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It looks like in other news Trump might soon announce a Fed chair who would replace Powell. Now he wouldn't replace Powell until Powell's term is over in May. So that would have the effect, as others have said, like a shadow Fed leader, somebody who could go in public and say, "Well, if I were already in the job, I think I'd be leaning toward lowering those interest rates." And it's going to put pressure on Powell. So I do expect that that'll happen.

According to the Rasmussen account on X, the 2020 nationwide election fraud syndicate will start to come into the sunlight in the next few weeks. Well, I don't know what they know that I don't know. So there must be some activity happening that is not announced yet. But if you didn't know, the Rasmussen account has been very closely following all claims of election irregularity from 2020 and are now teasing us that there's something that's coming on that. Could it be that the Trump administration will launch a major investigation into the 2020 election? And could it be that there's some real things that they will find there? I don't know. We'll find out.

You probably know the story that the state of Texas tried to get some gerrymandering approved that would allow them to have up to five extra representatives in Congress if approved. But the Democrats who would have to be part of the vote even though they would be outvoted have left town. So there's not a quorum for the vote. So you have to have a certain number of people present to make the vote valid. So they left and they went to Illinois, I think, and Governor Abbott is threatening that they'll be replaced with a special election and they might face bribery charges because I guess somebody offered to pay somebody for something in addition to losing their jobs. So the pressure is on. But JB Pritzker says he's going to be protecting these people. So good luck there.

I feel like the Texas Republicans have to win that in the end, right? Isn't this one of those stories where it's sort of like Cory Booker doing the filibuster? While it's happening, you might have to pay attention to it, but it can't last forever. All right, these people are gonna have to come back. They're gonna want their jobs. So I suspect Republicans will win in the end.

There was a caller who called into C-SPAN recently and said that Democrats need to show more of a spine and more interest in working people instead of saying they're just saying they're for working people. Now, that's more of that mistake, right? Where they think that showing a spine is what they need to do. No, they don't need to show a spine. They need to show a policy that people liked. They wouldn't need any spine at all if they had good policies, would they? So every time the Democrats believe that what they're lacking is fight and resolve and spine is another day that they're not getting any closer to winning.

And then just to show you how clueless Democrats are, I think the whole Democrat part of the world is about some part of the Democrats scamming the other parts of the Democrats. Does it seem like that to you? If you were to separate, well, if you look at just the Democrats, you know, the ones in power, there would be two kinds of people. There would be all these consultants and those who are trying to rip off the other Democrats. And then there would be the Democrats who are getting ripped off and that's about it. That it's just thieves and people who are victims.

Anyway, the newest Democrat scheme, which looks like nothing but a money-making scheme for some Democrats, is to spend tens of millions of dollars to fund hundreds of content creators so that their social media game will be better than it was. So the Democrats believe that they can artificially create what Republicans have done organically. That's wrong, right? Isn't that obviously not going to work? Because it's not like you could set out to create Victor Davis Hanson or Mike Benz or how do you set out to create Matt Walsh or obviously Joe Rogan. How do you do that? How do you set out to create Theo Von like artificially? These are not things anybody can do.

The thing which I think Democrats are failing to recognize is that for reasons that I don't even understand completely, it may be the common sense theme of Republicans maybe. But it seems to me that the smartest, most capable people all just sort of gravitated to one side. And you know, Elon Musk would be the obvious one. And then the All-In pod guys, David Sacks, even JD Vance, Peter Thiel. We're talking about people who aren't just smart, they're next level smart. I would say someone like James Carville, as much as I like making fun of his inability to get his message across, he would be very smart for a Democrat but he's not Victor Davis Hanson or Mike Benz or any of the ones I mentioned. He's not that smart. They don't really have somebody who's anything but academic smart.

And it seems like the Republicans for whatever reason, I don't even know what the reason is, seem to have attracted all the people who are not just regular smart, but I don't even understand how you could be a human being. Do you ever listen to Victor Davis Hanson and he's talking about any topic and putting context on it and the whole time you're sitting listening to it, you're thinking, "How does he even know all that? How do you know all that?" You listen to Mike Benz and he can talk for three hours and the whole time you're going, "How do you know that? How do you know that? Come on. How do you know that?" And he does know that. I mean, he really does know it. So who on their side is doing something like that?

The closest they got is what was it? Ezra Klein writing a book about all the things that they're doing wrong. I mean, that's a very capable piece of work, but he's not really in the same domain with what the Republicans put together organically. Well, they didn't even put it together. It just happened organically.

And if I may, who on the Democrat side has my understanding of persuasion right now? I don't believe there's anyone on the Democrat side who can do what I can do, which is tell you what works and what doesn't work and so you can do more of what works. So somehow the most capable people just ended up in one place and the Democrats just can't see it because that would allow them to if they saw it, they'd have to admit that there's a gigantic brain power difference driving one side versus the other.

I see you making suggestions, but I'm not going to agree with all those names. Yeah. Okay. There's another one. Megyn Kelly. Who is the Democrat Megyn Kelly? Right. Who's the Democrat Molly Hemingway? I just realized that I was being super sexist when I mentioned the people. They were all male. But you can throw in Molly Hemingway. You can throw in Megyn Kelly. Unusually capable people. They're not just normal. These are very unusually capable. Miranda Devine. Unusually capable. Very capable.

Apparently the Kremlin, oh one other thing. So apparently the Israeli government, Netanyahu has said that they're going to occupy the Gaza Strip. I think that's official. The news is reporting it. Occupy it means they have no plans of ever returning it back to the Gazans to form some government. They're just going to own it. It will just be part of Israel.

Now name all the people who predicted that before today. Just one. Just me, right? Can you name one person who at the very beginning of the Gaza war said this isn't going to be anything but complete victory? Because that's what they said. Total victory was literally their slogan. Total victory. And they said early on they said that we're going to change reality on the ground and we're never going to have this problem again. Now, to me, they said as clearly as they possibly could, "We're going to devastate this place and just completely own it in the future, and Hamas will never have any role here again." Now, you remember I predicted this right from the beginning, right? And now it's a fact.

And so I'll go back to my prior conversation and say, who is it on the Democrat side who can make good predictions? I don't even know. But if you looked on the Republican side, I don't get them all right. Of course, I'm not going to tell you I got everything right that I've ever predicted. But we have a whole bunch of smart people who can predict things quite reliably by just being a little bit more aware of what's going on, I guess. I don't know. My cat's head just disappeared. All right. She seems very happy.

So here's my comment on Israel because people imagine different things about my opinion. So I have to make sure that you understand. Here is the wrong way to argue about Israel. And I think this would apply to comic Dave Smith and