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Back to episode — Episode 2961 CWSA 09/17/25

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rantees violence over time. I don't think conservatives have that. In other news, Dick Durbin, he said this notion we're going to characterize MAGA as Nazis, for example, on the other side, that the Republicans would characterize the Democrats as a party of murder or evil. I think the only one who said that was Elon Musk, right? The party of murder evil. Now, do you believe those are equivalents…

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ll somebody because anybody characterized their party as the party of murder and evil because you obviously understand that to be political exaggeration, right? It's not like every Democrat is evil murderer. Not everyone. Just kidding.

The Nazi thing is incitement.

Now, somebody tried to get technical with me and said, "Scott, it's technically not incitement unless it's inciting somebody to do something right away, so you stupid idiot, you don't understand what even incitement means. How can you be so dumb?" To which I say in a legal sense inciting violence usually means immediately, you know, like right now I'm inciting you to cross the street and do something violent. I get that. I understand that. I'm using the word like a word is used if you're inciting somebody over eight years but the cumulative effect, there's a 100% chance you've incited violence. You're inciting violence. I don't want to listen to "oh we're technically, technically that's not what the law says." Okay, maybe you wouldn't get arrested. I'm not even arguing that. I'm just saying that's what's happening.

Trump did a Truth Social saying he'd been threatening this, but looks like he's really going to do it. He's going to do an executive order banning mail-in ballots and voting machines. And as his justification, besides the fact that he thinks they're easy to game, he says the reason that he can do an executive order and make the states change how they're doing it when the states are in charge of how they do the elections.

Apparently there's some

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thing in, is it the Constitution or is it the law? But whatever it is, the current situation is that the states are called agents for the federal government when it comes to the election. So I believe he's going to do the technique that I suggested. Not because I suggested it, but you know, it was more like the obvious place to go. So the states can in fact do the election any way they want becau…

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