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Back to episode — Episode 3010 CWSA 11/06/25

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dy is being sued because it's unconstitutional to have racial gerrymandering. Now, if they say, "But we're not doing it for racial reasons," then the argument would be, "Then why does it look exactly like you are?" But it's really just Democrats getting more and Republicans getting less. And that's just politics. That's not race. That's just politics. To which I say, and yet there is one other co…

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n't get in that situation. So that's CBS being racist allegedly.

So I saw Mamdani. By the way, it turns out that whoever is in charge of the dictation software on my Apple devices really hates Mamdani because if you use the dictation feature, it says either "mom dummy," as in a mother who's also a dominatrix, two words, or "mom dummy." I swear to God, I'm not making this up. It actually says "mom dummy" or "mom dummy." Those are the two options you can get with voice. So all morning I've been cursing at it like, no, oh no it's mom, mom, Mamdani, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-di m anyway.

So Mamdani had a new phrase which reminds you that it's not luck. It's not luck that he got where he is. All right. There's something else going on and it's not luck. But here's what he said. He said that he promised that the new age, he calls it, of relentless improvement where the government will solve all your problems according to the Post Millennial. Now he didn't say the part about we'll solve all your problems. That was narrative. But he did say relentless improvement.

Now you want to hear a real persuasion secret. So this is behind the curtain stuff. This is stuff nobody else is going to tell you all day long. You'll hear about Mamdani. And unless they heard this from me, you're not going to hear it anywhere else. You ready? Whoever came up with the phrase relentless improvement, if they're also the same person, this is an if, if that's also the same person who came up with affordability as a

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keyword, that's who's in charge. That's who's in charge. Because whoever can operate at that level, that's way above normal political level. That is wizardry. That is total persuasion wizardry. This phrase relentless improvement. Compare that to how he's being attacked. Now again, if you're new to me, I'm not supporting Mamdani. If anybody's new, I'm not down with Mamdani. I'm just talking about…

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