somebody's trying to figure out who paid the trucking companies that allegedly had the fake ballots on it and it's taken two years in federal courts unsuccessfully? Is there some reason we can't know who paid the trucking companies that a whistleblower said had fake ballots in it? And you're going to trust the next election?

Now here's what I hope. If we know that this kind of process happened once or at least there's an allegation that happened once then can the Republican observers make sure that they're observing so they could catch it should it happen again? Now if it happened again I imagine it wouldn't look the same. If there was any bad behavior before they would know they needed to switch it up but it would still have the same element to it. There would still be trucks delivering things that were full of things that shouldn't be delivered. So can you catch that? It depends where the observers are and some of them are going to be kept out of certain places. So we'll see. We shall see.

Well Ukraine has souped up its drone success rate that used to be down around 10% because the Russians were good at jamming drones so they kept sending these drones and they got jammed and maybe one in 10 would hit a target. But now Ukraine has added AI to their drone so that they can fly without GPS which means they can get to their location they can do their own looking around and the jamming doesn't the jamming is applicable to the GPS so I think if you take that out of the mix you can make it somewhat autonomous and then the hit rate is up to 80%. So now 80% of the drones are killing people. That's pretty amazing.

And then there's some information suggesting that the Ukrainian leadership is open to trading some land for a peace situation. Now of course there are people who debunk that story and say no no no we're not even considering trading land for peace but that's the better negotiating position. You want to start from the position that my God no I'm giving you nothing in case you have to later give them something.

All right here's my update on Israel and Palestine and the Palestinians. I told you yesterday that I tried to get involved in a conversation online and I was just trying to clarify that the two parties were not on the same topic. I wasn't even taking a side just saying oh you're not on the same topic and I got just totally attacked for people assuming I'm one side or the other. And so here's what I've realized. I've told you before that lying is a bad thing and you'd all agree with that right? Lying is a bad thing. But there are some specific domains in which lying is not only acceptable it's preferred. It's preferred. One of those domains is when people ask you about your sex life. You have the right to lie about your sex life. Yeah if you're still in the closet and that's your preference I'm not saying it should be your preference I'm not involved in your personal life but if you want to tell somebody you're not bisexual but you are fine. That's a perfectly good use of a lie. I am 100% on your side. If somebody wants to get in your sex business and you just want to make them go away by lying yes absolutely lie all you want about your sex life.

There's another area in which lying is not just okay it's advised. It's advised and that would be self-defense. So let's say the terrorists capture you and they say do you have any guns in the house? You say no no no I hate guns I'm anti-gun and then maybe you got a chance to get close enough to your hidden handgun that you can shoot him. So there are situations in which it's dangerous to tell the truth. In those cases yes lie. Lying is not just okay it's advised. Very advised right? So in self-defense you can lie as much as you want.

Now this brings us back to Israel and the Palestinian situation. What do the Israelis believe they are doing? Defending themselves. What do the Palestinians believe they're doing? Defending themselves. Now October 7th was an offensive act but their take on what they were doing you know their interpretation not mine not mine I'm not involved their interpretation would be it's part of a larger defensive you know get your land back as they see it.

Now if you've got a situation where both entities and this is kind of weird you know normally there's an attacking entity and a defensive entity. Take the war in Ukraine. In that case Russia more clearly is the aggressor and Ukraine most of us think is on the defense right? So that would be the normal situation for a war. There's one attacking and one defending. But the weird thing about Israel and the Palestinian situation is that because of their complicated past they both claim to be in a defensive mode.

Now when you're in a defensive mode as I just explained lying is not just okay because you're defending yourself there's no rules in defense. It's advised. It's not just okay it's recommended if you're defending yourself or right if you're defending yourself it's recommended because you should use every tool. You should use lying you should use bombs you should use whatever whatever it takes. There's no rules in self-defense. So when I as a tourist you know blunder into this conversation between two entities that are in a defensive posture and then I try to insert something that I think is maybe a truth that both of them could agree on I am wasting my time because the only thing you know for sure is that neither side should be interested in the truth.

Now what will happen five minutes after I'm done I will go to my DMs and several people who are Jewish and friends of mine will say but you know you know I hear what you're saying Scott but you know Israelis they do have the better argument. And I'm going to say I don't care because if you're not in it you should not trust anything that either side says because they both have a free pass under their assumptions of what's true. They have a free pass. They have a free pass to lie about everything as long as they're in a defensive posture. So if Israel is lying about everything and I'm not saying they are that is not my claim I'm saying they have a right to lie about everything. So do the Palestinians under their interpretation of what's happening.

Now what I'm not going to do is give you my interpretation of what's happening because it all looks stupid to me because you can just pick some period and pick some interpretation you could come up with anything you want. So it doesn't matter what anybody else thinks. All that matters is who has the power to get what they want at the moment. Israel has power to get what they want and they're allies and we should treat them like allies and if they do things that we would do and they do it's hard to judge somebody for doing something exactly like what you would do. So I'm not going to judge either side. I'll leave that to people who believe that in a contest between two groups who consider themselves to be on defense that you can believe anything that's coming out of the war zone. If you believe anything that's coming out of a war zone between two people who are presenting themselves as on the defense don't do that. Don't do that.

So now do I have a preference of who wins? Yes I have a preference of who wins because in my world if you would call me a non-believer let's call me a non-believer. I don't call myself an atheist because that feels too certain. I'm simply not accepting popular belief systems. Who is more likely to be on my side in that situation? Jews. Yeah Jews are not tough on people who have different opinions at least you know the people in the United States and peo