o let's check in on that. It's been about 30 days, and Rasmussen just did a poll and found out his approval is 52 percent, the same as I think he's at a high point. So Trump's success according to Rasmussen is at a high point.

Now, if any of you are polling nerds, if you've ever heard how the left talks about the Rasmussen poll, do you know what they say about him? So the Rasmussen poll is often let's say a different result than the bulk of the other polls that lean left. So the ones that lean left say, oh, the Rasmussen poll, come on, you can't take them seriously because they're right-leaning. You know, as if the others are not left-leaning. So you can't take them seriously because they have this pro-Republican bias. And by the way, we have questions about their methodology.

Now, since you and I are not pollsters, we don't really know what that means. Like, what's wrong with their methodology? Why is your methodology right and theirs wrong? But here's what they leave out. Rasmussen consistently does better whenever you could check. So one of the ways that you could check, well, let me give you an example of something you can't check. If you are six months away from an election and Rasmussen says the Republicans are doing well, but all the left polls say, well, not that well, the Republicans are actually a little underwater, you can't really check because the only thing you'd have to check are other polls. So you don't have a result. You just have something that pollsters disagree.

The only time you can really know if the pollsters are good or bad is on Election Day. So if you were to check the Election Day presidential results of Rasmussen versus all the other pollsters, where do you think Rasmussen would be? Right near the top. So whenever you can check, okay, now we know for sure because we have the actual vote. Rasmussen, I think they got the last three, one of the best for the last three. So whenever you see that complaint, just remind yourself, whenever you can't check, they'll say, oh, you can't trust them. They've got bias. They've got this methodology that we criticize. Whenever you can know who was right, there they are. And they're reminding people of that fact this week. So it's kind of fun to watch.

Anyway, but how are the Democrats doing? Apparently there's a new survey that the Democrat favorability is at a new record low of 29 percent. So you know how the midterm elections pretty much always historically have gone against whoever the incumbent president is. So if the president's Republican, you can largely depend historically speaking that the midterm elections would put more Democrats in charge and they would have some control of at least one part of Congress. This might be the first time that doesn't happen because that is such a bad branding for the Democrats. It would be hard to imagine that they could somehow keep the historical norm and gain power compared to the president when I feel like DOGE is going to keep getting more popular the more corruption they find. So we'll see.

Meanwhile, over in Israel, their defense minister says that they're only a year away from deploying what they call the Iron Beam. It's this giant laser air defense system. It's supposed to be operational by the end of this year actually, so less than a year. And here's what that means in terms of cost. So the existing Iron Dome systems fire basically a missile to stop another missile or to stop a drone. But every time you fire a missile, it's really expensive. So it might be like 40 to 50,000 dollars every time the Iron Dome sends up an intercept. 50,000 for every intercept, and there would be a lot of them. So it gets really expensive really quickly.

But let's compare that to what it would cost per shot for this new laser system, closer to three dollars. Three dollars compared to 40 to 50,000. Three dollars per shot. So they could spend three dollars to knock down the enemy's far more expensive missile. Now, apparently it's not perfect. If the weather is a certain way, it's not going to work as well. So we'll see about that. You know, maybe they need both because if the weather is bad, they need a different system. Maybe the lasers are strong enough or will improve enough that they can just zip right through the fog and burn the fog out of the way before it hits the target. Maybe.

But if this thing works, I'd like to order a hundred of them. I don't know what the base units cost, so it's probably pretty expensive to get the base unit. But once you've got that, three dollars per shot, that's amazing.

You should read my book God's Debris: The Complete Works because the middle book of the trilogy, if you can call it that, is about a future in which this sort of missile defense was already implemented. But in the book, there were some of them that were implemented on sea platforms because you want to stop the missile well before it reaches your shores. So you'd put the platform well off the coast so it could