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Thank you. It's a pleasure to meet you, Shel. Thank you for joining. That was a heartfelt introduction. We're so glad to have you as the protector of this community and the guide for us all. Thank you. So did anybody happen to catch any news? Has Iran fallen yet? No. Still standing and they're being defiant. They're threatening to fight back really hard right now. Now I can't hear Marcela. Is that because you have your mic off or I do? Turn on your mic. Sorry, I didn't see the mute button. Good morning. Good morning, Shel. Thank you for being here. You're amazing. No, it will fall. And I'll tell you why. The main reason is that in the previous protest, it was just the youth that were protesting, women. But what he's lost, Khamenei has lost support of the middle and upper class, the merchant class. And that is what keeps him going with funding and money. So yesterday he made a speech to the nation to tell them that whatever they were doing was against the law and against God. And basically that means that anybody could be shot on the spot and executed for protesting, but people are still going out doing it. It's been forty-six years. They are tired. They just want to do it. And I think what pushes them is Trump, you know, knowing that they have Trump there. But I'll let everybody else speak. So we don't know how to add Owen yet. In theory, let me get back to that, Russell. In theory, if we add Owen but he doesn't turn on his camera, he can be anonymous. Is that true? Still figuring out how to add him. I told Owen that he could wear a mask. Oh my god, that's Sergio. That's mean. Hey Scott. Hi. Hi my bird. Josh. Hey sir. That's awesome. So you we're talking to right. Ye

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ust the first act. If we don't succeed in building some kind of a government with Venezuela that is not only works for the Monroe Doctrine but works for the locals and does not cause us to have some war with boots on the ground, well if all that happens then it'll be one of the most successful operations of all time. But Megyn points out that we don't have a great reputation for building other countries up. I would argue that we did a good job in Japan helping them become a thriving nation. I think after World War II we did a good job in Germany to the extent that we were helpful on that. So it's not impossible that when you're talking about Venezuela, pretty educated place, pretty westernized, that we could make that work. And probably only Trump could make that happen too because I think he knows how to make a deal. He's smart enough not to disband the government like in Iraq, which was a failure. So yes, I'm with Megyn Kelly. That first act 100%. The first act was impressive. To me it looked America first. To me it looked like a genius strategic play. But we still have to wait for the second and third act. It might get tougher before it gets easier. All right. Vivek Ramaswamy has apparently announced that he's going to not be on Instagram and X for a while. I don't know how long, but he says it's too easy to give a distorted sense of the public's concerns. Now that's a true statement, wouldn't you say? That if you're on X, even though X is the free speech champion of the world, that you still get in your bubble. So it does form bubbles. There's no way around it. And I do think that if you got all of your sense of what the public wants from X it probably would be distorted because even Vivek would be in a bubble of some kind. Not of his choosing, it might not be the bubble he wants, but it just happens because of the way algorithms work. But here's my question to Vivek that he will never see. What is a better way to get to the truth? At the moment there's nothing better than X. And I would say there's nothing close. I wouldn't trust AI. Maybe someday, but I don't trust it now. I wouldn't trust the mainstream media. I wouldn't trust anything. So while his concern seems spot on, I'd love to know what he thinks is the alternative. What alternative is there? Well, we'll see. We'll see if that lasts. According to the FDA, the FDA approved a little device you wear on your forehead that gives you some electrical signals and can turn off your depression. So apparently it's been well tested and passed the FDA's bar. And what it is is like a little headband thing that knows exactly where to send these low-intensity transcranial direct curr

Episode 3064 CWSA 01/06/26

to publish. I got to tell you, we guessed pretty well. We made a good guess, which means that we sold almost all of them, which means that if you know anybody who wants one, they better order it right away from Amazon. Amazon's the only place you can get it. The Dilbert 2026 calendar. Act now before they're all gone. I don't think we're going to print more. So get yours. Well, apparently there's some enormous storm coming or has already hit. So a weird thing happened, which is because Christmas was on a Thursday, a lot of people said, "Okay, Friday we'll do the in-laws party and Saturday we'll do o

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ews. Speaking of DEI, the California Globe, Katie Grimes is writing that Governor Newsom, I didn't know about this, but apparently did you know that California had an equity task force that had recommendations on how to take land away from white farmers and distribute it to non-white farmers in California? You probably thought I said South Africa, right? In California recently, this is recent, the governor was behind a task force that was trying to figure out how to take the farms away from white people and make it more equitably distributed. Now do I think that it would be great if farms were equitably available to everybody? Yeah, that'd be great. I have no problem with that. However, if you already have a situation where a bunch of white farmers own farms, you don't want to get there by taking it from them or forcing them to be unable to buy farms and then just saying the only people can have a farm from now on until everything's equal are either Native Americans or some other disadvantaged group. How is that going to turn out? How much do you think the efficiency of the farms is going to decrease if you artificially say we're going to take the experienced farmers and we're going to block them from owning farms or decrease their impact on the farms? But we take these inexperienced farmers, not for any it's not their fault that they're inexperienced, but we're going to move the farms to people who didn't have as much experience. Again, it wouldn't matter if we were talking about only Albanians. If you take the farms from the Albanians who know how to farm and you give it to the Albanians who don't have the same experience to farm, what is going to happen to the price of food? It only goes one way. You know, nobody doubts how that's going to turn out. And that's happening in my actual state in the current day. So there's no way that that is anything but going to drive up food prices. And I guess the report from this group recommends the development of local ordinances to restrict citizens from purchasing land unless they're part of certain minority groups. In the United States, in the United States, you would be blocked from buying land based on your ethnicity in 2025. It's unfucking believable. All right. Well, here's an update on the voting machines. I've told you before that one of my favorite sources for following up on the allegations of voting irregularities is the Rasmussen Reports on X. And I don't have a sense of what kind of allegations about the voting machines are true and what ones are not true. But the allegations themselves are really interesting. And here again, you can decide how much of this is fact and how much of this is just allegation. I do not make any claims of fact because I don't want to get sued. But here's what the Rasmussen Report has summarized and updated us. You may have heard of all these individually, but when you see them all in the big list, it's kind of impactful. All right. So on X Rasmussen Report writes that Smartmatic that would be the software people were federally indicted in October. So indicted doesn't mean guilty, but they were indicted. Then Dominion, that would be the hardware company, was quote sold in September under secret terms. I wonder what that's about. And the election systems currently in use have reportedly been newly examined by feds and are apparently full of illegal Chinese sourced components. So again, that doesn't mean that the machines are rigged, but you have to wonder why they have Chinese components in them that might make that possible. So remember, these are allegations. I don't know what's true. And allegedly, according to Rasmussen Reports, Tulsi Gabbard is being prevented from publishing her completed official report about the voting machines. I don't know why she would be prevented or who would prevent it. The former secret Dominion/Huawei data center in Belgrade. Do you remember that part of the story? So the allegation is that somehow the rigging of the machines was executed by going through some kind of Belgrade server system that somehow rigged the election. But now the key engineers hold on and that secret data center in Belgrade that officially and emphatically did not exist. I guess at one point the government said it doesn't even exist. Turns out it did exist and it was allegedly disabled by US government employees. I don't know what they were employees of. Were they employees of some intelligence agency? I don't know. But US government employees disabled it just prior to the 2024 election and it has now been dismantled. So I've heard the claim that that's the only reason that Trump won is that these government employees disabled the mechanism for the cheating. Again, I don't know that that's a fact. It's an allegation and apparently the engineers that were allegedly involved in that are joined by this former Venezuelan intelligence person who is now in jail. Okay, that makes him suspicious but and that they're collectively they're cooperating with federal authorities. So that would suggest that the feds are on the trail of finding out if or if not those machines were being rigged. Again this is Rasmussen Reports their summary says after rejecting over two dozen traitors our three-letter agencies are now supposedly helping find bad election actors but they remain unreliable because their own direct criminal involvement. So what that's saying is that there is in fact some effort to get to the bottom of this but there are too many people who are in charge of getting to the bottom of it who are at the bottom of it. So they would slow down things so that their own bad behavior does not get caught. And even so some of the bad people have been weeded out there are so many of them that they may still be holding up the investigation. True. I don't know. Official state and court adduced evidence of election fraud has been compiled now for every one of the 2020 battleground states, but cowardice and corruption within the American judiciary has completely paralyzed justice. So again, the allegation is that the evidence of a rigged election are there, but that the people whose job it is to make something of it are either afraid or unable to do something with it. I don't know. The Department of Justice has been forced to sue multiple states to require their compliance with federal election laws. That part is true, but again we don't know if their lack of compliance is evidence of rigging or it's just more of the Democrat plus Republican fighting stuff. There's a weirdness about the Tina Peters case in Colorado. And then there's an armada that's setting off of Venezuela. So could it be true that one of the things that Trump wants from Venezuela is a full accounting of their alleged role in rigging our systems? What if Maduro said, wait, wait, don't attack. I've got an offer. I'll tell you everything I know about rigging of your systems. If in fact there was any rigging I'll tell you everything we know if you don't attack my country. What would Trump do? What does Trump want more than proof positive that the 2020 election was rigged? Probably nothing. It's hard to — well, I'm exaggerating, but it would certainly be something he'd want a lot. Would he want it enough to assemble an armada? Maybe, maybe because I got to tell you, it's pretty important to me. I would say it's critically important to me to get to the bottom of whether our elections were rigged. And do you remember how easy it was for me to penetrate the truth? Let me say it again. With no knowledge whatsoever about any of these specific allegations, I have be

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at, which I guess was still floating, and tried to salvage the drugs that had not been blown up. Now, if you climb back in the boat, and the boat is still afloat and it still has, I don't know, half of its drugs there, why wouldn't they be allowed to shoot again? That pretty much would be a continuation of what it was that got them missiled in the first place. So if the first missile made sense, the second missile made sense because they had not finished the job. So ABC News is very much supporting the administration's point of view without saying they're doing that, but factually it would support their version that the job wasn't finished. All they did was finish the job, which I think would be completely allowed. I'm no JAG or military guy, but it seems to me that's all you need to know. If a full boat was a problem then half a boat was a problem too. So we'll see. And then I saw that Senator Mark Warner was on one of the shows, Morning Joe I guess, and he said that in many ways the uniformed military may help save us from this president. What? Seriously, a sitting senator is saying in public that the military might be how we save ourselves from this president. Does he not know that sounds like an insurrectionist or a sedition or a coup or something terribly inappropriate? If you're even suggesting in America that you need the military to control your president instead of our current situation where you have a military leader of the military, you have a civilian leader of the military. Does he really not know how that sounds? Because to me it sounds like the worst thing you could ever say in public if you're a sitting senator. I mean, seriously, name one thing that would be worse than that. He could say something racist, but then that would just be his problem, right? He could say something that's not true, but that would be business as usual for a senator. What could he say that would be worse than suggesting you might need the military to take out the president or somehow control the president? I can't think of anything that would be worse than that. That is the dumbest, most dangerous thing you'll ever hear a senator say. Unfreakingbelievable, but it happened. And then I'd like to tell you this story. You know, this one right here that my printer has completely hidden from me. I'll bet it was a good story, but we'll have to go without that today. Meanwhile, Rasmussen reports, who you should follow on X, they've been following the whole election integrity thing and especially the Venezuelan Smartmatic connection. Now, because I don't want to be sued, there's nothing I'm going to say next about this story that I know to be true. These are allegations from other people. And apparently we have some Venezuelan general is in a US jail and the general he was a three-star general in Venezuela and he was among other things he was the director of military intelligence right so that's pretty serious job Venezuelan three-star general director of military intelligence and he wrote a letter to Trump saying that the Smartmatic system can be altered and this is a fact. He said this technology was later exported abroad according to the United States. So he says that quote I do not claim that every election is stolen but I state with certainty that elections can be rigged with the software that would be the Smartmatic software and has been used to do so. Now, why would he be doing that? Now you can't really trust it, right? You know, you're not going to trust the jailed Venezuelan general. If there were a type of person to not trust, I would say, well, put at the top of the list a jailed director of military intelligence from Venezuela. So I'm going to say his credibility is as low as you could possibly get. However, and I'm assuming that he's trying to angle for maybe a pardon or something that I can't imagine why else he'd be doing it. But that doesn't mean it's true. It does mean he was in a position to know if it's true. So I think you could say for certain that he knows whether that's true, what he's saying. And it seems like our FBI or somebody should be talking to him and hooking him up to some lie detector and maybe see if they can catch him in some kind of inconsistency or something. But I'd sure like to know if there's anything to it, wouldn't you? Does it feel to you that the election stuff, especially the voting machine stuff, does it feel to you a lot like climate change used to where you knew there was something wrong, but the entire world seemed to act like there wasn't something wrong and you just felt like you were in some kind of weird not real situation because I would say to myself, you know, this climate change stuff. How do you not see that this is maybe not every part of it, but isn't it super obvious? And yet most of the people would be on the side of a thing that looked to me like super obviously fake. Now, I don't have any specific knowledge that our elections were rigged, but I do have this thought, which is a very powerful one. What

Episode 3036 CWSA 12/04/25

Now, there might be some obvious exceptions, like if you're buying something that only has one ingredient, you know, it's not necessarily soy, but if you have anything that has multiple ingredients in it, oh yeah, you're eating soy. So I don't know if the soybeans and the soy oil have the same impact, but beware. Akira the Dawn has released a little preview of another piece of music that features me as the vocalist. It's so funny to hear myself say that, that I'm the least musical person in the world. Yeah, I play a little bit of drums. That's about it. But to live in a world in which Akira the Dawn has incorporated my podcast voice as sort of a layer in his music, it's kind of really innovative and fun. And I guess he's going to drop the album that would have a number of songs that he put together like that that would feature my voice and his music. So that's coming December 19th. But there's a preview if you want to see one of the new ones that's on my feed or you can find it on Akira the Dawn's feed. Anyway, did you know, well you're going to know in a moment, that according to Newsmax, Mark Swanson is writing that according to a poll 63% say a four-year degree is not worth the cost, and that more than six in 10 registered voters think a four-year degree is not worth the cost according to a new NBC News poll. Now, so the respect, I guess that's the right word, for a four-year degree is sort of at an all-time low or at least in modern times it's low. Do you think that that is, first of all, a good representation of reality? I think it is a good representation of what people think about the college degree. But do you think they're just being influenced by the fact that it's too expensive? And if you ask somebody who doesn't have one, what are they going to say? If I did not have a four-year degree and you asked me today how important is it, I'd probably say totally unimportant. Yeah, you shouldn't get one. And then I'd go off and get one. So I had an advantage. So here's my advice. It's probably not essential that you get a four-year degree, but it's a competitive worl

Episode 3033 CWSA 12/01/25