it to be meaningful and actually make a difference in somebody's life. And it did. Even after I'm no longer married there's still some benefits that trickle on.

So anyway I don't know why I'm babbling on about that. It could be because it's a slow news day. It's a slow news day.

Well there's more information about the attempted assassination in Butler, PA where the local police offered the Secret Service drones and the Secret Service said no. The local police offered a communication plan that would allow them all to be on the same communication channels. The Secret Service said no. The locals wanted to have a meeting with the Secret Service so that they would all have the right planning and procedures in common and the Secret Service skipped it. Huh.

And then the people who were from the Homeland Security people who were filling in for the Secret Service, 'cause there was a shortage of people that day, were only given a two-hour online training and it was pulled from child exploitation cases. So basically the people were replacements who were untrained, turned down drones, turned down communication which would be the most basic thing you'd want to get right, and skipped the meetings.

And here's the question. Remember I said early on that there was a good case, there's a good chance that whatever happened was a Dilbert situation. Meaning it was ordinary people and you put them in a situation and there's always a pointy-haired boss and there's always a Wally and there's always just normal human interactions which ruin everything. So we have not ruled out that there was some shenanigans meaning that the shooter was somehow co-opted by somebody else. So it still looks suspicious as hell, right? So I join you in saying I don't think we'll ever know what happened here unless it's another one of those 60 years later like RFK Jr. or like JFK. I mean so we'll see, we'll see.

So the Department of Justice have charged the Hamas leader and some other militants over the October 7th attacks. Why are we bothering to charge from the United States the Hamas leader? Does that allow something to happen that Israel couldn't do? Because I'm pretty sure he's dead no matter what you know. And if Israel never catches them it doesn't matter what the United States did. If they do catch them it also doesn't matter what the United States did because Israel will do what they're going to do. Same with the other militants. But maybe there's some way that we can freeze their assets overseas or something. There must be some advantage to it but I don't know.

You remember that Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale and everybody said show us her journal entries to find out why she did that. Well it turns out, by the way is Audrey trans? I can't remember. I think Audrey was trans. I'm not sure. But Audrey was very happy and excited about killing innocent people and was just crazy. So according to the journal Audrey was very excited to kill young children and to also be killed. So if you're very excited to do these things then I just have to say that's mental illness and that's the beginning and the end of the story. Unfortunately that's just serious mental illness.

Well, a big surprise. Mike Pence will not endorse Trump. Okay, is there anything to say about that? Were any of you expecting Pence to endorse Trump? That would be a pretty big turnaround from his past behavior. So no, I don't think Mike Pence would pick Trump. Trump didn't pick Mike Pence so that's no surprise.

Meanwhile over in Michigan the Michigan Court of Claims judge Yates has ruled that RFK Jr.'s name will stay on the ballot. Now keep in mind that RFK Jr. wants his name off the ballot. So why would the state put somebody's name on the ballot when the person on the ballot wants to be off the ballot? I'm sure they had a good reason. So let me read the reason from the judge. Quote, elections are not just games and the secretary of state is not obligated to honor the whims of candidates for public office.

So when Kennedy said can you take my name off the state election thing, that was called a whim, a whim of a candidate. No I don't think it's a whim to cancel your candidacy in the state. So I think you have the same opinion I do that Michigan is rigged. So you don't have to wonder if the election is rigged because here it is now. Is this enough to change the results of the election? Potentially we don't know that. But there is some suggestion that the reason that the states want to keep RFK Jr. on the battleground states is because they think it'll hurt Trump. Now if that's true I would say the election's already rigged in this way. Am I wrong?

So I think the yes or no of whether the election is rigged is now answered. It's a yes. They rigged it in front of us. There's no apologies, no explanations. Something about the whim of the candidate isn't exactly a reason. So we have reached the point where they can rig it right in front of us. Right in front of us. That's what this is. It's rigging right in front of us. And then you'll go to jail if later you say it was rigged. You'll go to jail probably because it looks like they're getting pretty tight on this whole censorship stuff.

But if you're worried about the election let me tell you that they're, let me just tell you some things to set your mind at ease. 'Cause suppose that keeping RFK Jr. on the election doesn't make that much difference. Might not make that much difference. So really it would be other things that you'd worry about. But you don't have to worry about the election being rigged unless you see any of these things. So I'm going to tell you the signals that you should worry about but until you see one of these signals don't worry about it. The elections are fine.

All right, so these are the only things you should worry about. Let's say you heard that the election would involve voting machines in some places instead of just paper ballots. Well that would be something to worry about. That's not a guarantee of anything rigging but definitely I'd worry about it. Why are you doing that? If they didn't require IDs to vote, well I mean that'd be a pretty strong signal they plan to cheat. But until you see that don't worry about the elections. If they had massive mail-in voting, well that would be a problem. I mean that would be a signal that they have bad intentions, especially if it's added to the no ID requirement. Elon Musk said that on X today that there is no other reason to have mail-in voting and no ID required unless the point is to cheat. So it does look like they're doing it right in front of us, right in front of you.

What about having an election that would be impossible to audit even if you wanted to? Well if that were the case I'd certainly be worried. Oh that is the case. If one side had a dominant control of the media, well that would certainly suggest some cheating could happen because no matter what they do the media will say it didn't happen. So as long as the media is willing to say it didn't happen and the courts are willing to say you don't have standing, well that would worry me because that would almost guarantee cheating. Just that setup. But we haven't seen any cheating.

How about if there was really vigorous and almost insane prosecution of the January 6 protesters? If they were overly prosecuted and the energy that went into that was way beyond what you imagine would be the benefit to the country, well that would worry me because it seems to be sending a signal that if you complain about the election being rigged hypothetically that your odds of going to jail are through the roof. So that would worry me. We haven't seen that, have we? Have we seen aggressive seemingly crazy prosecutions of January 6 protesters like grandmothers who did nothing but pray inside the Capitol? I mean if we saw that I'd be worried.

How about if the entire media and the Democrats had demonized Trump as Hitler? Do you think that would increase your odds of a rigged election? Yeah it would be through the roof. If they're trying to stop Hitler there's nothing you wouldn't do. Let me tell you for sure if I thought I could stop Hitler I would definitely rig an election because I want to stop Hitler. I don't care what Dr. Carlson's guest said. I'm not even going to talk about that. Tucker Carlson had an interesting historian who said some things about the Holocaust and World War II that are so hot that I'm just going to say I'm out. I'm out. Now I don't buy into what the historian and Tucker was saying so I don't accept his narrative but it sure shook things up.

And here's the other thing I would worry about is if for reasons that you can't understand the polling before the election seems really, really weirdly close. That would worry me. If I saw something that shouldn't be close but somehow it is, that would look like they're setting you up for a rigging but making you think it was just a tiny little change and you can't be sure that was because of any rigging.

So in summary I wouldn't be worried about the election integrity unless you saw any one of these things happening: using voting machines instead of paper ballots, no ID required along with mail-in voting, RFK Jr. put on the ballot against his will, election designed that's impossible to audit, full control of the media, January 6 prosecutions being aggressive to chill dissent, demonizing Trump as Hitler, and then suspiciously close polling results. If you saw any of that happening, well I'd be worried about the election integrity. But as long as we don't see any of that I think we'll be fine.

Meanwhile as Stephen Miller reminds us that if Kamala Harris wins she showed a willingness and an enthusiasm for packing the court. We know that Schumer already said they want to do a filibuster or get rid of the filibuster. So if the Democrats had control they would basically become authoritarian at that point because you would get rid of one branch of government if you could pack the court that aggressively. You could argue it's already packed but if you could do it that aggressively by changing the number of people on the court so you can just fill it with your own people and have a majority, as Stephen Miller points out that would be the end of the terms of our constitutional amendments. It would be the end of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th. Now that's a lot of freedom to lose right there.

Does that seem reasonable that Kamala Harris would pack the court? She said so directly. It's on video. We're not guessing that she might do it. She said so directly. Now she said she would be open to it. I don't think she said I will do that. But if you say you're open to it I mean I can't imagine you wouldn't do it anyway. So that's looking bad.

So we have a situation where we've got all these signals of a planned rigged election. A planned rigged election. The signals are there now. I'm not claiming that the election is rigged. That would take a whole different level of knowledge that I don't have. I'm just saying that the signals are screaming that it's planned to be rigged. Screaming right now. Why would you design a system the whole point of it to be credible and