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Back to episode — Episode 2968 CWSA 09/24/25

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aid, "Well, you got to expect there's going to be some blowback for that." And so that's what the liberals think.

Now, to me, this is a perfect example of the power of brainwashing because you'd have to brainwash people to think that Charlie Kirk was speaking hate about anybody even once. Even once. Never happened even once about anybody but it is widely believed. So how powerful is brainwashing? Well, it convinced half of the country that a good man is a bad man. And it convinced half of that half that it probably is understandable that somebody would get violent with him. All of that is complete brainwashing. There's not one bit of that that comes from people looking at real stuff and coming up with their own opinion. These are assigned opinions.

So do you have any more questions about how powerful brainwashing is? This is the cleanest example you've ever seen. What makes it extra clean is that Charlie Kirk didn't always exist, meaning that he's a relatively newish phenomenon. You know, last 10 years, I guess he rose. And so it's not like, well, Scott, you know, people have always thought this about that for all through history. Nope. Nobody had any opinion about him at all until it was assigned to them. And pure brainwashing.

Well, in other news that Trump might enjoy, Peter Strzok, do you remember him from the old lawfare days trying to get Trump? Allegedly, his messages suggested that he was part of a plot to overthrow the government. Some say he's never been convicted for anything like that, but he was suing over his firing because I guess he claimed that he had freedom of speech in his messages to his girlfriend. And since he got fired for something he said in his personal speech, he thought that his free speech had been violated and he shouldn't have been fir

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ed. Now, if you ask me, that's a pretty bad argument. And he lost. So that case is over. So Peter Strzok loses. That's sort of like Trump winning because he would like to know that Peter Strzok lost. Remember, Trump says he hates his enemies, so he hates Strzok. Well, Keith Olbermann, as you know, he's my mascot. He apologized for threatening the other Scott, Scott Jennings. There are only two of…

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