people then maybe you understand the news. But if you don't know about the people the story doesn't make sense. Let me give you an example. If I just told you that Pennsylvania blocked an audit of the overseas votes from the prior election you'd say to yourself oh well I'm sure they had their reasons. Probably had their reasons. Okay now I'm going to tell you who blocked it. It was then attorney general Josh Shapiro. He's the one who blocked it. Lands differently now doesn't it?

So the guy who blocked the audit was on the short list to be VP. You know we always think we live in a blackmailocracy like everything is based on who knows what about who. You know Shapiro you could go places but not if this audit happens. You know what I mean? If the audit happens you might not be on the short list. If the audit does happen you're going to be on the short list for something really good. So yeah.

The Butler rally as you know is happening tonight I guess it's 5:00 p.m. eastern time and we believe that Elon Musk is going to join. Now I don't know what they've planned in terms of where Elon will be fitting into the proceedings but here's what I hope happens. Fingers crossed. I want to see a SpaceX rocket landing in the field next to the rally like landing you know upright and then I want to see Elon Musk get out of the capsule and then go to the rally. Now I know that's not possible but wouldn't it be cool to show up in your own space rocket? It'd be very cool. That's all I'm saying. It's not going to happen. Maybe you could bring a robot though. Just bring one robot. Come on Elon you can do it. Bring us one robot anyway.

So I'd like to remind you about one of my best predictions of all time. Now I do this not only because I like to brag which I do but because since my show is largely about figuring out how people think and work and then making predictions it's important that I revisit my predictions even if they're wrong. This one happened to be right. I predicted that after Trump lost in 2020 that every day from that point on he would become more popular. So once he reached his depth of unpopularity around January 6 I said every day after that he would become more popular. Here he is. Here he is more popular. So that really was one of my best predictions.

I predicted that if he lost the Republicans would be hunted. I hate that that was right. Now Democrats still think that's not true because they don't get real news but clearly Republicans have been hunted. I mean there's no doubt about that at this point anyway.

Also the head of Hamas's military wing has been killed in a targeted attack by Israel. So they took out the head of the Hamas military wing but also his family at the same time. It looks like he got him at home. Now I'm no terrorist mastermind but I'm going to give a little bit of advice for those who are. If you plan to be an international terrorist or even a local one like Hamas don't work from home. Yeah don't telecommute if you're a terrorist. Far better for you to go to work and maybe sleep in the office until the trouble blows over. You don't really want to go to work and manage your terrorist international terrorist gang and then go home to the family and sit around the dinner table and have dinner. You're going to blow up with your family.

Now how many times have we seen these masterminds of international terrorist groups driving around with their families? I mean it makes sense that people go home to their family but this is the one time you really shouldn't. You really shouldn't go home to your family if you're being hunted by Israel. It just seems like not loving your family enough if you know what I mean.

So I don't want to make jokes about people's death but I will note that when we get all bent out of shape because somebody's celebrating some tragedy that happens in the United States we're not better than that. We're not. We celebrate tragedies that happen in other places if it's somebody we don't like. And unfortunately that's just who humans are. So I'm not happy about it.

All right ladies and gentlemen that completes my prepared remarks.

I think you know that the Dilbert calendar for 2025 is back after taking a year off and now better than ever because you have comics on the back, the Dilbert Reborn, and then the classic ones on the front like they always were. Twice as many comics. And you can only get it at the link at Dilbert.com. You cannot get it in bookstores this time. You used to be able to. You cannot get it on Amazon this time. The only place you can get it is the one link that you'll find on Dilbert.com.

And then of course I've reissued Win Bigly in time for the election because if you want to figure out how could Trump go from January 6 worst of everything to back at the top of the race this will tell you. So this is about persuasion in the context of the 2016 election which will tell you a lot about what tools he's using in the current run and it will allow you to be more powerful and effective in your own life.

All right so get that. That one's at Amazon so you can get that at the normal place. And only in I think it's only on Amazon and maybe in one other bookstore. Maybe at Barnes & Noble I think so anyway.

I'm going to say bye to X and Rumble and YouTube and I'm going to talk to the subscribers on Locals privately. Thanks for joining. You are amazing and fun as always. So Locals I'm coming at you in 30 seconds. It'll take a little bit of time for that change to happen.