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Back to episode — Episode 3036 CWSA 12/04/25

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here were some secret documents about a new tank that the United States was producing and some of those documents allegedly disappeared, the plans for the tank, and that soon after China, where Walz had a history of visiting quite often, that soon after China produced a tank that looked just like the one that had the stolen plans and nobody knows where the plans went. Now, is that enough to say t…

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and we've got climate change that maybe it's not so scary. But is that a coincidence? Is it a coincidence that some of the biggest factors in the world are all starting to conform around my opinion of what they are? I don't know why. Am I good at predicting or am I living in some kind of simulation where my opinion is becoming reality? I don't know. But it's getting hard to ignore, isn't it? How often my opinion is matching what you observe, but eventually not right away.

Well, according to an ex-climate alarmist, as he's being called, somebody named Tom Harris, he says that wind turbines, windmills, require fossil fuel backup plants that continuously burn 90% of the time and that basically that means that the wind turbine is just for show. So this is a guy who used to be an alarmist who now has I guess gone to something like my side of it. And he's saying that now I'm not sure exactly what he means, but what I think he means is that since the windmill is not churning all the time, it would have to be paired with something that is churning all the time just so you have energy all the time. So it's hard to believe they don't add anything, but his take is that you're getting literally nothing from a wind turbine because by the time you spend enough money to build the thing and then you put it in and they've got lots of maintenance problems and then you need some kind of backup power anyway that's a different kind of power. Once you've looked at the whole picture, Trump is right again. Trump is right. The windmills are a hoax. He got that right, too.

I'll tell you the one thing that Trump does better than just about anybody is that man can spot from a thousand miles away. Now, it could be because he's good at making up his own BS, but wow, is he good at spotting. I mean literally you can see it from you can see around corners when it comes to that stuff.

All right. You know the SNAP program, the SNAP provides funds for people who can't afford to buy food and it's a federal program and the feds asked the states to give them data on the people who receive the SNAP benefits apparently so that they can do an audit essentially to find out if the people getting it are the people who should be getting it because it's a lot of money involved. It turns out that 21 states, all Democrat controlled, coincidence, have decided not to give the federal government information on who gets the SNAP benefits. But I think all of the Republican governments have said yes and are cooperating.

But what we know is so far, and I'm sure these numbers will grow, the states that did not comply, they found 186,000 dead people with social security numbers being used. They found half a million people that received benefits more than twice. And multiple people received benefits in six different states. So the SNAP program is just wildly fraudulent and the Democrats are protecting the frauds.

Can you think of any reason that they would not provide that information to the people who are giving them money? If I can give you one piece of advice, if someone gives you money, in this case the federal government is funding the SNAP program in the states. If somebody's giving you money and then they ask for a little detail about how you're spending it to make sure it's not all being wasted, if you don't give them that information, you're a fraud. There's just no way around it. You're a fraud.

Now, you might have some Democrat argument about, oh, if we give you this information, you'll find some way to discriminate against minorities or something. But it just looks like they're protecting fraud. So I'm going to assume that there might be a little bit of a kickback situation where the politicians are getting a little taste of this fraud somehow. Otherwise, they wouldn't be protecting it, but they're very clearly protecting the fraud. Democrats.

Meanwhile, MSNBC is reporting that Ken Dilanian, who is an NBC guy, is reporting that Letitia James is going to be indicted again. So she was indicted before, but the indictments got dropped because there was a challenge to whether or not the prosecutor was correctly and legitimately appointed, but it didn't create any kind of double jeopardy kind of situation. So they just had to get a prosecutor who was legitimately selected according to everybody and then they can just go at it again. So Letitia James will not have a good holiday because she is now going to be indicted.

In other news, the cost of apartments has gone down 1%. Which doesn't seem like a lot, but if you compare just from October to November, now that doesn't seem like a lot, but if any kind of major cost goes down at all, like ever. That's worth noting because you don't expect them to ever go down. Seems like they would just go up and up and up. And people are quite reasonably saying that the reason that apartment costs are going down is probably not because the supply has increased. As far as I know, there's no reason to think the supply of housing has gone up, right? Especially for rentals. But what has happened is that two and a half million people have been deported and they all live somewhere. They weren't living on the street. So the competition for rentals, the kind of thing that you would expect non-residents to be in, they'd be more likely to be in a rental than buying a house. So probably this is the first sign of the Trump administration's deportation creating an economic benefit for at least in terms of lowering costs. Don't know that that's why it is. It might be 1% could also be just noisy data. So it's possible that this won't hold up for another month, but I think it might.

In other news, that Biden era fuel rule. So Biden had created a set of standards where you had to have your car on average you'd have to get 51 miles per gallon if you

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had a gas car that you were selling. It would have to reach that standard. Now I don't know about you but that seems like if they could have done that they would have already done it. So some people were thinking that that standard would have made it essentially impossible to sell a gas car in the United States by what year? I forget what year but it's within 10 years I think. And Trump administra…

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