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Back to episode — Episode 2983 CWSA 10/09/25

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It was like a whole long episode. I watched every minute of it, which I almost never do. I don't watch usually the whole episode of anything, but so I'm grateful that you do, but I usually can't hang. But oh my god, is she talented. If any of you had the same reaction, her voice is just perfect. Her mastery of her topic, impressive. The ability to find an angle on something or a point of view that…

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now? No. Do you know what advice I would give her? Get the away from Democrats. Just get the away because you know that at least 60% of them are going to think you're garbage because you like MAGA. Forget it. You're going to have to get away from those Democrats. That's what I did when I first became known as a Trump supporter. I lost pretty much my entire social structure. Everything except family and just a handful of close friends. But mostly I lost my entire Democrat structure because I didn't even know the politics of my friends. Do you know that? For years and we'd spend massive amount of times together. I didn't know their politics. No idea. Because it never came up. But boy, when it came up, I could feel the hatred. Not from all of them, of course, but you could feel it. And what did I do? I got the away. And I would give this advice. People think that this is somehow limited to the one situation where there was a Rasmussen poll that said something like 30 or 40% of black people said it wasn't okay to be black. And then I said the word that gets forgotten. Have you noticed that? It's the most important word. I said, "If this poll is accurate," and couple years later they redid it with a bigger sample. It was accurate. I said, "If it's accurate, you should stay away from groups of people if 40% of them think it's not okay to be you. It wouldn't matter if they're black. It wouldn't matter if they're LGBTQ. It wouldn't matter if they were a bunch of Democrats who are your best friends." That was my case. It was a bunch of Democrats. They were all different from different countries. And by the way, a vast percentage of my closest friends were born in other countries or their parents were born in other countries. So they had that immigrant anti-Trump view. I understand it. But why would I spend time around it? Would it make sense for me to spend time around it?

Now I only had one family friend who said directly don't want to spend time with you. What did I do when my one friend very close friend said you know it's better if we don't spend time together because of my cancellation. Do you know what I said? I said, "Fine, blocked the phone and will never talk to them again for the rest of my life. I'm going to stay the away from them." Why would I spend a minute with somebody who would harbor that feeling about me, even if they were nice enough not to say it out loud? The minute you find somebody dislikes you on that level, get the away from them. And I'm not going to ever change that advice. Why? Because you all agree with me. Everyone who cancels me also agrees with me. Everyone. Every person who cancelled me. Everyone agrees with me 100%. If they listen to what I said, if they heard a version of the context, then that's different. But if they listen to what I said, I have never once insulted black people. That's never happened. Would you agree? You're the ones who watch me the closest. Have I ever insulted black people? Never. I love black people like on an individual basis. All good experiences. All good. Anyway, but groupwise, you can act differently in group decisions versus individual decisions. Of course, never discriminate against an individual. That's bad for them and it's limiting your own choices. Why would you limit your own choices, you know, unless you believe that like every single person in one group is going to be worse than every single person in another group? And nobody thinks that. Literally nobody thinks that. So yeah, don't discriminate individuals, but groups. Yeah, totally. If it's for your safety, that's the only good reason.

During that same meeting talking about Antifa, somebody asked Trump if he would designate Antifa as a foreign terrorist organization. They're already designated as a domestic terror organization. And Trump did that Trumpy thing, which I love so much. He looks at his top advisers who are also in the room. He goes, "Is that a good idea? Should I do that?" And one adviser says, "Yes." And he looks at the next one while we're all watching. It's televised. We're all watching. Goes to the next one. Is that a good idea? Should we do that? Yes. Should we do that? I think he looked at three or maybe four and they all said, you know, "Yes." He goes, "All right. Yeah, I think we'll do that." Now did you see that moment where you watched him take a public comment and turn it into a policy? Because it was two words. Two words. What was it? Describe what you saw in two words. Common sense. Somebody gave him a total common sense suggestion, which apparently he had not noodled on before. He recognized it as common sense. He tested it with three or four people live. They all seemed to give answers that would suggest it's compatible with common sense. And then he said yes. It was in a weird way. It was the smallest thing that happened yesterday, but boy was it impressive. All right. You know, you maybe you have to be pro-Trump to be as impressed at it as I was. Was it Jack? Was it Jack Posobiec who mentioned the international thing? I didn't catch who said it. But anyway, if you've ever seen anybody president more impressively than that in front of you, I'd love to hear the example because that was solid presidenting right there.

And Nick Sortor was there with his semi burned flag. And Trump suggested that Bondi should prosecute the person who was burning the flag under the theory that I don't think is proven. So I don't think he would be prosecuted, but that the flag burner was the one who incited maybe more trouble. So the current situation, as I understand it, is that it's still 100% legal to burn a flag if you're only doing it to make a point, but if you're doing it as part of inciting violence or maybe some other kind of damaging trouble, then it would be considered inciting violence. So then it would move out of the free speech category into the special illegal category. So I don't believe I could be talked out of this, but I don't believe the flag burner made much difference to the overall event. I think it was just a sideshow at a bigger event. If that's the case, then I would not want that person to go to jail, unfortunately, then it's just free speech. But we'll see.

Remember I always tell you that one of the things I like about Trump is that if there are two positions to take on any issue and one of them is the strong position and the other is sort of weak he'll take the strong position every time even if it's not the winning positi

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on and this might not be the winning position because I don't know that there's enough to convict but he took the strong position and what you'll remember about Trump when all the fog clears is that he was the strongest leader. You won't remember that maybe that court case didn't work out. You'll just remember he always took the strong side and it was the strong side on behalf of America. You don'…

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