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h these numbers. It could be that they're only comparing people who are registered one way or the other which you know I would need more detail to know if that's what's happening. But let's say that the numbers are true. What would that suggest would be the likely vote? If there really are more Republicans registered than Democrats, who would win the not the electoral vote but the overall national…

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t them all. Which very heavily suggests there's an insider who's saying he's in a blue car, he's heading down the street now.

So the head of Hezbollah, clearly not a strategic genius, decided to get what was left of Hezbollah to meet him in person in his command bunker. Well what do you think happened then? I'm not supposed to laugh at war but did this really happen? Did Israel really figure out a way to kill all the leaders and then make sure that the new team of leaders all went in the same place at the same time and that they would know where they were and when they were there and then they would drop a bunch of bunker busters on it and just make it a hole in the ground?

Well there's nothing funny about this situation but Hezbollah had been telling a lot of lies and Israel decided to debunk them. That's right they debunked them. And when they were done the thing that used to be called a command bunker looked a lot like Justin Bieber's sphincter after a Diddy party. I'll just let you live with that one for a while. Take your time. Take your time. Whenever you're done we'll get back to it. Okay yeah looked like Justin Bieber's sphincter after a Diddy party.

Anyway we don't see them firing back a whole bunch of missiles. Iran apparently had a big old meeting and Iran thinks, some people are saying Iran is going to send some troops to Lebanon. I don't know if that's a good idea for them but it gets better. Apparently Israel hacked the airport control tower for Lebanon, Beirut I guess. And since we know that Iran apparently was shipping in supplies and weapons to Hezbollah they got to the control tower, took it over with hackers and told the planes they better turn around because they're in trouble if they land. And there's some evidence that one of the planes that was coming from Iran to Lebanon turned around immediately. Turned around immediately which means it was probably full of weapons. Don't know for sure but maybe.

Well if any of this is true Israel basically just rewrote all the war books about how you do anything. The level of brilliance that appears to be here... now remember this is still fog of war propaganda. We're getting a version of the news that says Israel is beyond brilliant. So just be careful that you're maybe not seeing all the warts. Maybe things weren't as clean and maybe there was some luck involved and so we don't know everything. But if we were just to judge it on the surface it would be the greatest military strategic success of my life. I mean the amount that I am impressed by what Israel's done militarily. And again I want to, if somebody is new to me, I don't back Israel because they don't back me. It's not my job to back Israel. Now they're an ally and I take that seriously but I'm an American so I'm sitting over here caring what's good for me. Israel is just something I'm observing. And sometimes I say to myself all right if that happened to America how would we act? Well we're full of DEI so we couldn't pull that off but I wish we could. I wish we were that smart anyway.

There's a new drone. South Korea made a drone that works on hydrogen. It's a hydrogen drone. Tech Times says so. It's got a 5,800 mile range and can stay in the air for hours compared to 30 minutes for a normal drone. So if you've got something that can lift some weight and can go 5,800 miles and stay in the air for hours, the degree of warfare you can do with small drones, because these would be smallish ones, is a whole new level.

So I don't know how close we are to an all-robot war where it's just drones in the sky because you don't want to waste a pilot and robot dogs on the ground. We're pretty close. We're pretty close. We might actually get to the point where if the robots on one side defeat the robots on the other that the humans will just surrender rather than send humans to fight their robots which would just be slaughter. We'll just say all right you robots beat our robots. We don't like it but you're in charge now. You own our country. We're getting there. I think you'll see it in your lifetime.

Judge Chutkan, according to Jeff Clark, she's gaming with the timing of things so that a few weeks before the election there would be some kind of reveal from Jack Smith. So Jack Smith the DA he's got some materials that we haven't seen but the redacted version might come out mid-October. Now whatever a prosecutor of Trump produces in mid-October is going to be bad for Trump. Now do you think it's a huge coincidence that the badness would come out at the very worst time? Do we expect that whatever badness he produces is real like actually in context and accurate? Nope. I do not believe that. I believe that they would, because remember Department of Justice are criminals and the criminals are now legal. So this would be the Department of Justice. Now they're criminals. So the criminal thing to do would be to make up a bunch of and know that there's no time to correct it before the election and just depend on the fake news to say it's all true and then after the election you do the fact check. It's like oh yeah I guess this wasn't as true as we thought. Sorry about that. Yeah yeah sorry. That's what it looks like.

Well one of my favorite things yesterday was that Trump and Zelensky met. Now that's unusual because Trump is not the sitting president so you have to be delicate about what you can and cannot do in that situation. But I loved the press conference after where Trump, his 6'3" is standing over Zelensky who's 5'6" or whatever he is, and Zelensky just looked like he'd just been punished by his parents. Like he looked like a defeated... he didn't look like Zelensky of old. "Give us weapons. We'll fight every day. We win." And Trump is just saying... what was Trump saying? He was saying basically it's over. We need to negotiate a deal. You know we'll just figure out who gets what land. We'll sort it out.

Now that's when Zelensky in the past would have said something like no we will fight. We must get every inch of land back. We will never quit. They can't steal our land. The best he could do because he knows there's a good chance he's going to be dealing with Trump in the future, the best he could do is remind us that Russia is on Ukrainian land and so when they negotiate you know that should be top of mind. But even he was talking about negotiating now. Correct me if I'm wrong. So now Zelensky seems on board with negotiating and obviously some kind of land agreement will have to happen. Putin of course is interested in negotiating. And they're the two sides. Who's not interested in negotiating? Democrats and the deep state and the military-industrial complex.

But if you put Trump in there there's nobody left who wants the war. Zelensky doesn't really want any more of it. You know he'd love to win but doesn't seem to be an option so forget about that. Yeah all it takes is a President Trump. Now when he'd been saying he could get it done in a day you know that's hyperbole. Nobody could do it in a day. But basically he could because all it takes is Trump to be president and then there's nobody in the game who wants to keep fighting because Ukraine and Russia definitely don't. They definitely don't. And as long as Trump doesn't there's nobody left. So yes he could wind it up soon as he gets in there.

I wonder if Trump actually worried that he could end the war before he got in office and before there's even an election so that it wouldn't count in his benefit on the election. But if you want to end this war you now have a 100% obvious way to do it that you control as a citizen. You can just vote for Trump and this war is over. It really is.

All right Bill Maher had a show last night. We always talk about him. He is a good indicator of what people are thinking and on that basis it's fascinating. And he actually said that we should defend Ukraine and that it's basically so little money for the United States that we're getting some benefit of degrading Russia. We're protecting our ally, kind of an ally. And this is what Maher says about the money. He says that basically none of us know that none of us can tell the difference the amount of money we spent in Ukraine. He's saying that you and I don't feel it. To which I say have you heard of inflation?

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I don't know how much of the deficit per year is in the over a trillion dollar range. Is it like 1.3 trillion somewhere in that range? And how much do we give to Ukraine every year? A few hundred billion? Do we spend a few hundred billion per year? So maybe 15% of our deficit something like that. And then of course we have to build up our own military because we're sending our bullets over there s…

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