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he ground. Israel will make a ground assault on Lebanon to try to get rid of Hezbollah once and for all. The IDF has confirmed that they killed the commander of Hamas in Lebanon. I don't know what the commander is so it's not the head guy. The head guy Sinwar is still around but they took out another leader. Now you really have to ask yourself does Israel know at all times where all the leaders…

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ok *Win Bigly* second edition. Look for the one with the blue cover. That's the only one I get money for. The other ones I think are pirated or used books or something but there's the original the black cover one. Don't buy that one. That one doesn't help me at all. It's not the updated one.

All right ladies and gentlemen I think I've said what I need to say for today. Monday is going to be lit. I'd watch the polls. As you know the polls are going to get a little more honest in the month of October because all the pollsters have to become honest the month before the election. You're going to see that in the next two weeks or so because they don't want to suddenly close the gap like a week before the election. You need a good solid month and that means by the middle of October the polls should be close to something like reality. And then we're going to find out some interesting stuff like who's ahead. We'll see if your anecdotal sense of things makes a difference.

Now I didn't mention this before but Bill Maher on Friday said that he can't tell what's true anymore because he reads one source that says crime is up and another source that says it's down and you can't tell. And he's getting very close to my opinion that all data is fake. But I would ask you this. On the question of whether the crime is up or down what's it feel like? If you ignore the news, just ignore the news like the news never happened. Your own life. My neighborhood has been burgled three times in the last 18 months. That's never happened before. There was somebody gunned down in front of a Home Depot in my town I think it was a year or so ago but tha

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t was unusual. Like we don't get that kind of gun violence usually. It's somebody who knows somebody pretty well but not a random shooter. So my experience is that crime is way up. And then when I see pictures of the sidewalks in the major cities I say well looks like crime's way up. And I see the fentanyl deaths are higher than ever and I say looks to me like crime's up. So if you can't tell wh…

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