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Back to episode — Episode 2976 CWSA 10/02/25

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uch change, the more change you introduce and the faster you introduce it, and nobody's introduced more change than Trump is, faster or more, your popularity should drop quite a bit in the short run. If the things that you do work out, then half the people who said, "Oh, no. Tariffs are a mistake," well, suddenly they go, "Okay, I guess I was wrong about tariffs." But not until the long run. If cl…

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f they don't mention it, I guess it comes down to this one thing. And to Tapper's credit, although he called it a lie technically, he did also support why it's a perfectly good point that the Republicans are making. It's a perfectly good point. If they don't want to fund people who are non-citizens, that's the choice the voters. And then anyway, so Jeffries didn't have much of an answer to that. He doesn't have much of an answer to anything.

All right, it gets better. So the White House I guess they had to furlough their social media manager because of the shutdown. So instead of not having their social media manager operate from the White House. The White House did one of the funniest things I've ever seen. They announced in a post, "Our social media manager was furloughed, but making America great again isn't." So they show a meme that apparently was made by the people who were the backup staff, you know, the ones who were not the good social media managers. And so they intentionally made the meme have all the wrong fonts, a terrible design, you know, super simplistic, a little eagle in the corner that's just too on the nose. And hey, cat. But they made the meme so hilariously bad. It looked like something you would make on the first day that PowerPoint was invented. You know, somebody said, "Hey, PowerPoint, what's that? What's it do?" All right, watch this. I'll grab these images and I'll put them all together and I'll put all these different fonts and it'll just be a mess. So if you didn't get the joke that they intentionally designed it poorly, wasn't funny at all. But once you realize that they intentionally made it funny, it's definitely intentional. They intentionally made it bad. It's just great. It's really funny. And then you look at the comments then people who got the joke rolled in and they played with the meme themselves. One of them put a little sombrero on the eagle. I mean just great stuff. So I reposted that on X. If you want to look at it, it's definitely worth a look. But A+ to the White House. Probably the social media managers were part of designing that. But it's brilliant. It's just brilliant.

I saw a post from Cynical Publius, one of my favorite follows. He said that fat generals is merely the latest 80/20 issue the Democrats have decided to sport on the 20% side. Have you heard anybody complain about the secretary of war saying that the general shouldn't be fat? I haven't heard anybody complain about it. It is another 80/20. We do want our generals not to look fat. I do. I want that. I mean, it's not my number one problem in the world, but yeah, I want my generals to not be fat. So good call. Once again, Democrats on the 20% side.

All right, we talked about that. So Harvard has hired a drag queen as a visiting professor. The drag queen's stage name is Lahore Vagistan. Sorry, cat accident. No, no, don't. No. Roman, don't knock over the microphone. You can be at my lap. You can be over here. It's fun to be in my lap. Okay. So here are the classes that their drag queen visiting professor is going to teach. One is queer ethnography. So if you wanted a queer ethnography class in Harvard, you could get one now from a drag queen named Lahore Vagistan. But that's not all. You can also attend a class at Harvard called Ru Politics, Drag, Race, and Desire. And that will be in the spring semester. Now you tell me. Is Harvard trolling or did they really think this was a good idea for their brand and for the students? What is going on with this? To me, that's just funny. It's just funny that they would destroy themselves. I would like to keep an updated estimate of what the value of a Harvard education was and is. I would say a few years ago, very few years ago, the value of a Harvard education could be in the millions. You know, if you looked at lifetime earnings, even though it would be expensive to go there, probably one of the best investments you could ever make because of your lifetime earnings. I would say a Harvard education would probably have been worth $20 million over a lifetime. I mean really really valuable. Current value of a Harvard degree. Updating my estimates. See carry the three. $200. Current value of a Harvard degree.

Did you know that Joy Reid went to Harvard? Yeah. And Joy Reid was just on a show and End Wokeness spotted this and she said when my mother came from Guyana she realized it's not a land of opportunity for people like us. Was she talking about America being not a land of opportunity? I believe she was saying that America was not the land of opportunity she thought it was. As End Wokeness points out, the average salary in Guyana was $5,200 a year, and Joy Reid came here and earned $3 million a year at MSNBC. So let's say, put it all together. Her mother's from Guyana, which means they came to this country well after slavery was done. So was not part of the slavery. But she earned $3 million probably on the backs of white men who didn't get into Harvard because she did and didn't get a job at MSNBC because she did. So question, does Joy Reid owe me reparations? Because she wasn't part of the legacy of slavery, but she was part of the legacy of denying white men jobs. So do the math. Does she owe me reparations? I went through, let's say, I lost my first career because I was a white man. I lost my second career because I was a white man. I lost my third career because I'm a white man. She got on the rocket ship to the top through Harvard, which of course considered her ethnicity, and then MSNBC, which of course considered her gender and her ethnicity. So she owes me reparations, right? All right. Well, get back to me on that.

Do you know Rick Caruso, the developer guy? I think at one point he ran for mayor against Karen Bass but did not win. So he was on the All-In pod event and he was talking on stage with the All-In pod guys and he said quote we are spending in the city of Los Angeles $900,000 per homeless person that we're moving from the streets. Chamath said 900,000 per year because Chamath is unusually smart and that immediately looked like a sketchy number. So he's like 900,000 per year, you know, kind of challenging him to back that up. Caruso said, "Yeah." Chamath said, "Oh my god." So I looked it up on Grok to find out if that $900,000 estimate was real. It's not. There's no number like that. Yeah. And so remember I tell you all data that matters is fake. That's presumably fake data. I think Chamath saw it right away, but you know, they didn't have the ability to do a deep dive, but I guess I'll ask you guys. Jason, you might be listening, but do a little search on that. See if you can update that number. If it's true, if you can back it up, that would be really interesting. But Grok is not aware of any. It gave lots of details of what they are spending. It was nowhere near that number. It was still big, but more like a few hundred thousand. So probably fake.

Trump just signed some executive order that they

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say will, according to the Post Millennial, it will supercharge pediatric cancer research with AI. Now, that's a good idea. So I think it's mostly an AI related thing, but they want to direct the AI at looking at all the apparently they have immense amounts of cancer data that would be relevant to childhood, but they don't really have an excellent way to see what that data means, which is strange.…

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