s to think this was extortion? What would cause them to think that? I think one thing that would certainly cause you to think that is — wait for it — if you were Matt Gaetz and you knew for sure that you had not been involved in any sex crimes, right?

If you thought you had been involved in sexual crimes and these people said we have a way to maybe help you get out, wouldn't you be a little bit interested in talking to them if you've done the crime? Because if you've done the crime and allegedly there's an investigation, you know there's witnesses and you know there's real evidence. Now you know you're in real big trouble. You would at least listen to the offer, wouldn't you? Yeah, you would.

The only situation in which you would say my God, this looks like an obvious scam is if you knew there was no crime. Thank you, Kevin. Yeah, and I haven't seen anybody mention that. It seems to me that given that these documents and the offer from the two lawyer people were kind of sketchy, the way they handled it was as if they didn't believe there was any crime. That's the way they handled it. That means something.

They didn't handle it as if, well, maybe there is a crime here. They handled it like no crime existed. That's the way you'd handle it. This must be a scam because there's no crime. They're trying to extort me over no crime. You go right to law enforcement. But suppose you had done the crime and you knew it. Is the first thing you do get law enforcement involved? I don't think so. It doesn't quite fit, does it?

So I would say the documents are quite exculpatory. But we are far from knowing the final conclusion to any of this. I'm just going to say that the Gaetz situation is looking better for Gaetz every day and worse for his accusers. But we'll keep watching this.

Meanwhile, World War III has begun. I don't know if you've heard about this. World War III is underway. And I'm not even kidding. There's an actual world war that just hasn't started. Apparently the way it's begun is that China has started to capture Philippine fishing territory by just moving 220 fishing boats to fish. But they're not exactly there to fish. They're really there as part of the military to occupy until they have so much functional control of the sea that for all practical purposes China owns it. Which is what they're doing to the entire South China Sea.

It's hard to see that as not World War III because they are literally conquering territory. It just happens to be ocean territory and they're doing it directly with assets. It's obvious. There's no question about it. It is World War III. They are absorbing enormous swaths of the Earth and putting it under Chinese control. Parts of the world that people think China doesn't control.

Now the thing that makes it a little different than say a normal world war, a little different, is that China might need that ocean to feed its people in the future. So apparently it's very rich in fish. And I don't think that they want to control it just for export. I think that China has a massive problem feeding its people just because there are so many of them and they probably need that fish in the future. So it's not like a regular war of conquest. It might be a war of necessity.

And I don't know what historical precedent there is for a war of necessity or presumed advantage slash necessity. It's a little different but it's a similar strategy they're using that Russia used in Ukraine where you send in, I guess the Russians sent in what were called the little green men.