that's just a hoax. Sort of like the Charlottesville event. There's nothing you could tell me that would make me think that happened organically. Nothing. That was so obviously an anti-Trump op that worked really well, by the way. It was genius. They still use it. They still act like it hasn't been debunked.

Dolly says it's obvious that Tim Walz is a serious alcoholic. Well I don't know about that, but I've listened to him on Club Random, his podcasty thing, and I believe he does say he likes to drink a lot. So that may be true. I don't know that he would disagree with you, actually.

Harry Enten, who's becoming my favorite CNN character, their data and polling expert, he says that Trump's approval has increased at least with Republicans since the Epstein drama. The poor Democrats, they're waiting for something, anything to finally make Trump less popular, at least with his own team. And they're like, ah, this Epstein thing, this is really going to smash him down and people aren't going to vote for him and they're not going to show up in the midterms and stuff like that.

Well it turns out that since the Epstein thing came out, Trump's approval on the CNN poll went from 86% and that's just Republicans to 88. So it improved. And a Quinnipiac poll went from 87 to 90. So it went up.

Now I assume that the slight and temporary reduction in his approval was probably from the tariffs. But now that the tariffs appear to be at least maybe successful, if the only factor is Epstein, I don't see people, and of course people are still waiting to see if there's more coming out. So it's not like we think nothing more is coming out. So maybe people are just wait and see.

All right. My state, California, is starting to have a disturbing pattern. Now I didn't see this on a news site but I saw it on a social media site. It said that the Sacramento California school board, the entire board just resigned after they audited and found that $180 million of taxpayer fraud. This is the Sacramento, California school board. $180 million of taxpayer fraud.

Apparently they had fake classrooms they were given money for and fake entities and fake projects. $180 million.

Now have I ever mentioned, of course I have, that wherever there's complexity and a lot of people working and a lot of money and time has gone by and it's always corrupt every time. So you could have asked me when the Sacramento California School Board was first formed, whenever they got access to deciding where money went, you could have called me up say, "Scott, do you think that there'll be massive fraud that comes out of this?" And I'll ask a few questions. I go, "Okay, is it going to be a complex organization with lots of moving parts?" Yes. "Will they be assigning money to lots of different places and nobody's going to be checking?" Yes. "And will they be able to give that money to their cronies and people who donate to their whatever they do?" Yes.

The answer would be yes. There was a 100% chance that was going to go corrupt. So California, do you see the pattern? If you give a lot of money to any complicated entity in California, they will form subcommittees and subcommittees and give it to NGOs and fake entities and their cousins and it'll all just disappear and then later somebody will audit it and say, "Ah, I don't know, we can't find it."

So here is one of my favorite categories for the podcast, is when Democrats are insulting other Democrats, which we're seeing a lot lately. So Harry Enten, going back to him on CNN, was not buying Kamala Harris's explanation that she didn't want to be part of a broken system and she was going to apply her leadership outside of government. Her leadership. What exactly has she ever led? She led the Democratic party to complete destruction. I would hate to be led that way.

Anyway, Harry Enten says he doesn't believe any of that basically. So he's mocking her for obviously lying, really, that the real reason is her poll numbers are terrible. There was a good chance she wouldn't win anything and so it's all...

And then I see a headline on X. The Post Millennial is writing about this, that Tish James, she's the attorney general in New York State, she's suing Trump to allow child sex changes in New York because I guess they got banned by executive order.

Now are you having the same impression I am when you see this headline? Tish James sues Trump to allow child sex changes in New York. Doesn't it feel like that couldn't possibly be 2025? Doesn't that feel like something from the old and stupid past? It just doesn't even seem like it's real. Like really, are we still talking about that?

And she's decided that of all the things she could spend her time on, she wants to spend her time on being a prominent Democrat anti-Trumper who wants child sex changes by surgery. Unbelievable. Someone needs to talk to her and say we Democrats would like to win another election someday beyond New York City.

Even Senator John Fetterman says that Trump's trade war is going well and he referred to Bill Maher as his oracle for his party. They really need a better oracle. And he says even Bill Maher says the tariff war stuff looks like it's going to work out. So Fetterman has got something good to say about Trump.

And CNN's Michael Smerconish was training his viewers that they lose credibility when they say everything that Trump does is a disaster because he pointed out, come on, is it not a good thing that the poorest border crossings have slowed to a trickle? Is it not a good thing that our NATO allies have agreed to move from 2% to 5% of GDP?

And so here's the thing. CNN is complaining because voters, Democrats, don't have anything good to say about Trump. Now how could it be that all those Democrats have nothing good to say about Trump? What would cause a situation like that? Oh I know. They watch CNN.

So Smerconish, who I like by the way, he's a very common sense-based guy. So he's an honest broker. But what was left out of that story and there's an obvious reason why is that the cause of Democrats thinking that 100% of what Trump does is a disaster is that they watch CNN. They don't sit in a room by themselves and come up with that. But to be fair this was on CNN. So Smerconish by amplifying the idea that Trump has done a few things right is changing that. So good for him.

But as I often say, our political opinions are not independently arrived at. They are assigned to us by our favorite media.

All right. Jasmine Crockett. Oh this is funny. You all know who Jasmine Crockett is, right? She's a loudmouth idiot Democrat who's just got tons of attention. And she just found out that if Texas gets away with a redistricting, which I think is in question, right? There's some question about whether the redistricting will get approved, but if it does, they're going to draw her out of her own district. So they're basically going to redraw the map so that she wouldn't have a chance of getting reelected or that she just doesn't even exist. They wouldn't need her next time.

So this would be an example of the squeaky wheel getting greased because she was the squeakiest wheel. So Texas decided to grease her and they're going to grease her good. They're greasing her hard. So I don't know if this is really happening, but to me it would be hilarious if she spent all of her time trying to get the highest profile she possibly could and then Texas... I have this image in my head.

Hold on. I have this image. Really? I don't have a single pen. All right. I have to use something I'll pretend is a pen. I have this image of somebody in Texas saying, "So Jasmine, what's your address?" Apparently they did call her to confirm her address, which is even funnier. I guess they called everybody to confirm their address, the representatives. But they called her to confirm her address.

And now I just have this image in my head of somebody in Texas saying, "Huh, all right. There's your house. All right. Well, and you're gone."

So she spends all this energy to become this high-profile person in the Democratic party and she did a great job of getting attention. And then there's somebody in Texas who just draws a circle around her house with a pencil and makes her go away.

Now remember I was saying earlier that if the rigged system goes your way, you don't feel like it's rigged. You just think it's funny. Well I'm literally laughing at it, but it's because it got rigged in my favor. I wanted that to happen. Now I don't know that it will happen. It was not a done deal by any stretch, but I should pause and say I'm not really in favor of a bunch of redistricting, gerrymandering. You know both sides do it, but is that ideal? Not really. But this time it might work in my favor maybe.

Well, as you know, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, worked with his government to get rid of term limits so that he could be serving six-year terms. I think that's up from four. And he could be reelected indefinitely if that's what the people want.

Now people complained an