that word they can make you a criminal, right?

So they can look at Trump and say all right we saw you do a bunch of things and we're going to change the definition of insurrection to be what you're doing there. That's it. All they did is change the definition of an insurrection to make it look like you fit. Now you say to yourself well that's a one-off. That's a one-off, right? But it isn't. Because right as I'm being prompted in the comments, remember when he talked to Raffensperger? He said in the context of an audit he said you only need to find 11,000 votes to change the outcome. And the Democrats changed the word find into lie and cheat which was the opposite of what was in evidence. What was in evidence is they were talking about an audit. The person talking believed that the votes had been miscounted and miscounted against him and that all that Raffensperger needed to do is find the votes that Trump believed existed and had not been counted. That's it. Or vice versa, find some votes that were counted they shouldn't. And the Democrats turned that into lying and cheating. A common word, find.

And how about protests got turned into insurrection. And now believe it or not they are literally trying to convince you that the standard definition that has served us forever of a recession, which is two consecutive quarters of negative growth, is no longer the definition of a recession and that it must be looked at in a holistic way for the first time. We never did before but now they need to change the definition of recession so that the thing we're going to experience and observe with our own eyes and our own bodies isn't what it used to be. Now it's something else.

And a CNN headline — and I'm not making this up. This is going to sound like a joke. This will sound like it came from the Babylon Bee parody website. Swear to god I'm not making this up. An actual headline from CNN today. This is a CNN headline: Who decides if the U.S. is in a recession? Eight white economists you've never heard of.

Can you all join me in just a heavy sigh? I don't even feel like I need to talk about it do I? Because anything I say is your head is already there. So join me. I will read it again and I'd like to get a simultaneous sigh. This will be our first simultaneous heavy sigh. Okay and wait for the prompt. CNN headline: Who decides if the U.S. is in a recession? Eight white economists you've never heard of.

Moving on.

I think I saw this in The Hill. There was some publication, there was some study that says a new poll: the majority of Americans say the U.S. government is corrupt and almost a third of Americans say it may soon be necessary to take up arms against it. So one-third of — now remember that includes Democrats. So one-third means you know something like 80 percent of Republicans obviously are saying that.

Now again here's the context that the news always leaves out. When was the last time you were in the group of Republicans who did not say they might have to take up arms against the government? I think the proper context for a study like this is and we should note that 100 percent of Republicans 100 percent of the time say we might be getting close to needing to take up arms against our own government. Again it's the operating system of Republicans. It's not a poll. It's a definition of a Republican. If I were going to define a Republican in like a funny summary it would be someone who thinks that at any minute they're going to have to shoot their own government to keep them in line. Am I wrong?

A Republican by definition is somebody who thinks at any moment I mean I might need to shoot a government official to keep them in line. Not trying to, no I'm not talking about an insurrection. I'm talking about keeping the government from abusing you. There's nothing more basic to the Republican personality than yeah I gave my government some power. I'm not comfortable with it but I did keep one right. What does a Republican hate worse than giving powers to the government? Nothing. There's nothing they hate worse than that. But they did keep one right for themselves. The right to shoot those if they go too far. I mean it's really the right to own a gun but it ends up being the same thing.

So I'm not sure that we should do polls when all you're really doing is finding out the definition of a Republican and reporting it like something changed. I don't think anything changed.

All right. I would like to thank the January 6 committee for my victory. You know I've been saying since the beginning there's no evidence of Trump forming any kind of an insurrection. But I don't think I could have operated in society successfully unless the hearings had shown me correct. And now as Mark Levin has pointed out on his show I think last night, Mark Levin was saying the same thing I said which is nothing happened. There's no evidence whatsoever. And all the evidence we did get, the stuff that's new such as the knowledge certain that Don Jr. didn't know about any insurrection plan, that's for sure. We now know that there was no evidence and that I've been exonerated by the January 6 committee. So I would like to thank them all for their service.

I think they have some more special thanks to our representatives Kinzinger and Cheney who I have to admit I had a negative initial thought about their participation. But now that they've exonerated me and President Trump I would like to thank them for their service. Because there were some red flags there. I think we need to be smarter about agreeing when there's a red flag but understanding that doesn't mean there's really a crime. It just means there's something to look into. I'm kind of glad we looked into the Russia collusion thing you know given that unfortunately it was an allegation that was out there. We kind of had to look into it as much as I hated it. So I respect their service and thank you for clearing me and exonerating the president, opening up his path to the presidency, Trump that is.

So I think they've pretty much guaranteed his win. I don't think Trump could have won without the January 6 hearin