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Back to episode — Episode 2945 CWSA 09/01/25

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hey did a study and they found that in both countries people's trust of the election increased after receiving both a warning that they might see some misinformation. Now do you see that this is propaganda? They say that when they warn people that they might see misinformation that those people are better equipped to know what to trust. Well, why is it that there's one entity that knows what's tru…

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t know. I think everything's so it doesn't matter what part of your brain you use, you're not going to get the right answer that is not available to usually.

Speaking of crazy people, Illinois Governor Pritzker he's now floating the conspiracy theory that Trump has other reasons for wanting to flow the National Guard into our cities and that he wants to do it so he can come up with some excuse for why the 2026 or 2028 election should be cancelled and then he would stay in power because the election is cancelled and he would have his private army. That's why he would say the national guard in all the major metropolitan areas. So Pritzker says about Trump, he has other aims other than fighting crime. He said it on Face the Nation.

So here's my question about Pritzker. Does he believe that? Does he really? Does he really believe that? Or does he know exactly what he's doing? And he's part of the Democrat obviously is coordinated where they get to say, "All right, we don't have any policies and we don't have any good candidates. So the best we can do is make up another Russia hoax about Trump." So it's not Russia related. Yeah. But it's still just a made-up bunch of It's just made up stuff. So the Democrats only have one mode, which is, oh, we don't have a policy that people would like, and we don't have candidates that people would like, but I'll bet we've got a story that would light up the neural networks of the conspiracy theorists. So let's try that. So it's disgusting and ridiculous and obscene.

One of the White House communications people referred to Pritzker as a slob. And obviously that's Trump's framing, but it's funnier when the staff starts picking it up and she's calling the governor a slob. You know, it works because people don't want to listen to or follow a slob. It's just one of those words that gets right to our core icky feeling. You just don't really want to spend any time around somebody that you think is a slob. So Trump just has to say it a number of times until it's the first thing you think of when you see him, which is what it's the first thing I think of when I see him now. And it will chip away at his credibility. Slob is a really powerful word.

And Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago says that Trump has declared a war on poor people. A war on poor people. Okay. He got Brandon Johnson finds new levels of incompetence every week. Yeah, he declared a war on poor people. Okay. And I guess he's saying that because he's taking Medicaid and SNAP away from the residents. Now, of course, he's not taking that away. He's just making sure that people who shouldn't be on those programs don't have access to it or they have to do something to get it, which is reasonable. But I'm trying to connect the dots. So if support of the phrase that Trump is declaring war on poor people, the evidence for that is that some people who probably shouldn't be getting it would be losing Medicaid and SNAP. So connect the dots for me. Let's see.

Because the context is reducing violent crime. So is Mayor Brandon Johnson saying that people are doing more murdering because they're trying to make money to pay for their healthcare that they lost? Are they doing more murdering so that they can buy soda with their SNAP payments? How in the world does violence come out of the idea that there's a war on poor people? None of it fits together. It's just like nonsense words stuck together. So Mayor Brandon Johnson is stuck in some kind of a conspiracy theory delusional thinking to war on poor people.

But Trump did target affordable housing programs or one in particular. Apparently, according to the AP, there was some very large government program called the home investment partnership program. I guess it was through HUD and funded over 1.3 million affordable homes. Now, what that means, it was some combination of subsidies to fix up existing homes and helping people get into their first home. And it was a variety of things, but a lot of those homes that were being helped by that were in rural districts. So the story is that Trump is hurting his own voter base by taking a government program away from them to help them get a home.

But I say, wouldn't the free market solve that faster? And is the reason that the free market isn't making homes available is that the federal government had done all the wrong things so that you couldn't build homes easily? Wouldn't it make more sense that instead of the government getting in to subsidize th

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ese use of inefficient real estate in a non-free market, wouldn't it make more sense for the government to get out of the way? If the government just said, "How about we don't do anything? We won't have any regulations or rules you have to follow." I mean, I'm exaggerating just to make the point. You'd want some. It just got out of the way. Don't you think the free market would provide more housin…

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