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Back to episode — Episode 2962 CWSA 09/18/25

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now. Would I like some revenge? Yes. Yes, I would enjoy that. But that doesn't mean I get it. That doesn't mean I should pursue it. Doesn't mean the world's a better place if it happens. Yeah. I'd like a little shot of Schadenfreude because remember I got canceled. I got canceled for something I said. Very similar. Do I think I should have been canceled? Nope. Do I think Roseanne should have been…

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I don't know social security reform and it didn't work. It wouldn't bother me at all. But if he told me he did strong things on the border, strong things in the city about crime, he went after other countries that weren't paying their dues. I'm gonna see a lot of strength and that is really really good persuasion. Even when stuff doesn't work out it's still the right play. That's the part people don't know. The ordinary person would say I'm only going to try to do this if I've got a pretty good chance of succeeding. He doesn't need to do that. He can try things that don't have a high chance of succeeding as long as it shows how strong he is. Does that make sense? I don't think this would work for most people but it's definitely working for him.

All right. According to the Daily Caller News Foundation, Adam Pack is writing about this. I guess Democrats are a little bit divided now over whether they should keep using incendiary rhetoric and calling the Trump administration people Nazis and Hitler. But George Takei, you remember him, Sulu from the original Star Trek. He says that Trump employing the quote Nazi playbook to exploit Charlie Kirk's assassination. Breitbart's writing about that. Paul Bois. And can you imagine being George Takei and that's the same week that Charlie Kirk is assassinated probably because of people like George Takei. Let me say it directly. People like George Takei, cumulatively, not him specifically but cumulatively they caused the death of Charlie Kirk. Does anybody even doubt that? Do you believe that there was any chance Kirk would have been assassinated? Any chance if Democrats didn't talk that way, do you think they would have said I don't like his policies and he would have been shot? I don't think there's any chance. I think they had to not like the policies but also think everybody thinks he's Hitler. I think this would be popular. I'll do this. So it will be funny to watch them make the same mistake over and over but it's not funny if it causes somebody else to take a shot.

You know the news. Blaze Media got a hold of, I guess they were first to look at it, a report by a private entity who is the Capital Research Center and they did a study on George Soros and his funding machine. So it mapped out all the nodes and where the money's coming and how much and stuff like that. Now that would be, it's a 95-page report and apparently that's going to be turned over to the Trump administration who also said they wanted to do some research on the Soros funding stuff. I guess also there's some talk about Antifa being designated as a terrorist organization. That hasn't happened yet. But remember I said Trump is famous for taking the strong position. Well what would be stronger than designating Antifa as a terrorist organization? Now suppose it doesn't work out like somehow he has to back up from that. Would it be a mistake? Nope. It wouldn't be a mistake. Even if he doesn't end up getting that done it wouldn't be a mistake because everybody would say man that's strength. He's going hard at the people who need to get a little pressure on them.

Well Israel has completed the Iron Beam system. I don't think it's fully implemented in the IDF but technology-wise has passed its tests. The Iron Beam is a laser that will shoot down drones. Now as you know lasers don't work as well on cloudy or rainy days but Israel would also still have the Iron Dome which shoots up missiles to knock down other missiles. But we are now solidly in the domain of lasers shooting down stuff.

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t canceled for telling the truth but Kimmel was lying. Yeah that's not really the important part. That's not how analogies work. Analogies work when there's just one thing that they have in common that can tell a story. And the one thing is that if you're both comedians that's it. Lying is not against the law. I don't like it. I wish there would be less of it but it's not against the law. And so e…

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