Back to episode — Episode 2555 CWSA 08/03/24
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there's something deeply unreported about this. There's something about the story we're missing, and whatever that is is going to be interesting, but we'll probably never find out anyway. Don't believe the news. Speaking of the news, Russia allegedly, here's another one I don't believe. So I saw this on social media, so I'll tell you what it says but I don't believe it, that Russia is going to bl…
← Previous segment →at they could actually execute. I don't know what there is. I'll tell you what they won't do. I don't expect them to kill a high-ranking American or military officer. I don't think they're going to take a head shot at Israel because again that would be full war.
So I think it's inevitable that Israel will have to attack Hezbollah directly and massively. I don't see any way around it. It's just when it happens really. Could it happen this month or next year? It's just going to happen. I would rule out any possibility it doesn't happen. I don't think that's even in the option set anymore. That's my guess.
Iran is apparently, allegedly, who knows if this is true, arrested more than two dozen people that they think might have been knowledgeable or possibly complicit in this assassination in their country. And I say to myself, if they arrested two dozen people, doesn't that mean they're going to torture them all? I mean if they arrested them but they don't have evidence that they were involved, it sounds like they're just grabbing everybody who would know anything and then they're just going to torture them all.
Can Iran really get away with torturing two dozen of their own people, of which I would guess no more than one of them might have been involved? It feels like that's kind of a big risk for the leader. Because if you're in the military and you just found out that two dozen people got scooped up for interrogation and you know for sure that there couldn't be more than one of those people who knew anything about this, you'd feel pretty mad at your leadership for treating you like you're expendable. I don't know if I could ever get over that if I saw my beloved leaders in the military, people I respected, get scooped up when I knew for sure they were not involved in this because they just wouldn't be. I don't know that I could ever fight for that country again if they ever wanted me to. So Iran has more problems than I've seen anybody ever have a problem. I don't know how they're going to navigate this.
Let's talk about politics. Is anybody amazed that the top two Democrats that the entire Democratic Party could put together, the top two, now I'm not talking about the VP yet, I'm talking about Biden and then Harris, the top two, what is the one thing they both have in common? This is unusual for a national politician. Nobody thinks they can answer a question. Just hold that in your mind. The two best people that the Democrats could field, Biden and Harris, nobody on either side, not a Democrat, not a Republican, believes they're capable of standing in front of other people and answering basic questions about their profession and what's going on. How did we get here?
Yeah, this is a great lesson on you can get used to anything as long as it happens a little bit slowly. We just got used to it. How in the world do the Democrats put up with having their two best people unable to talk in public? Literally the most salient part of the job, and we're just like, we're just going on. So today, after I'll say this, I'll say the two best Democrats, one of them likely to be the next president, and they can't talk in public. You could almost throw a dart into a crowd and guess somebody who could answer a question in public. I mean you have a good shot at it anyway. So that's amazing.
But there was apparently some kind of accidental leak out of the Philadelphia mayor's office. Some staffer released a video that would suggest that the Democrats already know that they're going to be choosing Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, for their VP candidate. So I think we're all acting like that's a done deal today even though it's not official, but we're going to talk about it like it is.
And let's talk about the fake news first. How many of you believe that Josh Shapiro once served in the IDF, volunteered and then served in the IDF, that would be the Israeli Defense Force, the military in Israel? How many believe that's true because social media said it was true? How many of you believe that's actually a real thing? It's not a real thing.
All right, let me say it so that you don't embarrass yourself, because a lot of people on the right are falling for this pretty hard. Here's what was true. In high school, his high school had s
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ome kind of a program where they had to volunteer for something. So he and some other students volunteered, remember this is high school, these are just kids, volunteered to go to Israel and they worked on a kibbutz or something. But part of it is they volunteered to do some work for the IDF. They weren't in the IDF. They were like unpaid interns sweeping sidewalks and doing stuff like that. So he…
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