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this topic. There are some topics where I can take a valiant effort at being unbiased. I'm not sure I succeed, but at least I could take a shot at it. I'm not going to even try on this one. Not even going to make an effort to be unbiased. But I like the fact that I'm doing something so well that somebody's accusing me of being an intelligence asset. Are you following the story about the 14th Ame…

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's basically the evidence, is that a biased political process decided to use this. Now they're using it some more. So this probably always was their intended play, to get that insurrection thing branded on him so that the courts would maybe find he couldn't run.

Now do you think there's any chance, any chance at all, that this would hold up in the Supreme Court assuming it gets there? Does anybody think this would hold up? You know, the thing is, if you want to know what too far is, it would be this. I would expect violence. I would expect mass violence if the courts found that he couldn't run. I'm not recommending it. I want to be very careful, not recommending it, not a good idea. But this would be the sort of thing that would be like a Boston Tea Party. You went too far. So my advice to the Democrats is if you think you have any other way to win, you ought to push that one. This one will really upend everything if you get this. In the unlikely event that the courts upheld this, I think it's pretty much a long shot, but in the unlikely event that they did, be careful what you ask for because this is clearly and absolutely too far. There's no way that the citizenry would stand for this. So maybe that's what they want. Maybe they want to inspire an actual rebellion so they'd have more reason to lock up people they don't like. So don't do anything dangerous. Got it? Don't do anything dangerous. No violence.

But you know obviously there would have to be a strong reaction, right? There would have to be a very strong reaction. But violence is probably a losing strategy.

All right, Biden's approval according to a NewsNation Decision Desk poll found that 56% of respondents said they somewhat or strongly disapprove of the way Biden is handling things. 56%. That's a lot of people disapproving of a president. But by party, it's 85% of Democrats think he's doing great, 40% of independents. So it looks like he's way down with independents. And 10% of Republicans approve of Biden's job. Have you ever met a Republican who approved of Biden's job? I've never met one. Have you? Do you believe that one in 10 Republicans approve of Biden? Isn't that obviously wrong? I'm pretty sure it's zero. I'm pretty sure it's zero, like actually zero. How can I possib

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ly be wrong about that? So I don't believe the poll because there's no way 10% of Republicans think he's doing a good job. There's no way. It couldn't possibly be true. Anyway, if you break it down by age, you can find our stupidest citizens. Who are the dumbest citizens? Who are the dumbest voters? By age, by age, by age. Who are the dumbest voters? The young ones, right? Young voters are the du…

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