er 24, which means it was really a graph of food prices skyrocketing under Biden. And then there's only a little bit on the far right of the graph where it was even Trump's administration. And it's maybe up a little bit, but closer to flat. And they had to remove it when they had realized that they had just advertised that all the grocery prices skyrocketed under Biden. That's their best people. So their best people couldn't notice that what they put out is a damning indictment of Biden and the Democrats. Not only did the food prices go up, but the Democrats were too stupid to know that that's what they were telling the public. Oh, so that was funny.

But then Beto O'Rourke, who is wonderfully incompetent, he was back. He was talking at some event. The Blaze noticed this and put it in an X post. And he said, and I quote, "We should meet fire with fire. Why the fuck are we responding to the other side instead of taking the offense on these things?" Now wait a minute. We should meet fire with fire. Wouldn't meeting fire with fire be an example of responding to the thing? Like you wouldn't set a fire unless there was already a fire. So Beto doesn't even know how analogies work because fighting fire with fire is exactly responding to the other side, the fire on the other side. So he goes, "We should meet fire with fire. Why are we responding to the other side?" Okay, fix your analogy. And then he says, "Republicans care about power more than anything else. Democrats care more about being right and we have to change that." Really, the entire news cycle is about all the hoaxes that the Democrats are doing. They are 100% liars all the time and never turn it off. And he believes that what they care about is being right. They don't even have a little bit of interest in being right. Not even a little bit. That is the most clueless and out-of-touch opinion you could ever say. No, they both care about power. The difference is that the way Republicans are getting power is how are Republicans gaining power, specifically Trump? How did they get control of the whole government? What was the clever weasel trick that Republicans used to get power? Capability. All they did is say, "Here's our idea for fixing things." Trump had very specific ideas. Close the border, drill baby drill, tariffs. I mean, he came with a whole quiver full of arrows. And then people looked at the arrows and said, "Yeah, there I'm 80% on that." 8020. 8020. And so the reason that the Republicans have power is not exactly their craving for power, although you know people are people. So everybody likes more power than less. But no, they got there by capability, by ability, by merit. Yeah, the word I was looking for is merit. Trump is a total merit president. There's no way he would be in term for a second office unless he had proven some merit in the first one, the first term. And he's proving it every day. He's got tons of merit.

Well, then Hunter Biden and the podcasters for Pod Save America, a big Democrat podcast. They're after each other because Hunter did that podcast and he said some things about his father and Ambien and whatnot. Now they're mad at each other. And Byron York is pointing out, here's the thing. They're both right. So here's what they each said about the other. And Byron says they're both right. The podcast guys are right when they say Hunter is a sleazy influence peddler out to profit on his family's name. But Hunter is right when he says the podcast guys are elite out-of-touch Democrats dining out on their association with Barack Obama who are alienating the party's traditional base and turning it into an image of themselves. So while Trump is using that merit thing like he's trying to clean up your sidewalks and he's got nuclear policies that are just humming along and CapEx is the biggest it's been forever and I mean just all these merit-based accomplishments. The news for Democrats is that they've insulted each other in clever ways. That's all they got is clever insults for each other, not even for the other side.

Well, did you catch this? Here's another complicated story, but I think I can simplify it. You might remember that one of Trump's favorite lawyers who had worked for him, Alina Habba, had been appointed interim, I think it's 120 days, US attorney for New Jersey. So New Jersey is one of the more important states to have your preferred US attorney. And so Trump made sure that one of his loyals was in the job. Well, the term expired because these are meant to be temporary because it'd be impossible to get probably impossible to get Democrats to say yes to it. So he makes it temporary. And then Hakeem Jeffries and all of his people, they leaned on the federal judges to make sure that she would stay out of power and that after the term was over, she would leave.

So here's what the Trump administration did. So she resigned as interim US attorney of New Jersey. All right. So that's step one. Watch how clever this is. This is hilariously clever. So they agreed. They said, "All right, she was temporary. Her term is over." So she resigned. And then the Trump administration appointed her to the job that's one level below that. So the person who is directly in line for the top job in New Jersey but one level below it. So they nominate her temporarily for the lower job but since the higher job is unoccupied and it will stay that way, she's the acting head. So all they did is keep the top job open and appoint her to the number two spot because the number two is of course in charge when there's no number one. Now that was funny. Well played.

All right. So Marco Rubio is saying that France is being reckless when they by recognizing the Palestinian state. He says it's a reckless decision. Now, I've noticed that there are a lot of what I call half opinions about the whole Palestinian situation and you know, everybody seems to retreat to the safest thing you can say. So the safest thing you can say is, I don't like it when Israel is abusing the poor Gazans. That's safe cuz who's in favor of war? Basically, you'd be on the same side as the Pope. Well, it's not good that people are getting shot and sometimes children are dying. So that's all bad, but what the hell else is going to happen? I mean, you better have a plan for how you could prevent that. And I don't think that the plan includes recognizing the Palestinian state. Now, by the way, I do not have an opinion on that. Just to be clear, I have to say this every time I talk about Israel. I don't have an opinion about what they should do because it's not my country and none of their arguments on either side make sense to me. Because both sides are going to say some version of well historically this is why we're doing what we're doing. I don't care about their history. I'm not interested at all and they're not my country.

So I can predict that Israel will never agree to a two-state solution. I feel like that's easy to predict unless there was some just major change in the government over there that I don't see happening. But yeah, everybody wants to have the safe opinion. It's safe to say we want everybody to stop shooting at everybody else. But is that really a real world practical anything? No, it's not.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is all I wanted to say today. It is Friday. It's time to pack up your work stuff and get ready to enjoy the weekend. All right. Israel is our only meaningful ally. Yeah. I mean, so what? I mean, I'd rather that they were than they weren't, but that doesn't tell you what to do about any specific situation.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to say a few words privately to my beloved subscribers on Locals and the rest of you. Thanks for joining. And we'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place. All right, Locals coming at you privately in.