d in heaven it's so amazing. Adam Kinzinger is right about this. So there you go, Adam Kinzinger. Somebody that I would not agree with normally. But I associate with his following comments because if you don't like me associating and agreeing with Adam Kinzinger on a specific policy, you, but I know you don't. I don't know, none of you have that problem I'm sure. But here he is being right about something. Apparently there's some aircraft that the National Guard uses to track the drug shipments and fentanyl in particular. And it's going to be retired. And I guess Kinzinger is one of the few people who actually can fly that plane. I didn't realize he was in the National Guard. Kinzinger is still in the National Guard. Yes. All right, credit to him. So can we say that without, can we give a full-throated, patriot now? I hate what he did with January 6, right? But he's a member of the National Guard, and he's calling out a huge problem that this aircraft will be retired and then they won't be able to easily interdict fentanyl. So good job, Adam Kinzinger, on this particular issue. Which also suggests that the administration is not that serious about fentanyl because this plane is critical to their success of capturing stuff. And Kinzinger's fighting to keep this funded. So good for you. Hope that works.

Let's talk about Trump. Trump labeled Governor DeSantis with a nickname. He called him Ron DeSanctimonious. How many of you had to look up the word sanctimonious? I did. I did. Yeah, I did. So if it makes it any easier for you to admit it, I am a professional writer. I do it for a living. I never use that word. Yeah, so I had to look it up. So in case you don't know what it means like me, basically somebody who's showing a big show of religion or piety, you know, being the right person but being somewhat hypocritical. So somebody who's trying to be holier than you but they're sort of a hypocrite. Does any of that seem to fit Ron DeSantis? Does that feel like a kill shot? It does not.

Now how many of you were happy that he said that? How many of you said, oh, I'm glad he did that? None, right? Zero. So given that none of you were happy with that, almost none of you, let's say 95 percent if you were not happy with it, wasn't a mistake? Yeah, you weren't happy with it, but was it a mistake? Go. Yeah, it gets a little more complicated now.

Let me hark back to my Mark Ruffalo comment. Mark Ruffalo is not the one who should be commenting on business stuff, right? That's not his domain. And so we should all be humble when we're commenting on somebody else's expertise which we don't share. Now I always have a little concern when I criticize Trump for any of his persuasion related stuff because he became president. I didn't. Whatever he does seems to work even when you think it won't, right? That's probably the most remarkable thing about his method is that even people who support him think that's not going to work. Well that's not going to work. And then weirdly it works for reasons that you don't imagine. He sucks all the energy out, you know, whatever.

Here's what I thought. My first impression was, oh, that's a mistake. That's a mistake. He just went after one of the most popular Republicans who was 100 percent successful according to Republicans. So on the surface it's a mistake, wasn't it? But did you notice it was the worst kill shot he's ever issued? Is that an accident? Is it an accident that the kill shot he used against DeSantis seemed to be designed not to wound? It looked like a warning shot over the bow exactly. That was a brushback pitch. He just told the world you can run against me in the primary but it's not going to be pretty. That's, once you think about it a little bit, you realize it was just a brushback pitch. It wasn't really about DeSantis at all. You know, I'd be surprised if he thinks DeSantis does a poor job. I think he probably thinks DeSantis does a good job. He's also quite aware that people are saying, hey, why shouldn't DeSantis have the top job, right? So Trump knows he has to knock DeSantis down a notch. But I think he was just telling the world he's willing to do it, which is actually useful. He's basically saying, yeah, I'm not going to leave him alone. I'm going to go after him. But he went after him so softly that it's easy to pull back, right? It was such a soft brushback that that makes it look like it was intentional. Just a warning shot just to let you know that he's the big shark and if you go swimming with the big shark you're gonna get bit.

So I started hating it. And then the more I thought about it, it's like, oh God, he did it again. You did it again. He did something that I immediately disliked. But the more I thought about it, it's like, shoot, that does move the energy in his direction in just a slight way anyway. So always be humble when you're looking at Trump's persuasion because you never know exactly what he's up to. Sometimes it's smarter than you think.

All right, as we head into the midterms, how's everybody feeling? How is everybody feeling? What do you think about the economy? I think the economy will be all right. Yeah, a lot of you are feeling good but also nervous. I don't know what's going to happen. But I'll tell you one thing that might happen. One thing that might happen is there's tons of scrutiny and maybe we got way better at watching things. So we might have the cleanest election we've ever had. Like that's possible, right? Could be the cleanest one we've ever had just because of so much extra energy watching things. And there have been some changes. There have been some changes that should reduce the amount of cheating potentially. But the other possibility that I don't discount at all is that the extra attention will end up finding some real serious fraud. It could be on either side. I'm not going to say it's going to be all Democrat.

Because here's my opinion. The reason that we don't have elections that can be finished the same day is because we don't want it. There's no other reason. We, obviously we meaning both Democrats and Republicans, each of them having control over individual states, it's very obvious that they want the option of cheating. It's very obvious. Because if either side didn't want the option of cheating, they would just make the option go away in their state. Because there are places where the Republicans can design the system any way they want, right? Right? Give me a fact check there. There are states where the Republicans could have an Israeli type of system where it's all on paper and it all happens in one room. The ballots never leave the room. You count them in the room with lots of witnesses. And there's basically close to zero chance of fraud. You don't think that one Republican state would have implemented something that's just fraud free? No, it's because everybody who controls elections in their own stat