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Back to episode — Episode 2969 CWSA 09/25/25

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n. There's no other way it happens. Pictures can augment the words, but even the pictures wouldn't do the trick without the words. So the words are the key part there. So I'm going to say it again. The Democrat leaders are not slightly, maybe a little bit guilty. They are 100% guilty. There is no other thing at work. It is only that. 100% guilty for causing the violence. And you could guarantee t…

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arrest. It's never happened before. The Post Millennial is writing about this. Several Antifa members were arrested in Eugene, Oregon. I guess they were terrorizing employees at some ICE facility. So they got arrested as domestic terrorists. Well, we'll see if that works out. I'm sure there'll be all kinds of legal challenges to that, but we'll see. I thought somebody said that there's no such thing as a domestic terrorism law. I heard that the other day on social media, but is that true? Do you get any extra penalty for being a domestic terrorist versus just bothering people where you shouldn't be? I don't know. I don't know about that. I'll have to find out about it.

Well, the budget debacle is beginning again. Republicans want a seven-week extension. Do you know why? Because they're completely incompetent and unable to work with Democrats. Do you know why they can't work with the Democrats to get something done on time? Because the Democrats are completely incompetent and can't work with the Republicans. So Congress is just completely broken on the most important thing they do, which is allocating money. They just can't do it. And it doesn't look like there's anything that will ever change that. I think you could change the personnel. Wouldn't make any difference there. There's nothing you can do. We're basically running headlong into financial disaster and nobody has even an idea what you would do differently. So we're going to kick this stupid can down the road. I'm going to hate the members of Congress with a white-hot fire that is at a level that you've never seen before.

Meanwhile, the Democrats are pushing for hundreds of billions of dollars of extra spending for health care and some other things. But these are things which Congress intentionally looked at and decided not to do, at least the majority did. But apparently there's a new wrinkle. So Russ Vought is saying that there might be massive layoffs if there's a shutdown of the government. So if there's a government shutdown, the Trump administration is going to use that as an excuse to fire massive numbers of people that maybe wouldn't have been fired otherwise.

So do you think that the Democrats will cave because they'll say, oh no, no, we have to save those thousands of Democrat jobs? They might. I've never seen anybody offer to make this play before. All right, well you can delay the budget, but if there's no budget I'm going to have to fire all the people who are unfunded. Well, not all of them. Some are necessary. But all you Democrats doing things that Democrats like, not funded. So you're all fired. And if you ever fund it, great, but there's nobody working there. So you'd be funding a whole, it feels like a good play. I don't know how this will turn out yet. I won't make a prediction, but it feels like a strong play by the Trump people. It's a brand new variable. That's what Trump does so well. If there's a situation that nobody could ever negotiate before, he'll add a new variable. And it's a new variable that changes the balance of everything. So it's a new variable. At least in concept, it's very well played by adding a new variable. That's a strong one.

Well, ther

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e's, I may have the name wrong here, but it looked like there's some YouTube channel by Cam Higby, maybe some other people. It looks like they're trying to duplicate the Charlie Kirk college debates. So they went to TSU and they tried to do the thing where anybody could come up and debate them. And it formed, and they said there was an anti-white riot that erupted because they were so hated for ju…

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