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a crowded area and make as much noise as you could. So it doesn't have Iranian terrorists written all over it.

I see that some of you looking at the comments, some of you know more about the story than I did because I just skimmed it before I came on. All right, so sorry about the victims, but it looks like the threat has been neutralized or neutralized itself.

According to a Rasmussen poll that will be released this morning, 48% of the people polled, I think those are usually voters in the United States, 48% support a special prosecutor to look into the 2020 election. Now hold that in your head for a minute. 48% of the people polled, I guess that would be adults in the United States, 48% who think it's worth having a special prosecutor look into the 2020 election. Now that would probably be pretty much every Republican and maybe a few independents thrown in there too. So correct me if I'm wrong, but it wasn't that long ago that if you even suggested that the 2020 election might not have been pristine, you were just cancelled. You got sued. It was a terrible, terrible thing to say. And now even Rosie O'Donnell is saying, you know, I think the 2024 election should be looked into.

So we've managed to go all the way from there is no way that an election in the United States could be rigged because we have so many ways to check it. It's going all the way to we're pretty sure that we should look into this. That's a really big change in public opinion. A really big change. And I wonder what would happen to the January 6 hoax if they actually found something big about the 2020 election? What would happen to it? Because remember people like Bill Maher who were still in serious TDS, they believe that the reason that Republicans mostly stormed the Capitol on January 6th, they believe the reason is that those citizens thought that they had genuinely lost the election but wanted to take over the country with their preferred leader Trump.

Anyway, now those of you who are not in TDS know full well that that never happened. What I mean is there were not people who believed that the election was fair who were protesting. There were only people who genuinely believed and they could have been wrong. They might have been wrong, but they genuinely believed that the election was obviously rigged and they were trying to delay things until we could at least find out if that was true. So going from January 6 was an insurrection which assumes there's no way to question the accuracy of an election. That's just off the table. All the way to 48% want a special prosecutor to look into it. And by the way 2024 might have been a little sketchy too. That is a big, big change in public opinion.

Anyway, as you know, the supreme leader of Iran was immediately upon the beginning of military action by Israel taken by his military and put in their most secure bunker. Do you know what their most secure bunker is called? Fordow. Okay, that's just a joke. He was not put in Fordow. But it's kind of funny to imagine that his own military would put him in the best bunker they have. Oh, we got a bunker that nobody could ever bust. Why don't you put me in the bunker that's near my house? Oh, no, no, no. That bunker is not nearly good enough. You got to be in the good one. The one that's so secure that even two bunker busters would not destroy it. Would 12 bunker busters destroy it? Stop asking questions and get in this car. We're taking you to Fordow. Okay, that didn't happen, but it would have been funny.

However, according to Fox News and people watching the satellite imagery of the Fordow site, Iran is getting busy there. So it looks like they're trying to clear the roads and the entrances. And we don't know what else they're doing, but let me ask you this question. Would they spend a lot of time trying to dig stuff out of the ground if they didn't think there was some chance that important stuff survived? Would they? Were there human beings in Fordow? There might have been. So maybe they want to get the bodies out to give them a proper burial. Maybe. Or is it possible that they think there's a secret well-protected pocket somewhere in there that there might be some good stuff if they could find it? We don't know, but they're not ignoring the site. They're digging around. So they're up to something. We'll keep an eye on them.

Meanwhile, in another part of Iran in Tehran, CNN is reporting that there was a ceremony where women would show up with their babies. So there'd be a giant crowd of women who each had a baby and they would hold their baby up in the air and pledge their baby's life to martyrdom. So basically it was mothers saying, "Yes, kill my baby," presumably mostly sons, I guess, maybe. So martyrdom is a pretty big concept in Iran still. So if you're wondering, hey, I wonder if they're done fighting. Well, I'm guessing not. I'm guessing not because they don't have a concept of losing a fight. The people who stop fighting, it's because they understand the concept that they lost the fight. In Iran, apparently, they don't have that concept. You either win or you die a martyr and that's the other way to win. Or your child dies as a martyr. That's another way to win. So Iran needs to learn that there's a way to lose a war too, because otherwise there's just going to be more of it. So that's suboptimal.

Well, in related news, Iran's top Shiite cleric, who is another million-year-old guy, he looks like he's already dead, has issued a fatwa against Trump and Netanyahu. Now the fatwa is basically giving people permission for violence against them. But why would it be that the top cleric issued a fatwa whereas is that something that the supreme leader normally does or could do or would endorse or wouldn't endorse? So it brings me back to my central question. Is the Supreme Leader still in charge of that country? Because I don't believe it. I believe he's been nudged aside and that the military is already in charge. That's my belief at the moment. I could be wrong. I wouldn't say 100%. But if I had to put a percentage on it, 60 to 70% chance that the supreme leader is already moved aside or nudged aside. He might still think he's in charge, but maybe the reality is a little different.

All right. According to Newsmax World, Israel has postponed the trial that Netanyahu was in. So he was accused of various corruption things. And you remember that Trump was making some social media noise saying that they should stop lawfairing Netanyahu because he likes working with Netanyahu apparently. Now remember I said when I was talking about it yesterday I guess I said is it even a possibility that the Israel judicial system will look at a Truth Social post by Trump and then cancel the trial. And I was kind of mocking that as even a strategy. Like why would Trump even think that could possibly work? Like why would he waste any time on something that couldn't possibly happen and then it got postponed. Now we don't know why it got postponed. It has something to do with Israel's vital interests, probably something military, something about security, but the court actually postponed it. Now, postpone doesn't mean Netanyahu's out of trouble, but are these related? Is it possible that Trump's message actually made a difference or was Netanyahu and his legal team working on this the whole time and they just had a breakthrough that the court was willing to accept? I don't know, but it does seem like a bit of a coincidence that when Trump speaks up about it, Israel suddenly is acting different than you imagine they would act. So we'll keep an eye on that.

Well, the big beautiful bill, as Trump likes to call it, lots of infighting going on. The two people who were not in favor of it are Rand Paul and Tom Tillis in the Senate, but Tillis has already announced that he's not going to run for reelection. I guess Trump criticized him in recent posts and said he was going to encourage a potential primary challen

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ger. And if you've been paying attention to Tom Tillis lately, you probably said to yourself, he's acting like somebody who doesn't want to run for reelection. Well, turns out he didn't. And I believe that it was Laura Trump who is being considered as his potential replacement in North Carolina. He's North Carolina, right? Do I have that right? Well, so he's going away. And Rand Paul, he says he'…

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