Because I don't see that. I don't think he has the charisma, the kind that you need. I think he's got Chris Christie charisma, which is really good up to about the state level. And it just, it's like Tim Walz. Tim Walz has state level charisma. It just doesn't have national charisma. Gavin Newsom, I hate to tell you, has national charisma. Now, he's not my choice, but he's not limited by his charisma to a state level. Like he doesn't have a cap. He's got the kind of game you could very easily just imagine seeing him in the White House. Unfortunately, I hate the fact that I can so easily imagine it, but he does have the game to get there under the right conditions.

Apparently Indonesia is having major protests in the streets over I guess the economic disparity, the difference between the elites and the average people. And the average people are trying to rise up. But apparently there was, as part of one of the demonstrations, there was a moment when an armored vehicle accidentally ran over one of the protesters who was also a middle class worker kind of guy, a ride-hailing driver. And if you're already having street protests about the elites not caring enough about the middle class, you really don't want to have an armored vehicle running over one of the protesters. That's like the worst look you could ever have. An armored vehicle, you know, the money of course belonging mostly to the elites, one assumes. So it's just a bad look. But what I don't know, and now I'm curious because I'm so jaded. Do you think that if it's true that Indonesia is having these big street protests, do you think they're organic or do you think that there's a country doing a color revolution on Indonesia? And it doesn't mean it's us. It could be China using the same color revolution tricks. Now that the color revolutions largely involve controlling the media and, ow, kept biting my toes. Ow. But definitely they always have to include street protests so that the other citizens believe, "Oh, protests, ordinary people like me are rising up against the leaders." So you don't get that look unless you've got people in the street. So I always assume that people in the street is always fake. Okay, I'm really getting eaten alive here. Which cat is doing that? Is that you? Which cat? I don't know. I think that's Roman. Roman's the toe biter.

All right. Separately, the New York Post is reporting that at least some people believe based on a UK-based report by the Henry Jackson Society, you know, the Henry Jackson Society. No, it's a Henry Jackson. Harry Jackson is actually a sexual reference. So what did you guys do last night? Oh man. Had a couple of drinks and next thing you know, we're doing the Harry Jackson. All right. But that has nothing to do with the story when it's really the Henry Jackson Society. Has determined that Iran's Islamic Republic is getting close to collapse and civil war. Do you believe that? Do you believe that Iran's government is close to collapse? I don't know. That feels like the thing that you say when you want to make them collapse. I just don't think that Iran has that energy to overthrow their current government. Maybe, but I'm going to say probably not.

Trump also told the Daily Caller or Reagan Reese that he thinks a trilateral meeting with Ukraine is likely. In other words, Putin and Zelensky and Trump, the three of them. But he thinks that a bilateral is less likely, the kind where Zelensky and Putin meet. Now, I've told you this before. I haven't really seen anybody else say it, so you can tell me. Is this just really obvious? Is everybody saying it because it's so obvious? Here's what I think. I think that Zelensky and Putin, because they've probably almost certainly tried to kill each other, like I'll bet you both of them have green-lit plans to kill the other. How do you put them in a room? Like even if you say but I'm an analogy thinker and it reminds me of an analogy of other leaders who once got together like FDR met with Stalin to which I say did Stalin try to kill FDR? Did FDR ever try to kill Stalin or were they just bad guys but we had to work with them to win a war? There's not really an analogy for that. Can you think of any s

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ituation in which the two leaders who genuinely tried to kill each other and essentially did great damage to each other's countries? Can you put them in a room without anybody else? I don't think you can. I think that their hatred and distrust of each other would go so deep that there's just nothing that good that could come from it. But if you throw Trump in the room, then he has that way of maki…

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