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he best. That's just the best joke of the day, right? I'm going to thank you if you feel what I feel now. Not in every way, of course, but this is a Zeitgeist test. All right, the Zeitgeist is that thing that we all feel but we haven't talked about it. It's the thing you see forming. There's an energy forming. It's in a certain direction, but nobody's quite talking about it yet. But it's in all o…

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us. I'll give you some examples as we go. All right, we'll just talk about the headlines, but watch how this thesis comes together.

Well, here are some things that I think you would all agree that Trump looks better today than he ever did, right? Immigration. As France is burning, do you think Trump is looking good on immigration? Never better. Never better. He is at the all-time peak of looking right on immigration. He's never been this high on immigration before. Not even close, in my opinion.

How about January 6? What about the stain of January 6? That was over him. Did that work out just the way the Democrats hoped it did? No, it did not. Because we live in a country where we don't trust that the people who are rounded up really did something that deserved it. We saw Hunter Biden getting a sweetheart deal while January 6 people got the opposite. Everybody noticed. Everybody noticed.

Do you think the Democrats didn't notice? No, they noticed. Even the Democrats. Well, actually I have a Rasmussen poll on this. 67 percent of voters believe it is likely that Hunter Biden received favorable treatment from the prosecutors because of his father. Two-thirds of voters. Two-thirds of voters said Hunter got a sweetheart deal. At the same time, the January 6 people, probably some of them still rotting in jail for not much. Now, of course some of them did terrible things. Nobody ignores that.

So let's see. How many people do you think don't think Hunter got a favorable treatment? And this time I'll say let's see if you can get it within three points. Within three. Let's see if we can get it within three. Try again. You have to get it within three. 28. That is right. 28.

Hey, how did you do that? That's amazing. So many of you got it right. It's 28 percent. Good guess. Yeah, 28 percent think it was a perfectly reasonable deal.

All right. If you're new to the live stream, there's a running joke that we've been doing for months. That for any important question, 25 percent of the respondents will have the dumbest answer you've ever seen in your life, or roughly 25 percent for anything. It doesn't even matter the topic. It's not the same 25 percent. It's not the same people. I don't know why it's true. I just don't know why. It's just very consistent that 25 percent are just wrong about everything. Different 25 percent.

All right. Let's see what else is going on. Have you noticed that the climate is not cooperating with the CO2? Which to me is one of the funniest things that's happening, because even nature is with the Democrats now. It's like they lost nature. You know, it's bad enough that you lost 67 percent of the general public. They just lost nature.

Remember when nature was on their side and the Democrats would say, hey, it's getting warmer because of the CO2. And then you check the temperature and you'd be like, damn, these Democrats got something going on here. This is warmer. And then the next year they'd say it again. You're like, well, you can't be right. Oh wow, you're right again. Shoot, it's getting warmer.

And then the last few years didn't really serve up what people were expecting. If you follow the hashtag climate scam on Twitter, you're going to see a whole bunch of claims of people who purport to have data claiming that there's no such warming. But at the same time, and I say this so I don't get demonetized, there are experts still claiming at the same time that the evidence shows warming exactly like they expect. So there it is. There's your totally reliable news of the day. That if you look at the data and you listen to the people who really have looked into it, they'll have completely opposite opinions of what even the data says. Forget about the hypothesis you put on top of it about warming. Forget about that. The experts, or at least the Twitter talking experts, can't even agree if it's getting warmer.

You think that'd be pretty basic. Is it getting warmer? Well, we don't know. Well, how about something easier? Are the glaciers melting, staying the same, or getting bigger? Well, as of this morning, the people who looked into it on the internet can't agree. They can't even agree if the glaciers are getting bigger or smaller or any

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thing. So I still think that CO2 probably adds to warming. I just don't think the projections about it are necessarily credible. However, this situation is very Trump-friendly, isn't it? Imagine if we go another year without anything that looks like significant warming. By the way, let me say carefully that would not disprove climate change. You could have five or even 10 years of not much warmin…

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