Back to episode — Episode 3055 CWSA 12/27/25
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explain why some of the public still thinks that the economy is bad. It could be because they're just being blocked from seeing the evidence that is good. Now, I don't know if you've had this experience yet, but if you watch news from the right leaning places, it will universally say, "Man, this economy is good." From inflation to employment to GDP can't beat it and they'll have numbers to back i…
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So the allegation here is that the mainstream media has to hide the truth because the truth would tell people that the economy is doing well. Maybe, maybe. The other possibility is that the Democrats have some data of their own. And since most data is fake, even if you agree with it, most data from the left, most data from the right, it's hard to trust any data. And in 2025, 2026, it feels like no matter where you're looking, you're getting weird data.
I'm seeing in the comments, where do you get your news, Scott? I gave a long description of where I got my news the other day because that's a good question, but I do sample CNN and MSNBC now and I always listen to Jessica Tarlov on The Five. So I try to get both sides and especially clips, you know, so I get clips that show both sides. That was a good question. So the answer is I sample both sides or try to.
So an online — I don't know if he'd be an influencer or an independent journalist or what you call him, but somebody called Nick Shirley put out a video in which he went to Minnesota and looked for fraud on his own because
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there have been allegations that the Somalis especially have been stealing mass amounts of money. And I guess he was trying to figure out how hard it would be to spot the frauds. And the answer is it is alarmingly easy. So he went to a number of places that alleged that they were taking government money and using it for charitable reasons and almost every one of them was a storefront or an empty…
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