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Back to episode — Episode 2949 CWSA 09/05/25

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hing awesome and none of it matters. Absolutely nothing they do or say really makes any difference. It's going to be about 50-50 no matter what because I assume that the poll has a margin of error which means it could be a tie no matter what you do. It's a tie. I mean that that's everything you need to know about everything that none of the facts mattered at all and never will. All right. The new…

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ump is trolling hard and it's hilarious.

Well, Pam Bondi, US Attorney General, has announced they're beefing up their joint task force alpha that's fighting against the drug smuggling and trafficking at the southern and maritime borders. So whatever you're doing, cat, I don't appreciate it. All right. She wants attention. So that's good. And apparently the US is sending some 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico to be part of the fight against the cartels. So that's pretty serious. And it makes me think that Trump has pioneered a new kind of way to use the military. I call it the zero casualty military. Now, it's not that he wouldn't employ the military in a way that would have casualties. It's not that he wouldn't do it, but he keeps finding ways to use the military that, fingers crossed, have been zero casualties. For example, the bombing of Iran, zero American casualties. Remember we bombed the Houthis. I believe there were zero casualties on our side, right? Remember Panama, we threatened with our military but didn't need to use them, so no casualties. And now they took out one of those drug smuggling boats from Venezuela. No American casualties. So it's like he's picking up the free money, the things you can do with your military that probably will be zero casualties. And so I kind of like that he just looks for all the ways that you could get away with it basically.

Well, if you saw any of the clips of RFK Jr. looked like he was testifying in the Senate there and it was hilarious. The Democrats were so bent crazy and it was like the craziest among them like Bernie Sanders and Pocahontas, Elizabeth Warren. So it's the ones who sort of act a little bit crazy naturally, but here's what's funny about it. The whole thing looked like a Saturday Night Live parody of Democrats. It looked like a parody of Democrats. And the reason it looked like a parody is that they were so over the top because there's a set of circumstances that guaranteed they would look ridiculous. Number one, they've decided that they have to fight, right? They have to fight, fight, fight. So they have to shout down Kennedy whenever he's answering the question. So the main thing they wanted to do is prevent him from talking and use their angry question asking as the only thing anybody remembered. But they had to shut up Kennedy every time he tried to respond because when he responds, he sounds completely reasonable. So what that meant is that they had to interrupt him before they had concocted something smart to say and they were not clever enough to be both interrupters and to say a smart thing with the interruption. So what happened was their interruptions, which was the main thing, the main thing was to interrupt to prevent him from speaking. So it didn't matter what they said. They just had to say something. And it looked like several times they didn't have anything smart to say and probably knew it. So they just said something. So you have to watch it and then ask yourself how many times they interrupted and they just said like word salad and Kennedy was saying stuff like, "You're just babbling now. You're talking nonsense." And it was true. They were talking nonsense because if they didn't interrupt him, he would say completely reasonable things. And they've tried to create this hoax that Kennedy is the only person in the country who doesn't like science and wouldn't use it if he had it. The only one. I dare you

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to go out in the street and say, we're just wondering if you were in charge of these big decisions at the CDC, etc., do you think that science should be used to make the decisions? How many people in the United States would say, "Oh, no, don't use the science." None. None. Well, 100% of all living humans believe that if you have science that can be depended on, you should use it for these decision…

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