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en. Women have complete control over the laws on abortion in your states. There is a lag and I regret that the time lag will allow some people to not be getting what they want but our system does allow you to get it in the long run. It's going to take some work and I'm not sure that you should have abortion laws that are liberal. That's not my preference. But the fact is we live in a constitutiona…

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tory. The most important thing is if this had been abused as a way to cheat in the past would we have caught it? Is there some part of the system where they go hey this person whose vote I have in my hand and this mail-in ballot, they are not an eligible voter. I've just checked. And even though they're on the roll as an eligible voter because remember they only just took them off, so if they saw that it was on the list of eligible voters how would they know they're not eligible? Are they going to check their death certificates during the election? I don't think so. I think they're going to say you're on the list you're eligible. So how you feeling about those elections? How about that election integrity?

Let me put it all together for you. We can measure the temperature of the earth including all the atmosphere and the bottom of the ocean for hundreds of years and we're all accurate. Not only that but we can determine the exact inflation rate very quickly on time and it will be correct within a tenth of a point. Yeah so not only that but our elections are pristine. Pristine. Never had a rigging problem. Never will. It's really unbelievable the things that we've been told. None of these things are even a little bit possible. It's not even a little bit possible. You can measure the temperature of the earth? Humans we can't do that. That we can calculate inflation. I'm sorry not inflation. Yeah inflation. If we can calculate inflation and we can do a vote and we would know if there were too many illegal votes and it changed, we can't do that. We have no ability in our current system to know who won an election. We don't know how to know the temperature and we don't know the inflation. If you believe any of those things can be measured in a reliable way you are completely brainwashed. There's no reason, sensibility, data. There's nothing to support any of those thoughts. We can't measure the temperature. We can't measure inflation. We don't know who wins any elections. We're going to have to live with that because that's our current situation.

All right Harris is going to go to the order to pretend that she did not ruin the country in the last three and a half years of absolutely disgusting despicable deplorable, dare I say behavior, in terms of protecting the Americans from the onslaught of uncontrolled, I'm going to call it uncontrolled even though they say it's controlled, immigration. So we'll have plenty to mock but it might be enough for the dumb Democrats to think she's doing something about the border and it will be a pure propaganda move.

But even more interesting there are three things happening today I guess. Netanyahu is giving some address I think to the UN or is he in America anyway. Netanyahu is going to be saying something that's going to be news. And Trump is apparently meeting Zelensky today. He may already be doing it. Trump is meeting Zelensky. You know what's interesting about that? Oh I'm being asked Scott do you think the coordinated multiple oops applies to the Trump assassinations? No I don't. No because that would require that all the people who made a mistake were in on it. It would be easy to imagine that all the people who make the oops in the election are in on it because they don't feel like they're going to jail for it right? They feel like if they get caught they just go oops well we'll correct that right away right? If they can make it look like a mistake. I don't imagine there would be like six people on the Secret Service and the local police who are all in on the plot. That would be a little too much for my imagination to get there. It's a good question though. I like that question. That was a good test of the thinking.

But anyway Trump's going to meet Zelensky today and here's what's interesting. I don't think this is going to happen but Trump could end the war today. He could absolutely end it today. Do you know how he could do it? He just tells Zelensky here's the deal. If you wrap things up before I get in office you're going to get the best deal that you can get. If you wait for me to get in office both you and Putin are going to be way worse off. You better do it before I get elected and damn it I'm going to get elected. So could you scare Zelensky instead of saying oh if Trump comes in the war is still going to end but I'll probably be removed? Yeah right. The war is going to end either way. Let's put it this way. Imagine Trump saying behind closed doors perfectly privately look here's the deal. We both know this is going to wind down when I'm president. If you'd like to still be in power you're going to do it now and you're going to say that you talked to me. You thought that I was going to win and you thought that it would make sense for you to get the best deal you can now. Don't mention the part about you're not going to be in charge anymore if I'm in charge. Just say because you assume that American president can remove the Ukrainian president. We all assume that right? We assume there's sort of a what would you call it a puppet state at this point. So one way or another with funding or something yeah we could just say we will give no reconstruction money to Ukraine unless you get rid of Zelensky. Done right?

So I would threaten him and say if you want to be in power when I come to power you're going to wrap it up before I get there and you're going to give me credit for it. Then he goes to Putin and he says here's the deal. If you wrap things up in a way that people think is reasonable and you do it now then we're good when I come into office. If I come into office and you're still doing this I'm going to go so hard at you you won't know. I hear you. And then he ends the war because you know what is interesting about those threats? They are all completely doable. They're all completely reasonable. And history would judge Trump well if they knew every bit of it. The Ukrainians would be better off. The Russian people would be better off. Europe would be better off. America would be better off. They all want it to end. Everybody wants it to end. He could end the war today.

Now again I'm going to persuade against that. I don't think he's going to do that. You know that would be and it might seem it might be illegal. It might be illegal for him to negotiate with a foreign power when he's not in office. So I would ask about the legalities of that but it's not impossible. If nobody's listening and he knows it's private, although that would be, I doubt he could ever get a private conversation but if he knew he was private he could end the war. Who disagrees? Do you disagree with that statement? He could put the threat of so much pain on both the leaders that would be completely credible. All you have to say is Zelensky you're out of a job and basically people are going to kill you as soon as you're out of the job. That would be a real threat. And you tell Putin here's the deal. You make me happy about ending this war and everything's going to go better for you than if you don't. And Putin's going to know that's true. That would be a very solid threat that I think the entire world would take seriously. So you would be giving both sides an easy out given that they know they have to get out right? This is not the forever war and it's not the war where one side's going to win. So they both want out. They just need somebody else to force it. Here it is. Here's the somebody else to force it. See this is why Trump is not just good at his job. He's a one-off. And I can't say enough about that. There's only one Trump. Yo

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u can put Trump in some situations not all of them. He's not perfect for every situation but there are some situations that only a Trump can solve. And he built himself into that person. And you could take a hundred really good politicians and put them in that same position. They would do nothing. I'll take somebody I like. Let's take DeSantis. DeSantis I have a very high opinion of. Very solid c…

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