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Back to episode — Episode 2973 CWSA 09/29/25

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rks out, does it? And I'm not sure why that is. Like why is it that there have been so many allegations that didn't work out? Maybe that's just the way it always is. Maybe it's always 25 to 1 allegations to reality when it comes to anything complicated like an election. So maybe all right. I saw somebody say that guns were going to be banned in Canada and I thought, what? They're not going to ban…

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ay for example all right not enough Irish are being hired. So we're going to create a system where we're really going to encourage you to hire more Irish and we'll check on you and your pay as a manager will depend on if you get enough Irish. And then you go out and you find out everybody's trying to hire the limited quantity of Irish people who have the right skills for your high-tech industry for example and they would find that uh oh the only way I'm going to meet my goal of getting enough Irish is I'm going to have to lower the bar for how capable they will be before I hire them. Right? That would be how every human would act in that situation. Almost no exception. It would be close to every single human would act that way. Meaning that the Irish, if you got on an airplane and you saw that the pilot had red hair and looked kind of Irish you might say to yourself, "Oh crap. They may have lowered the standards to get enough Irish."

Now if I change the Irish to black people say you're racist. It's the same argument. You can literally switch out. You could put white people in there. You could put Albanians in there. It doesn't matter who the person is. That's the part that black Americans completely miss. Or most of them that I've seen address the question. They don't seem to understand. Again it's not every black person blah blah blah. Everybody has to say that. They don't seem to understand that the normal almost guaranteed way that that will go is that the white people in charge will cover their own asses which is really a criticism of white people.

Here's the thing that people don't understand. When conservatives complain about DEI being racist they're normally talking about other white people being the racist. You get that right? If you're a black job candidate and you were lucky enough to be favored and you got a job or even if you weren't favored you just got the job you're not to blame for anything. All you did was apply for a job and you got offered one and you took it. So why would you be the racist? You're not. So it's the same when it was Charlie Kirk who said the thing about a black pilot. The black pilot would not be the one who's to blame. It would be whoever said I think I have to lower my standards to get the right number of people. That would be usually some white guy and that's the guy who does the bad thing. The black guy simply took an opportunity that was offered. That's not racist. That's not anything but smart. I would have taken the job if offered.

So when I complain about DEI it's not 100% but probably 80% are white people that are the villains. The villains in the story are the white people because they're the ones saying, "Oh I better cover my ass and make it look like I hired diversely." All right, we'll see if that gets me double cancelled.

Do you know about the OCCRP? Which I didn't see defined but what it is is an organization of people in the news business internationally who kind of coordinate and some might say they coordinate the fake news. But the US has sort of dropped out of that because we're sort of onto it. So the Gateway Pundit is writing about this but apparently there's a documentary made in Germany that exposes just how bad the OCCRP is. And what did Germany do when the documentary exposed how bad they were? They banned it. So yeah they're trying to bury it. So I'm pretty sure that the US made the right play there thanks to Trump and others. But the OCCRP is not something you should be happy about.

Downtown Chicago now has a bunch of federal agents and tactical gear who are deployed there and Trump has said that border patrol will take no nonsense. So they're working Chicago and there's a bunch of federalized troops there working the streets and they're trying to get rid of the worst of the worst. They say we'll see if that works. Let's see if they save Chicago or not.

The White House has released a list of political agitators they call them. So these would be people who are calling Republicans Gestapo and Hitler and all that. Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit is writing about this. So the White House has released a list of the people and what they've said. It's a pretty long list so I'll just give you some of them. Governor Pritzker smeared ICE as the modern-day Gestapo. Interestingly Gavin Newsom wasn't nearly as bad. So he likened ICE to secret police calling them authoritarian and proclaimed a right to push back. Okay. But JB Pritzker claimed the country is becoming Nazi Germany because ICE is grabbing people off the streets and disappearing them. And Robin Kelly used Gestapo, Jasmine Crockett compared ICE to slave patrols. And it's a pretty long list. So it goes two pages, three pages. It's just three pages of Democrats who have said horrible things that nobody should say. Representative Lynch smeared ICE agents as the Gestapo and nondescript thugs. Somebody else John Larson said ICE is the SS and the Gestapo. So yeah I think all of that needs to be called out. So I compliment the White House for putting out this document with everybody's quote on it so you can see how bad it was.

There's a study recently that said that right-wing violence had outpaced left-wing violence for 30 years but now that's reversed according to the State Colombia. Brendan Rascus is writing about it. So for the first time in 30 years they say left-wing terrorism is now outpacing right-wing terrorism. I'm going to say I don't believe any of that. It might be true. I mean I don't have a push back to that specific claim but I'm pretty sure that the Democrats are saying it's the opposite. And if you haven't pers

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onally looked into the data you can't really trust either side. You should assume that the Republicans will say the Democrats are the violent ones even if they're not. And you should assume that the Democrats will say the Republicans are the violent ones even if they're not. So there's no credibility whatsoever to any of these claims. One of them is true because they're opposites. One of them is d…

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