ed them or jailed them or something. Somebody says no, he would probably hire them, etc. Possibly. But you know, I'm not saying that I could confirm, obviously, that that's what happened. But it does look like the most likely because I can't see an argument for why we would have lifted sanctions, especially when it happened. And if Putin had shut down these hackers himself, I don't know that we'd hear about it because it would be more of a behind-the-scenes, you know, spy versus spy situation. So there's at least one possibility that Putin whacked them.

Here's something interesting. Apparently the European Union is going to put into play some rules that allow vaccinated people to travel but not so much unvaccinated people. But here's the weird detail. You would have to have a vaccination that came from the EU or the US, but you could not come into the European Union if you had a Russian or Chinese vaccination. Wow. They won't let you in the country if you're vaccinated if it's a Russian or Chinese vaccination. That's sort of a big deal, isn't it? I didn't realize that those other vaccinations were that weak. I knew they were weaker, but I didn't know they were that weak. Yeah, so it makes you even wonder if they're real vaccines, doesn't it?

And I tell you, I'm a lot less worried about the dominance of China when I see stories like this. Really? China couldn't put together a vaccine that worked, but Europe and the United States could, several different companies.

I also think that maybe we shouldn't be worried, at least in terms of some kind of attack on the homeland from China having a big navy. How long does a navy last when two superpowers get into a shooting war? Doesn't the navy on both sides just sort of disappear in an afternoon? I feel like I can't believe that our navy, with even with our carrier force, defensive perimeters, our ability to shoot down missiles in a variety of ways, even with all of that, I can't imagine that either the Chinese navy or the US navy would still be in business one day after a war started. I think they would just all be gone. Now I think it would just turn into an air war by the end of the week. So I'm not too worried that their navy is getting big, although that certainly would help them dominate their oceans over there. But they would be dominating it against weaker forces. I don't think it would be a direct military threat to the United States more than the fact they have nuclear weapons. You can't get much more dangerous than that.

Somebody says satellites would be targeted first. Maybe. I would love to know what our ability to target satellites is. I'm sure we have some. Where do you land the aircraft? Yes, you're making lots of jokes about semen. I see you. I can see your chat. If you're just asking if anybody can see it. Yeah, Space Force is going to be a real big deal in the future. And if we don't control space, we're going to be in trouble.

All right. Now, since we've learned that the news that there is is all fake and boring, is there anything that you'd like to hear about that I haven't mentioned? Is there anything you wanted an opinion on that I haven't mentioned so far? Maybe this week. Of course the big question is if there are aliens, would they use Bitcoin? I think they might.

And I guess there's big news now from Ford. Ford is introducing their F-150 truck as an all-electric vehicle, which apparently will make a big difference in an uptake of electrical vehicles.

What about the border? Somebody says, well, does it feel like there's a blackout on news about the border? Because there's a blackout on news about the border as far as I can tell. Do you know where the migrant kids are being held? I don't know. Maybe we know where some of them are. Do you know if the numbers are going up or down or why? I don't really know. So I feel like the big change about the border is we stopped talking about it.

Now, when are we going to see all of the big problems from immigration? When I look at the infection rate in California for the virus, can we conclude, and this is a question, I'm not even speculating this is true, do we know that California is maybe not doing as well as other states because of immigration? Do we know that, or is that just me guessing?

Kevin, I tried to read the book 1984, but it is such a downer that you get a few chapters in and you just say I would rather do anything than spend a minute looking at this. And I don't feel like I would learn anything because we're all aware of the concepts in it.

Oh yeah, the Abraham Accords. It's amazing that the Democrats are trying to make the Abraham Accords look like some kind of a failure. They are so successful. Not a single country that's part of the Abraham Accords has turned on Israel even though there's a shooting war going on.

SMR investment, I don't understand that comment, but thanks for the super chat. What was my emergency yesterday? I can't tell you what it is just because it's funny and unimportant. Let's just say nobody was hurt, but there was something that needed to be dealt with right away. It just couldn't wait. But it wasn't an emergency in a bad situation.

Why did taking mushrooms make you more creative? Probably. Now there's no way to measure such a thing, but anybody who's had an experience with hallucinogens and mushrooms in particular, they probably will say it did. I would say that it, how did somebody actually guess? That's weird. Somebody actually guessed what the emergency was.

NFTs are tanking, somebody says. Yeah, crypto's on fire right now in a bad way. Justin says Michael, the US expects a significant de-escalation by Israel. Well, did he see the story that Israel is trying to target the top Hamas commander? I don't know if he's the number one guy, but he was described as a guy with one eye, and he's lost three limbs so far, all of these because of Israeli attacks that wounded him but didn't kill him. And when you heard that story that he only has one eye and one limb, I don't know if it's one arm or one leg or what's left, but did it remind you of the Monty Python knight? You know what I'm talking about, right? There's a knight in the Monty Python, Life of Brian or whatever it is, whichever movie that is. And yeah, it's only a flesh wound as the other knight lops off his arms and legs. Come on, come on, it's only a flesh wound.

So if Israel is planning to de-escalate, the only reason I can imagine that would be true is if they've dealt all the damage that they think they can put on the other side. Now I understand there are rockets coming in from Hezbollah, which would suggest that they would have to open up a second front, etc. Yeah, he goes by the name of Lucky.

What does everybody think about the midterm election coming up in 2022? Is there anybody that thinks Republicans won't win the midterm or at least win? I mean pick up enough seats to have control maybe of both bodies. Let me see your estimates of whether Republicans will win back both houses in 2022. I feel like it's obviously going to happen. Now history suggests that this would be normal, that the first midterm after election the party in power loses power because there's more to criticize about them, etc. But when you throw in taxes, Biden taxes, and you throw in border stuff, and you throw in some other stuff, I don't feel as though Democrats can hold Congress. I don't feel as though they can.

Now there also might be some interesting revelations from the various audits and all that, but I wouldn't count on it. Maple Bob, you are welcome. I crashed the crypto market by buying some, and so now the rest of you have a buying opportunity. That is correct, if Coinbase ever gets back online. Yeah, I think we're in the 80 range that the Republicans will take back control. So I stopped worrying about my taxes going through the roof under the Biden's suggested plan. I'm a little less worried about that because even if it does happen, I believe the Republicans will reverse it if they get control. And I also don't think, I just don't think they're necessarily going to even get it through the Congress the way it is right now.

Are we ignoring the election BS? Well, I'll tell you this. I feel as