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Back to episode — Episode 2653 CWSA 11/08/24

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could get both sides to think that it means the election was rigged for the other. Pretty clever Putin if you're behind that. Well as others have mentioned when Joe Biden addressed the nation after Trump's win we've never seen Joe Biden look happier. You know I saw the comments about it before I saw him and I thought oh you're just being political so you're sort of having fun with it and you're j…

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ician's opinion of what the interest rate should be should be somehow higher priority than the Fed's because the Fed has that one job. But the politician is also trying to get reelected. So you don't want the person who wants to get reelected to say hey lower those interest rates when really we'd be better off with holding them higher for a little bit longer. So I don't think I want Trump to have control over the Fed. I think there's going to be some disagreement on that but I feel like that would be a better safeguard. Just have a little distance there even if they're not doing exactly what you want.

Well congratulations again to America First Legal. You know that's the Trump-friendly legal group that's pressing every legal challenge that they can all over the country. And they just won their lawsuit with Ken Paxton. So together with him there were a coalition of 14 states and they officially stopped the Biden-Harris administration's illegal attempt they say to grant mass amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. Good. Yeah. Now here's why I agree with this. It has nothing to do with amnesty. It has everything to do with I don't really like the administration doing some big last-minute thing that could affect me this way. You know if it turned out that the Trump administration looked at it and they said you know what after we've looked at all the ins and outs of this you know maybe we can grant some amnesty to some of these people I'd be okay with that. But I feel like it needs to be a Trump decision not the last-minute nonsense done by the administration that's leaving. So I would prefer it be decided differently.

Have you heard about the 4B movement? Apparently it started in South Korea and it's a movement telling women to boycott men. So in South Korea it's because I guess they've got a patriarchy that's a little too rapey and a little too anti-woman according to some women. And so

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they started in South Korea this thing you know don't have sex with men. And apparently this has spread to TikTok and it has to do with the election results not being the way they wanted it. And so some women on TikTok are saying they should be like 4B and not mate or date or marry or sleep with any men and certainly don't have children with them. It's called the 4B. Now would you like another da…

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