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Back to episode — Episode 3008 CWSA 11/04/25

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r. I've told you before that if you were to summarize why it was that I supported Trump from earlier days, here's my reasoning. I don't know if I've ever said this explicitly, but when I looked at him, I said, we've never seen that toolbox before. He could solve problems that a president can't solve. A normal president, you know, a modern president might. But it was just obvious to me from almost…

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esting up to now. I don't know that that's true. But what would be the strongest thing, remember, we're talking about prediction. What would be the strongest thing that Trump could say in this domain? The strongest thing he could say is we're going to test nuclear detonations. Now, it doesn't have to be true because it's also part of a negotiation which he's queuing up. So he would like both Russia and China to think, oh, there's something that we need to get them to stop doing. And then he can he's invented an asset. So he's invented an asset as he always does before a big negotiation. And the asset is, hey, we're going to do this blast testing of nuclear. You surely don't want us to be doing this, so why don't we negotiate all of our nuclear dangers at the same time? So it makes sense that he would go for the strongest position right before negotiation. But do you see how well my prediction holds? If you simply said, what's the domain? What's the strongest thing a president could say and then you predicted that he would say that you'd be right most of the time. So I believe that my theory about him always taking the strongest position seems like reality because it predicts and it predicted twice yesterday. I mean it worked twice yesterday. That's a pretty good prediction.

So there was a question also on 60 Minutes and other places. Trump was asked about his pardon for the one of the founders of Binance I guess crypto site and he said weirdly that he doesn't even know who that is but maybe he was trying to say he doesn't know him personally or hasn't done business with him personally but he obviously at one point I don't think he said it yesterday but maybe or Sunday but maybe he did he thought that the reason for pardoning him was that somebody told him it was that Biden was going after him. So it's because Biden was going after him.

Oh, I gotta run in one minute. All right, we got one minute here. So yeah, there's a question about the two sons are in crypto, but I don't think anybody said anything illegal is happening. Forget about that one.

Trump is reportedly planning to send US troops and intelligence officers into Mexico to combat the drug cartels. What would you call that? That would be the strongest position. Again, predictable three times in a row.

All right. The rest is some scientific stuff about bacteria that eats battery waste. That's cool. Atlantis may have been discovered. That's cool. And Ukraine may or may not have been responsible for some Hungarian explosions. And that's all I've got for today. And I'm not going to have time to talk to locals. I got to run. Going to get some medical treatment. I'll give you an update tomorrow. Thanks for joining. Bye for now.

Oh, it doesn't work. Can't end my stream.