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Back to episode — Episode 2951 CWSA 09/07/25

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ed Vance's take on that. He had to generalize it to the point of absurdity. Jay Bhattacharya was talking to Newsmax recently and he says that the COVID-19 data that the Biden administration left him is corrupt. Do you see my meta point? So yet again, after RFK Jr. came under fire on Thursday, apparently now we know that our data is crap. Anyway, so there's more detail on that story, but the point…

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its biggest attack yet on Kiev and they were hitting a government building and they launched more than 800 attack drones in one day. 800 attack drones. Now you remember my prediction that the front line at least would become an all robot war, drones. So it looks like that will extend maybe into the capital, but it would also explain why Russia is in no hurry because they probably want to become the best and biggest drone fighting country. And as long as they can have this sort of practice war that they can just go out and do every day, hey let's try this drone. How'd that work? Try this drone. It seems like the Russian military would be getting stronger and stronger because the only thing that's going to matter, you know besides maybe intercontinental missiles and some other nukes, but in terms of conventional warfare, the only thing that will matter is their drone warfare.

So if Russia is getting better at drone warfare every day, they're probably not in any hurry because they're not running out of people and it doesn't seem to be making them too much less popular in Russia in any way that matters to him. So I see absolutely no reason that Russia would ever want to make peace. And Zelensky also seems to be unwilling to make peace. Maybe because he knows it's a waste of time, but if both sides are not really super trying to make peace, how much am I supposed to care about it?

Now you know I'm full of empathy for everybody who deserves it, but that's sort of everybody all the time. Pretty much everybody has problems. Well I just have this problem with special problems that somebody's problem is worse than yours. Is it all right?

I guess the Trump administration is going after a North Carolina city. Wow. There was a county in North Carolina that was trying to approve racism reparations. So I guess the civil rights area of the government's going to go after him. Ow. Ow. Oh god. Cat going after my feet. Stop it. It wouldn't be a good time to beat my cat on camera. So I'll just turn sideways and see if I can bleed onto the floor. Stop it.

Anyway, so reparations. So there again I asked myself, how much am I supposed to care about reparations? I mean I have a normal amount of empathy. I think that systemic racism is real, but so are my

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problems. My problems are real. Are yours real? Of course they are. So but who has preferred problems? Like why does somebody else's problem is preferred because of some historical argument about people that are not me? You know I get that you can stitch it all together and make the argument, but people, lots of people have problems. Just that the fact that yours is demonstrably true, that doesn't…

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