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Back to episode — Episode 3065 CWSA 01/07/26

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gram that's been accused of putting ideology over core skills. The New York Post is reporting on this. So apparently if you took a reading course it would incorporate anti-ICE stuff, racial identity politics and all-male drag shows, resulting in criticism from a leading education watchdog. Now of course the people behind it are not going to call it that. They're not going to call it the we're goi…

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wearing, but they don't know how to do it right. Once again, she just inserts a swear word where it's not really helping. And she acts like the dumbest person in the Democrat party, but I'm sure she's not. Yeah, I think she's got some advanced degrees and stuff, but she sure acts dumb and can't even swear right.

Well, I got to take a sip before I give you this one. This is a beauty. You should take a sip too. I'm not making this up. Candace Owens is telling about her long-running conspiracy theory that there are sentient human hybrids because she watched the X-Men cartoons as a child. So what she's saying is that there are some people among us who are part human and part machine already. She goes further. She also names names. She claims Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Palmer Luckey, etc., and other Renaissance men are half machine. She's not sure if they bleed, but she can tell that they don't know how to act like human beings. Have you heard that before?

Well, here's my take. Candace Owens is so entertaining. If you accept her hypothesis as some kind of fact, you're probably not on board at all. But if you look at her entire package of content and you say, "What's the most entertaining thing you could hear?" Well, she's really good at that. She knows how to make something entertaining. And sure enough, once again, s

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he did. I could not look away as soon as I saw the title of it. Oh, I'm going to click on that. Now, what you don't know is that I was also influenced by the X-Men. And you probably noticed that I'm now a duplicate of Professor X. I'm a wheelchair-bound bald guy that people listen to. So I might be an X-Man. How else could you describe my incredible predictions? Here's one that's got too many na…

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