racist white supremacist dictator monster, if they didn't cheat they need to explain that. And if they're not willing to cheat in 2024 they need to explain that. Why they're not on the side of the country right now. They might be mistaken in their beliefs. I believe they are. But they're not acting on their beliefs in a way that you would even imagine could be slightly patriotic, slightly positive, even slightly worthy of praise. There's a real character problem if they're not willing to act on their beliefs. Or maybe it's telling us those are not real beliefs, right?

I've said this before. If you're standing in the middle of the street and you see a truck coming at you and it doesn't look like it's going to stop and you don't get out of the way, that's somebody who doesn't believe there's a truck because they didn't get out of the way. But if you get out of the way, well that means you believe the truck was there, right? So if you're not acting on the thing you believe, there's something going on. So if they said Trump was a big old racist dictator who was going to destroy the world, they say that very clearly and often. If they were not willing to act on it, what's wrong with their character? And I think you could be asking that directly. Isn't your character defective? Like why don't you do something about that?

So the analogy, let me teach you how to use analogies. An analogy should tell you exactly one point. It's not trying to be the same as the subject you're talking about. The one point from my analogy is that people will act on what they think is true. Will you accept that somebody standing in front of a moving truck will act based on what they believe is true? Is that really a truck coming at me? Don't tell me the analogy is wrong if you don't know how to understand an analogy. There's just one minor thin little thing that an analogy tries to do. And if you go beyond that and say well those are not exactly the same thing, well then you should not be in this conversation at all.

Now if I may criticize myself, why am I using an analogy when I know they don't work? Because there are too many people too dumb to process them. Case in point, somebody who's too dumb to process an analogy. I keep making the assumption that my audience is smarter. You can handle that. But some people sneak in on YouTube who don't understand how analogies work. Oh your analogy is not exactly the same thing as the thing you're comparing it to. If it were the same thing then there wouldn't be any point.

Let me give you an analogy the way this gentleman would like you to see them. I'd like to talk about this little power pack, this little extra battery. I'd like to make an analogy by comparing this to this identical one because that's a good analogy. So we'll compare this to this identical one and everything I say about this one will be true of this one. What is the point, right? No, the analogies are supposed to be different. All right, if you don't get that part you should find a less challenging podcast.

All right, Rasmussen tells us that the midterms are narrowing just like everybody told you would happen. Did I tell you that by the time election day comes along that the polling that said at one point Republicans had a nine point advantage of a generic Republican against a generic Democrat in the midterms, nine points, and then for a while it hung around eight and dropped to five, but five is still pretty big, and now it's down to three. So we went from nine to three.

I'll get rid of you for just being a jerk. Goodbye.

All right, so why is it that it's narrowing? Why is it that I knew it would narrow, that the lead would narrow, and then it did? Why is that? That's an honest question. Why was it such a big gap and now it's narrowing? Is it the media? Because it seems to me the January 6 thing fell apart. The January 6 thing showed apparently no crime for Trump and no insurrection planning. So he has a free path to the White House. You would think that all of these things would make Biden less popular.

Here's what I think it is. There was a Rob Reiner tweet that said provocatively that Biden has accomplished more in his term so far than any president in 60 years. And I read that and I thought actually, you know, I think it's a little hyperbolic but it's directionally probably true. If you look at the legislation that Biden has done, if you look at the impact he's had on things, I would say he's accomplished a lot for his base or he's on the cusp of doing so assuming his latest legislation gets through. If you were to just look at his legislation it looks like he will have his name on some pretty big pieces of legislation right now.

Don't confuse accomplishment for things you want. I'm saying things his base wants. I feel like he has moved the bar on some things that his base wants. So we've got gas prices coming down at the moment. That should make a difference in the vote. We've got inflation is bad, but we also might get used to it. It's weird but you can get used to something that just sort of lays there in the baseline. And I worry that although inflation may stay high, if it starts drifting down all before the midterms that will be enough. If inflation will say inflation is 9.5 today, whatever it is, it's in that range. Now let's say that drifts down to six percent, still way too much, right? But let's say it drifts down to six percent before election day. It's going to take all the energy out of it because you're going to think to yourself, well it looks like it's under control and it could easily drift down a little bit. It wouldn't take much. It just has to directionally look like it's going down.

So I think that Biden's got legislative successes, at