r neighbor. We like the neighbor. So I would just say this. I just wish they, I kind of hope they do it. I hope they take their strongest play to try to keep them out of office. They will fail. But this is the ultimate you know F around and find out situation. I'd really love them to find out. Not with violence. No violence please. But no violence would be necessary because we would just look at the situation and say nope, nope.

Now speaking of violence which I do not recommend but you can state facts about violence, right? So that's fair. You can say somebody did some violence. There's a risk of some violence but I don't recommend it. Don't do any violence. However can you imagine the security situation for anybody who voted to keep Trump out of office at this point? If in Congress they voted to use this insurrection thing to keep him out, can you imagine what that would do to their security situation? Again please don't do any violence but we live in a country where people wouldn't take this sitting down. And anybody who voted to keep Trump out of office for this insurrection I would recommend you look at your budget because if you don't have a budget for increasing security I wouldn't vote this way. Now I wouldn't say that about many things. I can't even think of one other thing I would ever have said that about. But the people who vote for this are really going to put themselves in a physical jeopardy. Don't do anything to them. Don't, don't, don't. We want peace. We don't want to be that kind of country. But the reality is we live in a dangerous country full of guns and people have the guns for that reason. They have the guns for this reason. Don't use them for this reason. This isn't good enough reason but that's why they have them. So if they think that it would be safe to vote that they're not going to put the winner of the popular vote into office just think about your budget. Just think about it.

Well Russia is open to conversation about Ukraine but they say Trump has to go first. He has to make the first move to improve ties according to Breitbart, Simon Kent. And what would the first move be? So let's talk about that. If Russia says yeah we're open but you got to make the first move. All right here's the wrong answer. The first move should not be a peace proposal. By the way Lavrov, so he's the Russian, what would you call him? He's the main guy who talks to the United States about foreign policy and stuff like that. So Lavrov says that a truce is a path to nowhere. So a ceasefire doesn't have any interest for Russia. Russia is saying we're looking for a big deal, you know something enduring, something comprehensive. We're not looking for let's stop shooting on Tuesday. Is he right about that? Yes. Yes. Yeah Lavrov is completely right. Having a ceasefire would save lives but beyond that it wouldn't hasten the end of the war I don't think so.

What would Trump do? He can't say listen to a ceasefire. I agree Russia is correct on that. But here's what he's being set up for. Negotiating with himself. Have you ever heard that term? In the negotiating world there's a thing that's considered a classic error and the error is to negotiate against yourself. And the way that looks is you say first all right here's the deal I'll do this if you do that. And then the other side says no. And then you go back and here's the error and you come back with a new offer and they haven't made an offer. If you do that it's called negotiating against yourself and you've been tricked into making the first offer and then responding to them making a new offer and you've already talked yourself down. They haven't even made an offer and you talked yourself down. So that's considered a classic mistake. I learned that when I was negotiating with Disney years ago. There was an idea of making a Dilbert Disney animated movie and we made an offer to Disney and Disney said no that's not good enough come back with another offer. And the head of my syndication company said how about we're done now and we'll never work with you again. That's how it ended and I completely supported it. Yeah you don't negotiate with yourself period. And by the way he told them we're not going to negotiate with ourselves. If you've got an offer we'll look at it. So they knew why but they didn't want to make an offer. So we said well maybe we'll make an offer with somebody who knows how negotiation works. Now maybe it works for Disney. Maybe sometimes they get somebody dumb enough to do that. But thank goodness the professional I was working with knows how this works and he just closed them down. So nope don't negotiate with ourselves. We'll take this somewhere else. And that's why there's no Dilbert movie. No we did take it somewhere else but you know things didn't work out in other places either anyway.

So he shouldn't make an offer but he has to do something. So what would it look like if Trump did something first but it wasn't an offer for a peace deal? What would that look like? I don't know but Trump is the best at this. Suppose Trump said how about let's have a summit. Would that be an offer? Kind of. Kind of an offer to do a summit with himself and Putin. I would feel like that would be going first but without making the offer. So I think there's room to play. I think there's room to play. And when Russia says you have to go first what they're doing is trying to dominate Trump because they're trying to say all right we made you do the first thing. Like why does Trump have to go first? Why does he have to go first? They both want peace. So if Lavrov can sort of manipulate Trump into going first then he has sort of won the first round. Trump will know that because unlike ordinary politicians Trump knows how this works. He's done this before. So he's not going to fall for the you have to go first unless it looks like something that would be ordinary to do. Now a summit at least with Trump would be an ordinary thing to do. So I think that would not look like going first but would still be close enough to get things done. So we'll see.

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