important. And now they have an alleged leader who can't attend in a practical way because he won't be invited or it might be too risky to leave the country. So in a real sense they've already lost their leader. I mean it's like he's a military commander now but the country doesn't have a political leader because the other countries that would need to treat him like a political leader are just not going to do it because they have these credible allegations of war crimes.

Now I want to jump in here and say because every time I say something like Russia's committing war crimes somebody who's pro-Ukraine jumps in and says Scott Scott Scott why you believe in the news and the propaganda? Don't you know that the Ukrainians were shelling the Russians in the Donbass and discriminating against them? To which I say I don't really know that. No. But I don't need to know it because if you're telling me that Ukrainians have done any war crimes against Russians during this conflict or even before did some bad things, well believe it. You don't even have to show me an example. It just sounds like something people do so I'm already there. I don't even need any evidence. Yeah it's a war. There are war crimes. Both sides. Yeah both sides most of the time or all the time. All the time. All the time. If it were only sometimes that wars produced war crimes then I'd be like let's look into this. Let's look into these details. Got to find out who's doing it who isn't. But I don't believe that do you? I just think war creates war crimes because the people that you send into war are the people who are going to do some war crimes and if they didn't start that way war can turn them into that kind of people. And I think that there are legitimate tradeoffs between saving yourself and saving your prisoners and people are gonna say well I'd rather save myself frankly. Thank you. Biden droned an innocent family. Well intention always matters so yeah intention matters.

I'm tending to think that it might be a good move branding Putin as a war criminal. He's never gonna be tried unless there's some kind of revolution in Russia itself I suppose. That's possible but I don't see that happening. I think Russia will just continue as a degraded country and that's it. It'll just be a degraded country forever or at least for a long time.

All right. I don't have much else to talk about. Is there anything I missed? Did you hear the story about the 75-year-old activist who was at, what, several years ago he was out there and the police were clearing the streets and they shoved him and he fell down and hit his head. Now there was some case against the police officer and the police officer has been completely cleared apparently. If you stand in front of the police and try to stop their progress they can push you out of the way. Turns out the police can push people out of the way if they're trying to stop the police from doing their job. Now I remember seeing that when it originally happened and people called me a ghoul for thinking I didn't see a crime there. I don't know if anybody remembers that. I had a pretty small audience at the time but I remember looking at it and thinking well what do you think happens when you stand in front of a police action? How do you imagine that goes? Was there a positive way that was going to turn out? I don't know. Now of course the fact that falling down and being pushed out of the way actually caused an injury that's not funny but I don't think it was the point of why he was pushed. I don't think they were trying to hurt him. I think they were trying to get him out of the way and I don't think that it was obvious that that was gonna be as bad as it was.

All right. The Hunter Biden case is heating up or is it? Or is it? Yeah he was a local provocateur. Is there a new troll who's not doing a good job over here on YouTube? I hate it when the new guy, he's not really trained on where my hot buttons are yet. He's just flailing. Can somebody train the new guy? By now everybody must know my hot buttons. I'm sure you can find them. Can't be that hard.

Am I still on prisoner island? I am not. I am not. And not that I won't go back. Prisoner island recalls us on a regular basis. You do get dropped on prisoner island every now and then. So let me tell you what one of my big issues was that apparently isn't a big issue. So I thought I had a hernia. It's a little inguinal hernia or something and I thought that would require surgery and probably really soon and it would ruin my whole summer and I really really needed a non-pandemic summer. I mean most of you do but I really really needed it. And I went to the doctor and the doctor said, and this will surprise you, it turns out that googling your symptoms is just as good as a doctor. Don't listen to anybody who tells you it doesn't. So I basically went in and said doctor I think I have an inguinal hernia and the doctor says let me see and it took the doctor like three seconds to say oh yeah that's one. And then I said all right what do I do and the doctor said well you know there's one group, listen to this this will dovetail into the actual live stream content that I do. It turns out that there was a study of one group of patients that always refused hernia surgery. Just one group. What do you think that group was? Who was the group who refused hernia surgery even when they had a hernia? Somebody says the Amish. That wasn't where I was going. And the answer is surgeons. Are we done here? Yeah the group least likely to get hernia surgery to fix it as opposed to just living with it are surgeons. And that's what my doctor told me. And so the new thinking is that you might be better off living with it unless it worsens. Right? There's some point at which surgery is necessary but mine really doesn't have any pain and you can't really see it so there's nothing visual. There's no pain. It just is something I know exists. I'll work around it and so I'll have a good summer. So I was sort of on prisoner island and thought I'd stay there but I just wasn't current with the best thinking on it and so I sc