. You don't want to go home in a body bag. Okay? You could feel that now compared to Trump is effing up the city. I use a swear word. Did anybody catch that? I used a swear word. One of those is four-star A++ persuasion. It's the body bag one. Yeah. It's not the "Oh he's effing things up. Oh I'm going to effing fight so hard." Oh. Oh mockery. I got a happy cat right there.

All right. People can't see you if you lay down there. They're going to have to look at me.

Well Trump was asked about Newsom of course and Trump said, "I know Gavin very well. He's an incompetent guy with a good line of bullshit." So Trump does the cursing. And again I don't think it's true but I love, you know, just recreationally I like believing that Trump knows that the more he swears the more they'll think that's the magic sauce. And see if he can get into a swearing contest with them and they'll have nothing. Nothing at all.

Well so here's how I like this reframe from Trump or it's a frame I guess that Gavin is incompetent. He's a guy but he's got a good line of bullshit. Doesn't that feel kind of perfect? Because Newsom has that pretty boy, you know, a little bit too good-looking hair. He has his hair is too good. He's a little too tall. His tan is a little bit too good. And that sort of biases you to think that maybe he's not that competent because it's hard to be good-looking and competent at the same time. You know, not too many people pull that off. I mean I do obviously but not too many people can pull that off. So it's a really good frame. It's sticky. He's an incompetent guy with a good line of bullshit.

All right. Here's an update on John Bolton being raided by the FBI. Can I lay my notes on you, cat? I need them to be sort of right there but that's sort of where you are. I'm just going to lay them right on top of you. All right. It's working. So Gary the cat is so relaxed that he doesn't mind if I put my notes on top of him. No, stay down there. It's okay.

Anyway, update on Bolton. So there's some thought that the reason he was being raided is he had some potentially classified materials and that he mentioned them in his book. So there's no real question whether the materials are classified because we already saw the book. And I guess even the judge because it became a court case and I think the judge even admitted as a statement of fact that it was classified material and he shouldn't have had them. But he was still allowed to publish the book. So but there is some thought that it was more than that and that he might have been behind some other leaks. We don't have evidence of that but we do know that Ratcliffe, the head of the CIA, is the one who provided the information that was the predicate, as they like to say, for the FBI to go into his house. So what would the CIA know that the FBI didn't know already? So there might be something there. We don't know. We'll keep an eye on that.

So do you believe that the Bolton action is more evidence that Trump is on a revenge tour? And how do you feel about that if you think that's what's happening? Here's my take. I believe that the worst thing the country could do is to get into a revenge situation where every new administration wipes out the prior administration, tries to put him in jail. But we're there and I have mixed feelings about it. I don't like it. But on the other hand the only thing that keeps society together is the risk of mutual destruction. The reason that we're civilized is because we don't want somebody to kill us for being uncivilized around other people. That's it. The only thing that keeps us together as a society is the risk that if we go too far somebody's going to go right back too far on our ass.

And what we're watching in my opinion is Trump executing mutually assured destruction and that it is revenge and it's necessary. Now you might say, "But Scott, by taking the gloves off and going so hard at his enemies, which he is clearly doing, it's just going to make them go hard and it will be this endless cycle of revenge." To which I say why is it even necessary for him to get revenge? If you don't do something to somebody they don't need revenge. So maybe you should learn that you can make the cycle stop just by not trying to lawfare a guy who might become your president later.

So I'm completely in favor of the revenge in the context of mutually assured destruction. I do believe that the Democrats went way too far in trying to put him in jail and I think they went way too far in putting other Republicans in jail, quite a few of them. The ones who were around Trump, you know his accountants and all of his associates, they went after his family members, they went through his wife's underwear drawer. They went hard. And so in my opinion if he did not unleash full mutually assured destruction, and he is, but if he had not, it would have empowered them to be like that in the future. He has to go full salt the earth and he's got to pull as many of those weeds as he can in the time that he has because society requires that you not be what the anti-Trumpers were. You can't be in power. You cannot be in power and be like that because whoever comes after you is going to get the revenge and we're just going to sit back and watch.

Do people like me have the power to put the brakes on this by complaining? And the answer is yes. This would be one of the categories. It wouldn't be true for every category but for some categories like this if people like me, the people who talk about politics and are pro-Trump etc., if we were unified against this he'd cut it out because there are enough of us. I mean Trump is smart enough that he knows he needs the pundits, the podcasters and that world supports him. If we were all on the other side and said no, no, no, don't be a revenge administration. We can't handle this. It might trigger civil war. If we said that we could slow him down. And so I'm taking some risk and taking some responsibility at the same time. I'm taking some responsibility because he's the candidate I support that I'm also going to share that risk. I feel like he has a free hand for full revenge as long as there's backing for it. I mean it doesn't count if he just s