doubling down and wrote another editorial saying Biden should step down and be replaced with some chosen candidates that would be better. Now let me see if you recognize the system. What would the system be called or the country that does it in which there is a democracy, there's definitely a vote and the vote is even fair. The vote is completely fair as far as you know. There's no cheating. But the candidates that you get to pick are selected by let's say one or just a handful of the elites. So you don't get to vote for anybody you want. You get to vote for one of let's say five people that were handpicked by some higher authority. What kind of system would that be? Would you call that a democracy with a republic kind of a structure? Would you call that the American system? Who does it remind you of? The correct answer is Iran. That's exactly Iran's system.

So the Ayatollah, presumably with consulting of the other top mullah people, the Ayatollah says these five people can run for president. We will have a totally fair election. Nobody complains. I've never heard anybody in Iran complain that the election was rigged. Maybe they do. I just don't hear about it. But their intention, I believe their actual legitimate intention, is to run a fair election because any of the five people have already been vetted to be okay with the Ayatollah.

Now what is it the Democrats want to do? They want to get their elites, Obama, Bill Clinton, few other people like that. They want them to quickly put together a list of five candidates to do a little blitz kind of a primary. That's Iran. That's the Iranian system.

Now how would you like to be Trump and you're running against the Iranian government system? Trump won his place fair and square. Trump destroyed sixteen challengers the first time and however many challengers there were this time. It's Trump anyway. So I heard the best argument yet for just somebody on X who wanted to take a shot at the best argument that Trump will become a dictator in his second term. But he didn't become one in his first because Republicans like to say why are you so afraid he's going to become Hitler when you saw an entire term and he didn't become Hitler. And here was the best argument. All right I'm not saying I agree with it. This is the best argument. That in his first term he didn't have the option of stacking all the government entities with his own people. So he had a lot of people who were kind of frankly anti-Trump in his own administration. So if he tried to take any kind of dictator power there were just so many people in his own administration who wouldn't be up for it that it wasn't really possible. But he's had time since his first administration to consolidate power. So all the Republicans are under his control or at least the ones in key departments and stuff. You know the Attorney General will be, the Supreme Court are his nominations, etc. And that by consolidating power which he's done over time his second term would allow him unprecedented power to become this dictator that they fear.

What do you think of that? By the way that's the first time I've heard that argument and I have to say that at least it has some bones on it. You know at least it's not just some you just made up by sitting in a room and imagining things. I mean there is a reality. I would concur with the assumptions. The assumptions that he's consolidated support and it will probably show up in this administration. That seems fair. But here's the part that's missing. Please describe to me, and you saw this with January 6 where people said can you describe to me how that protest could have turned into taking over a country? What was the mechanism? Was the person with the nuclear football going to say whoa looks like we got new leaders, here's the football? Like describe it in some way that doesn't sound crazy. You can't. There is no path that a bunch of protesters in one building takes over a country. It's absurd.

Now let's do the same thing with Trump. Imagine Trump decided to do some dictator stuff. Do you really think the government's going to be okay with that? See it could be the things that maybe Democrats think are dictator, Republicans would think would be normal Republican policies. So there's some of that. But under what situation could Trump remain in power for the rest of his life and get away with that? The Democrats have never met a Republican I think. Maybe never met one because there's no Republican who's okay with a Republican dictator. None. The whole Republican situation is the Constitution. The fealty is always to the Constitution. And why do they like Trump? Because he's compatible with the Constitution. The moment he became not compatible with the Constitution he would lose one hundred percent of support. He would lose Don Jr. He would lose Ivanka. Not and I don't mean that as hyperbole. He would literally lose his own family support. There is no situation in which he can just say I'm eighty-one years old I think I'll be the dictator. Nobody's going to say yes to that. Nobody in the military. Nobody in his administration. His own chief of staff would shoot him, whoever it is, right? Like it's the smallest risk I've ever seen of any risk in the United States. The smallest risk. There's none. But you have to be deeply gaslit to think that there's a path between some protesters moving electric and controlling the nuclear triad or that Trump has some let's say strong leader tendencies and then somehow the entire Republican party would cast off the Constitution. What kind of thinking gets you to that? That's a complete misunderstanding of boundaries. Complete misunderstanding.

Anyway Rasmussen did some polling on media bias. Sixty-one percent of likely voters think the bias in the news is getting worse. Forty-five percent agree with the statement that no matter how much you hate the media it's not enough. Forty-five percent. That's almost exactly Republicans. Twenty-eight percent disagree. Twenty-seven percent not sure. So that means that more than half of the country wasn't really noticing that the media had become the enemy. Hadn't noticed. Now I didn't do the twenty-five percent thing this time because the disagree and the not sure I think they should be lumped together as more than half of the country.

All right, you can tell what news people are watching if they're not so sure that the media is a problem. It means they're only watching one source and they believe it's true. God I feel sorry for them.

Well speaking of the news I'm going to call this episode, this next story, Doocy versus dummy. So is it which Doocy is it? Peter or Steve? Peter. It's Peter Doocy, right? The young one. And he asked this of Karine Jean-Pierre. Biden is the sharpest before eight hundred p.m. So say that the Pentagon at some point picks up an incoming nuke. It's eleven p.m. Who do they call? The first lady? Who do they call? The first lady? Do you know what's funny about that? That is the correct answer. Because if you're going to wake up the president and you know the president may have some medical issues you're actually going to call the first lady. That is actually the person you would call. Like no joke. Absolutely seriously they would call the first lady because she would be the one to make the call whether the president can make the call. Like if you're in a hurry you wake up the first lady. You say here's the deal. Do you have any chance of getting him coherent in the next ten minutes? And the first lady says either yes or no. But you do call the first lady first. That actually was a perfect question and I think it was right on point. I do think literally it wouldn't make any sense to call the president first especially if they're in the same bed if they are.

Well Biden is so confident that Google is biased that he says Google. He did a post on X that just said Google Project 2025. Now that's the Heritage Foundation has a big list of what they think a conservative president should do if elected. Trump has said hey that's not my plan. You know my plan is this plan. And he gives the Republican platform. Now there are some differences but also a lot of overlap because it's Republicans, right? Of course one big plan by Republicans is going to have a lot o