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Back to episode — Episode 3000 CWSA 10/26/25

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tty good. But would you want to see Pritzker perp-walked with handcuffs because he tried to stop ICE deportations? Would you be okay with that? I would not be okay with that. That would be a case of I get that it would be a real crime and I get that it could happen. I wouldn't be happy with it. I am happy when I see Trump going after the people who lawfared him. If they lawfared him, yeah, do wha…

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or the Bush vibe. There's like an extra thing that all those guys had. Even Hillary had the thing. But he doesn't have the thing. He just doesn't have the thing. Whatever that is that makes you look like a president. Kamala did. Kamala had the thing. She didn't act like a president, but she had sort of the charisma or the vibe or the just the feel of it. But he has lots of good points about what the Democrats should have done. They should have listened to him.

Speaking of old white Democrats, James Carville is off the reservation again and he says that Trump, what he calls collaborators, and I have to wonder if I'm one of them. Would he consider me a Trump collaborator? I mean, I think Bill Maher considers me on the collaborator team. He doesn't use that word, but would Carville consider me a collaborator? Because he said the collaborators should have their heads shaved. Okay, I do need to get my head shaved. Put in orange pajamas. Okay, I like orange and I do like wearing pajamas. So it's not so bad so far. Basically it's my normal day wearing pajamas and having a shaved head and then march down Pennsylvania Avenue. Well, I like taking walks. I like, well so far this is good. I'm getting exercise in my pajamas and then somebody shaved my head for free. Okay, where's the downside? There's got to be a downside to this. Oh, here it is. The public spits on them. Well, that's not good. That's after Trump leaves office.

Well, what I would do is I would declare if I were in this situation, I would declare a COVID emergency and I would demand all the Democrats wear masks so that they were only spitting on the inside of their own mask while I got some exercise taking a walk in my pajamas and somebody shaved my head for free. That's how I'd play it.

So now if I were to assume that Carville includes people like me on his collaborator list, what would be my incentive for arguing that Trump should not have a third term? He just gave me a reason to argue for Trump's third term because he's basically saying, looks pretty direct, that I will personally be punished if I'm alive and Trump gets out of office, they'll be punished for being a collaborator. Now, unless he wants to define this collaborator thing a lot more narrowly, wouldn't you think that podcasters who are reliably support him would be called collaborators? If this were Nazi Germany, I'd be a collaborator, right? Just because I'm on a team.

Well, maybe it could be that Steve Bannon's trying to stay in the jail for a second time and that he knows the only way to do it is if Trump stays in office because I do believe that the so-called collaborators and Bannon would certainly be on that list even if I'm not. They would be in for some trouble and it could be real life trouble as in go to jail as in lose everything you have as in lose your family. Is that what we're looking at?

Because James Carville, if that's what you're really promising us, if you're promising us that you and your clan are going to come after Trump collaborators, and you're not going to define in advance what a collaborator is. Well, you just flipped me to a third term. I'm going to make the change right now. As long as this is talking like this, I'm in favor for a third term. If you can calm down this I'll be on your side. No third terms for anybody. That's where I was 10 minutes ago. Now I'm looking at this and I'm saying, "Fuck you. If you're going to give this vague threat that when Trump leaves people like me are going to be victimized, yeah, we're going to go for a third term." And that's on you. That's all on you. Because I was absolutely 100 percent against a third term until right now. And the longer I look at this, the madder I get. Yeah, third term. Or shut the fuck up about this collaborator getting spit on. You need to take that back right away. And until he takes it back, I'm all down on third term. So got to put the you got to put it at stake now.

All right. Apparently the heist at the Louvre where the French jewels got stolen looks like it was an inside job. Of course. Don't you always assume it's an inside job when somebody pulls off an impressive theft? Yeah. So they think one of the insiders told them about the security problem and that that's how it all got done.

Moscow successfully tested some new nuclear-powered cruise missile. I guess because it's nuclear-powered, it can fly around all day. And it did. So that's scary.

We know who the donor was who gave the 130 million to pay the soldiers during the government shutdown. It was billionaire businessman Timothy Mellon according to the New York Post, Jeff Earle. I guess he's a billionaire whose family is worth 43 billion or something. He's part of the Mellon Bank heirs and he just wanted to pay that. So I guess he did. Bu

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t the part that's not being reported is that the Pentagon can't spend it. Apparently there's some regulation that would not allow them to use that money. So he gave the money, but it's not clear that the money can be spent. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is everything I wanted to tell you today. Not bad for a Sunday. I stretched that lack of news all the way to top of the hour. But I'm going to…

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