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Back to episode — Episode 3027 CWSA 11/23/25

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o I have this weird health care situation where for reasons I don't understand, I only get really bad problems on weekends. Do you have that too? You only get really sick or hurt on weekends. And then there's nobody whose job it is to take care of you. You have to go to the emergency room. So it's an hour to the emergency room. It's three hours waiting to see somebody. Then maybe I think they lost…

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t every time you woke up it's like a year from now am I going to have to get up and put on my makeup and drive to a prison? Is that actually going to happen to me? And it almost did. It almost did.

And now that fate has been returned to Letitia James who probably has to wake up every day and wonder what things look like a year from now if she gets convicted. Now probably there's no jail, but the conviction is going to be plenty bad if she gets it.

Well, according to the Center Square, Andrew Rice is writing that California loses one taxpayer per minute and Florida gains a taxpayer every two minutes. Does that sound true? Do you believe that California is losing a taxpayer every minute while Florida is gaining two? Well, let me tell you something also from my perspective as the guy who used to make the PowerPoint slides. As I said earlier, this is not the sort of thing anybody can really measure. I would not believe the accuracy of these numbers at all. Now, could it be true? Yeah, it could be. It could totally be true. Do you think that any of us could really measure that in a way that you'd feel comfortable you'd measured it correctly? Nah. No. This is a classic I'm going to make a story. Nobody's gonna ask too many questions. Sounds right. And since it sounds right, people will assume it is right. But I'm here to tell you that's not the sort of thing that anybody can actually accurately measure.

Apparently the Texas Governor Abbott, according to Center Square, also he wants to issue some directives to make I think he's trying to make Sharia law illegal in Texas. What do you think? Do you think Sharia law, the Islamic version of a justice system, do you think that that should be made illegal or is it good enough that we live in a system where that's not your system? Well, I like the instinct to make it illegal because you don't want to play with, you know, you've got two systems. You know, they're about equally good. Why don't we use this one sometimes and this one another time? No. No. You gotta nip that in the bud. You got to get that early. You cannot allow that to progress to, oh, we got two systems. Well, why do we always have to use the one? How many people do we have in the state that would like that other system? Well, look at that. Look at all those people who would be happy to use that other system. We'll just use it a little bit. We won't use the whole thing. We'll just take a bite out of it. No. How about no. Hard no. No. No. No. None. You can't start mixing those systems. It doesn't mix. You go

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t to commit. So I think Texas has the right instinct there. I saw an article that didn't seem like it would be relevant to the United States, but now I'm thinking maybe it is. So apparently Poland, which is doing well sort of in general, it's one of those countries that has not been, let's say, too impacted by immigration because they've been tough on migrants. But even they are running out of m…

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