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people aren't catching on that it's intentionally offensive. So they're reacting as though they don't know that they're the marketing. Anyway, ESPN's Stephen A. Smith, is it Stefan? I never know. Is it Stefan or Stephen? That name always confuses me. It can go either way, right? Stefan. I don't know. So Stefan or Stephen A. Smith says that the people going after Trump with lawfare are a bunch of…

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e. I think the odds are one in three at the moment. It has nothing to do with polling. It has everything to do with the outside sources. I think the odds of Biden simply surviving and the election is rigged and he wins in a rigged election is about one out of three. I think the odds of Trump surviving any assassination attempts and also getting a big enough victory that they can't cheat their way through it, one in three. No matter what the polling says. One in three or best. And the odds of RFK Jr. making it all the way to the presidency is about one in three also. Because I think the odds of Biden collapsing are pretty good. And I think the odds of the CIA taking Trump out with lawfare or something worse is pretty good. Good as in bad. So my current estimate is they each have a one in three chance of being president. And none of it has to do with the will of the people. Let me say it again. They each have a one in three chance and none of it has to do with voters. Because we don't live in that system anymore. If we ever did. It will be entirely determined by the capability of the people in the back rooms and the health of the current president. And that's probably all that will matter. If the people in the back rooms do a good job, well they get everything they want. It's probably Biden.

All right. There are a whole bunch of new sanctions being put on Iran because of the attack on Israel. Let me mention the sanctions because there are a whole bunch of them. There's the vague one. There's the one I don't know about. There's a well there's a complicated one. There's a well there's one that seems to not really affect anything but maybe a couple of guys. There's one that I don't know. It looks like it could make some difference but I don't really understand it. There's one that, okay they don't even tell you what they are. Do you believe that we have an infinite number of sanctions that we can whip out anytime we want? Is that the way it works? It's not like there are three sanctions that can make a difference and then there are a million sanctions that you could do but they're not really going to make a difference. I feel like it's more of that, don't you? Like there's a strong 80-20 situation that might be like a 99-1 where there might be a few sanctions that if you could get them to stick would really move the needle. And then there's probably a whole bunch of other ones where some rich guy goes, what you mean I can't dock my yacht at Washington DC? Well I'll just dock it somewhere else. Is that okay? That's perfectly okay. Okay I guess I got sanctioned. You know I feel like the sanctions are just because if they weren't they would tell us what they were and they would tell us whether they could make any difference. But no the news just says oh lots of sanctions, more sanctions. Oh I'll put some more sanctions on. How about we put some sanctions on. You should reelect me because of all my sanctions I put on. 53 sanctions. If 53 sanctions is not enough I could put on 50 more that will be unspecified and vague and you couldn't even tell if they make a difference. But if 100 sanctions isn't enough I could put 200 sanctions on. I could put 300 sanctions on. I'll put more sanctions on. That's the state of your news.

Biden tells Israel not to attack Israel. Sounds like I'm making that up but he said quote I made it clear to Israelis don't move on hia. H would be a city in Israel yeah. H. What do you mean Rafa actually. I don't think the misspeaking is as big a deal as others do. I don't think that's really the big sign he's losing it because I think maybe he always did that and Trump misspeaks and I misspeak and you know I misspeak twice a day. I don't think that's the biggest thing but they're funny stories.

Babylon Bee reports that Biden campaign has a new slogan. You know they tried a number of things. Build back better. No malarkey. None of those really felt like they captured the spirit of what's going on. But as the Babylon Bee reports the new slogan seems to really capture it perfectly. The new slogan is death to America. If you're not familiar, the Babylon Bee is a satirical news outfit. And what I mean by satirical and what I mean by parody is it looks exactly like the real news. No real difference.

All right. There's a story that a prosecutor in California, the California DA, dropped this so-called bombshell election data case because it might help Trump. So there's some whistleblower. So apparently there was some case about somebody involved with the electronic part of the elections had sent some data over to China. Some American election data sent it to servers in China. Now I don't know all the details of that story but the reporting is that the only reason they didn't prosecute is because it would have made a story for Trump to talk about politically. Maybe. I'm willing to believe that.

CBS News is reporting that some members of Congress who led the investigation, the January 6 committee people, that they've already told their family they've talked to their families about their safety and the risk of their arrest if Trump wins the second term. Do you think the January 6 committee is at risk of imprisonment if Trump wins the second term? Do you think they risk imprisonment for investigating him the way they did? Yes. Every one of them belongs in prison. And it's really obvious. Really obvious. You want some evidence? Well turns out you came to the right place. Here's some evidence that the January 6 people belong in jail.

There is a National Guard captain who's testifying to Congress and he says quote I can say unequivocally that the inspector general's review, that's the review of January 6 and all that stuff, is riddled with inaccuracies, misstatements, and perhaps false flags and narratives regarding how critical Pentagon senior officials responded when our republic was under great stress. So his claim is that the president of the United States had pre-authorized the deployment of 10,000 National Guard troops just in case things got out of hand. Now do you remember any part of the January 6 proceedings in which the public was informed that the person they said was trying to conquer the country had been in certainly, verifiably, documented, no question about it, had tried to get 10,000 National Guard people there to prevent any kind of violence? Now that's true beyond any doubt I think. And that would make the entire January 6 narrative that Trump was trying to conquer the country look ridiculous because he authorized 10,000 people to prevent something happening at the Capitol.

Do you know why those 10,000 were not sent in the end? Well according to the whistleblower is because the Pentagon delayed dispatching them over the concerns for the optics. The optics. What do you think would be the concern for the optics? Now it doesn't matter what they were thinking, does it? It doesn't matter if they were thinking something that was good for the country or bad for the country. What matters is the military is the one who left the government unprotected. Let me say it again. The US military intentionally and fully understanding the danger decided at the management level to leave the members of Congress unprotected.

Now smart people say the only reason you would do that is to make a case against Trump. No I'm not sure that's the only reason because you know regular incompetence and miscommunication and stupidity and you know it's a complicated world. But it certainly tracks like it fits the facts. I don't know if it's true but it fits the facts that the military was part of a larger operation to make sure that Trump was squashed forever and couldn't come back. But whether or not the military was thinking of a way to protect the republic or to just get Trump, that is irrelevant to the fact that we have conclusive multiple witnesses and documentation that President Trump was trying to protect the Capitol and he was prevented from doing that by his own military. Which is called what? An insurrection? What is it called when the military refuses an order from the commander-in-chief because doing the order would be good for the country and the commander-in-chief? I don't know. To me it looks like a coup. Looks like treason.

So to me it looks like the January 6 committee was covering up their own coup and that they should, that they're guilty of insurrection. And that it would be easy to prove because all you have to do is prove that the people who knew they could be protected chose the other path. And then they sold that other path as Trump's fault when it was 100% their own doing. If there's no crime in that then you might as well just open the jails. It's the most criminal act that I've seen since that video of the dead guy at the bank. Have y'all seen that? I think it was in Brazil or somewhere. Somebody wheeled a dead guy into a bank and pretended he was just sleepy to try to get him to sign a loan. Put the pen in his hand and holding up the hat. That the guy's just dead. He's literally just dead and he's sitting in front of the banker. And it makes you wonder what the banker is thinking. Should I check if he's alive because he looks dead? And he must have been fresh because he didn't have rigor mortis. Like he must have died within like an hour before he got to the bank because his head still was flopping around. So that was pretty terrible anyway. Not as terrible as the January 6 stuff.

So yes I believe that if Trump gets in office there's probably a whole bunch of people who need to go to jail over Ukraine and the pandemic and January 6. Not to mention whatever we might find out about elections themselves. So and I think it has to happen. You could imagine a time when I would have said you know I don't think that the president should throw in jail the other team because it's a bad look. Not if they do this. If the reason you're throwing them in jail is that they tried to throw you in jail on made up charges then yes. If you win you can put them all in jail. I think that has to be the rule. In fact we should encourage that not discourage it. If the thing you're putting your opponent in jail for is that they tried to put you in jail for nothing and got caught, absolutely they all belong in jail. Every one of them. So I'm down for that. And if that destroys the country and creates massive riots, I'm down for that. I'm down for that. Yeah. If all of like business shut down for months because it was wild, let's say protests in the street and violence and let's say even hundreds of people got killed, I'm down for that. Yeah. I don't want anybody to get killed and I'm against violence of al

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l kinds. But if you ask me would that be the right play to put them all in jail even at the risk of massive disruption to the economy, massive disruption to life as we know it? Yes that's totally worth it because the alternative is much worse. Much worse. All right. Colonel accuses senior officers blatantly lying to Congress about, yeah. I think Mark Milley has got a lot of explaining to do. All…

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