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to punish you for not signing up. So if you make it automatic it's actually safer for the young men because then nobody's going to say hey you didn't sign up so now you have to go to jail. They'll say oh everybody signed up. It's automatic. Isn't that better? So what you might have thought is oh my God instituting the draft is really just they took away a potential penalty for young men who for n…

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n Arizona looks like it's going to go to Trump when he narrowly lost it last time. If you add in the other candidates like RFK Jr. and Jill Stein whatever Trump has 41 to Biden's 37. And he's doing even better than Kari Lake is in her Senate race that's closer where she's just a little bit behind her challenger Ruben Gallego. So it's 44 compared to 41. So that's a closable gap. We'll see if she does because they're 10% undecided. Do you think the undecideds are really undecided if they vote? I feel like undecided is where you hide a pro-Trump vote because if you're pro Biden it's just safer to say it isn't it? Or it used to be. It's less safe now. But I think the 10% are likely to lean pro Kari Lake so she might have a little good luck if these numbers hold up. We'll see.

All right so here's the Trump update. Let's compare the Trump update to the Biden update. All right Trump is ahead in all the polls again so that's great. He's got the support of the most important people in business in the United States from Elon Musk through the bankers to the venture capitalists. They aren't just the business people in those entities. Those are the best business people, the smartest ones in all of those industries. It's kind of obvious now he has, to the chagrin of Democrats, he has basically pulled the Republican party together. I guess even Mitt Romney was in the group of people who met with Trump when he visited Capitol Hill. So even people who were very very anti-Trump before have softened up and coming around. People who said bad things about him right after January 6 have decided well maybe I took that too far you know. And you've seen that JD Vance. There are people who went hard at him and then later in the fullness of time and information when you know that wasn't exactly what it looked like was it.

So the other thing is that Trump is getting the support of men. The UFC I saw Tim Pool mention that Trump is getting the male vote. The Republicans I saw Greg Gutfeld mention it. I've seen it in other publications. It's now super super obvious that the Democrats are the party of women. The Republicans are the party of men. Not that there aren't you know men in the other and women in the other blah blah blah. It's just a trend not a universal. And Trump still is ahead on all major policy issues. I think if you took the top three they're all Trump. You know immigration, economy, Ukraine. It's all Trump. So that's Trump. So Trump basically won everything. And the only bad thing was somebody made up a new hoax that he insulted Wisconsin. An anonymous person said they were in the meeting and he insulted Wisconsin. And then when he was asked about it he just brushed it aside goes no there's high crime there. That's what I was saying. Now so that's it. So he was basically one little hoax that nobody cared about and all else went his way. Gigantically huge amount of money raising, a huge change in opinion about what people thought of all the lawfare. Everything's going his way. Everything.

Let's see how Biden's doing. Biden is seeking young influencers for his campaign which apparently is hurt by the fact that when you're trying to get TikTok influencers to back your campaign it doesn't work as well when you've just signed a bill to ban TikTok. That's right. So where Trump is brilliantly working the podcasts and raising gigantic amounts of money even from jail, Biden decided to use TikTok influencers and then ban TikTok. In other news he's continuing his world US embarrassment tour by wandering around like an animated statue in front of the other world leaders just in case you'd forgotten the contrast. So it's not bad enough that we show him wandering around like a dementia patient in the United States. No we had to put him on the stage where all the other world leaders appear to be functional even if you don't like their policies. They appear to be able to walk and talk and you see them up there and you say hey why is it we have the only leader in the G7 who can't walk and talk? So that's not ideal for the Biden team.

And the biggest question about Trump is whether the bad guys using lawfare will jail him before the election. But all smart people think he would win even from jail. Whereas Biden's biggest question is will he survive until election day or will he crumple into a pile of dust and the wind will blow it away before November 5th. So overall I would say that Trump's looking a little bit better. Winning all the polls, getting all the business support, winning men by a huge margin, favored on all the policies. But Biden is looking for TikTok influencers while banning TikTok. Idiot. Embarrassing the US around the world on camera so we can all watch it. And the biggest question is whether he's even healthy enough to survive until election day.

So what if he wins? I saw Greg Gutfeld ask this question. What if he wins? There's going to be some trouble. I don't recommend trouble. Yeah don't do anything. But how is the public going to accept that? It's just going to look like it's rigged. So there you go.

So it's all good for me because I'm one of those hot rodent men. Okay and the last thing is that the Secretary of State Blinken he said that the Kremlin is intensifying its hybrid attacks against NATO members. Now do you know what the hybrid attacks are? That would be like hacking and murdering people in suspicious ways. That's right. So do you believe when Tony Blinken says Russia's doing hacking and hurting the countries that are near Russia over there? How do they know it's Russian hackers? If I've taught you anything it's this. If somebody claims that Russian hackers broke into anything that's probably, I'm not saying that Russian hackers never have broken into anything. I'm just saying they'll never be able to prove it and it's always very convenient when it happens isn't it? Oh we're mad at Russia because of Ukraine and there's all these suspicious hacks. Well that must be Russia. No it might be but I would put zero credibility on any claim of Russia hacking. How about Russia hacking Hillary's emails? Nope I do not believe that that really happened in the real world. That looks like to me maybe I wouldn't say it's impossible but I think every claim of Russia hacking is in the really low credibility range no matter where it comes from. Even if the government says oh we've got tons of evidence can't show it to you but we got all the evidence. No don't believe it because Russia is just the scapegoat of scapegoats. So if somebody says hey we found a bunch of dead bodies we think it's Russia, uh maybe probably not.

The anti-semitic people on YouTube are just so animated every day. I have to deal with people telling me I don't understand history and if I did I would see the mass Jewish conspiracy. And I always ask I'm willing to listen to the argument so what do you got? And it's always nothing. So when I say okay well if you're making a claim what would be the evidence for that? Well Scott if you knew history. I go well okay why don't you point me to something. Well if you're not going to be educated. No just show me something. And it just disappears as soon as you ask for anything reliable or anything. So we're still talking about VP possibilities. Yeah TV heads are defending the Biden wandering around was not shown on mainstream TV. Yeah the people still watching mainstream TV are just lost. I'd love to see Trump say that. I'd love Trump to say you know you should lose all credibility in the mainstream press and you should look at at least the podcasters who are sort of the alternate news at this point. Yeah so is it the WEF that's controlling the world or is the Freemasons or is the gigantic Jewish conspiracy that you're all sure is happening but nobody has any information that they can share with me that would be not stupid. A lot of conspiracies. Well I don't know some of them might be true.

But that ladies and gentlemen concludes my Saturday amazi

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