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Back to episode — Episode 2597 CWSA 09/14/24

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hey don't want him to win. They've decided they're going to make him win. It's a decision now. Everything changes when it's a decision. We are out of the preference stage now. Tens of millions of people just said if you can't do it we're going to drag him across the finish line. And you can feel that now. This is about Trump of course but the energy that he's been storing for years in his base jus…

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s under each arm running from Haitian gangs and stuff. You cannot be unaffected by that. And it's not a surprise that it's becoming a huge meme. The memes probably are breaking through on TikTok and some other places to get to Democrats. Association is one of the major rules of persuasion. If you associate with, I'm seeing now pictures going by, the memes of him with dogs and cats and they're all adorable. I love every one of them. But association is one of the main levers of persuasion.

And without Trump doing that intentionally, his base with all the energy that he put there over the years decided they were going to use that energy to pair him with cats and dogs, lovable, beautiful, wonderful cats and dogs. And I can't even imagine a better persuasive wave than that association.

Now here's the opposite type. Today the news is going after Laura Loomer for having been on Trump's jet when he went to the debate. Now what they're trying to do is they're saying we're going to associate you with Laura Loomer so that whatever bad feelings we can make about her we can extend that to you. Oh, why were you hanging out with this person who said these things? Now we don't, none of us have to agree with anything that Laura Loomer has said. But I love the fact that Trump is a pirate ship. And if you can help him and you're all on board he doesn't have to agree with everything you've ever done in your life. But can you help the country? And that's where Laura Loomer is at. She's definitely working as hard as she can to help the campaign win. We don't agree with everything she has ever said. I don't believe that Trump agrees with everything that JD Vance has ever said. I don't believe he agrees with everything that Vivek has ever said, although they're pretty close. I don't believe he agrees with everything that Kennedy said, not everything. But can you work with them? Yes. This is the America I want.

If you're telling me that you don't like that Trump is okay with Laura Loomer being on his pirate ship, my response to you is do you not understand what a pirate ship is? Do you think the pirates are judging each other? No, no. They have a mission. The pirates are trying to get something done and that's the mission. So if you're going to worry about the associations you go worry about that. The pirates are going to load the cannons and get something done. So I've always loved that about Trump. That he can say if you're on my team then bring the things that are good and we'll work with that. If there's stuff I don't like, well that's sort of your issue. It's not for me to solve it. Why can't you live in a country where everybody's diffe

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rent and sometimes you like it and sometimes you don't? That's the America I want to live in. I don't care that my neighbor, I mean take my neighborhood. Do you think they all agree with me on politics? No. Do I love my neighbors? They're awesome. I got the greatest neighbors. I'm so lucky. That's true. I just have amazing neighbors. But none of us are worried about who agrees with anybody about p…

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