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l nearly as anxious or as depressed. So what I wonder is, is there anything you can measure? Probably not, because we know that depression also causes a lack of energy. But I'll bet it's far more two-way than medicine acknowledges. That's my hypothesis. That if you could fix people's energy, they would have a better mental state. Now, that's also consistent with the fact that when people exercise,…

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happened with the guy whose job it is to investigate mail fraud? I'll give you another hint. Part of his job is to figure out when somebody was being scammed with a mail scam. Which ones of those letters coming from the people being scammed would have cash in them because apparently there's a scam where they get old people probably to mail them cash just through the mail. So the investigator told the people to look for certain kinds of mail that would have cash in it because they were victims of a scam. And then he told them instead of delivering the cash to the fraudster, they should give all the envelopes with the cash to the US postal inspector, the investigator. So do you think that the US postal investigator upgraded his swimming pool? Yes, he did. Apparently he was just keeping all the, he was essentially scamming the scammers out of their own money. So the victims still lost their money, but so did the scammer. And he was just living the good life. Oh, I'll tell you, if you ever want a good job, be a US postal investigator. Guys, you're going to have to send all of these highly illegal envelopes full of cash. Send them to me.

All right. Trump, you probably heard there was some noise, some people saying that there's something wrong with Trump. But he apparently went golfing this weekend and he's doing posts and it looks like he's got an interview. So he doesn't seem to be deceased in case you thought that. So that rumor was going around for a little while. But there does seem like there's something going on. So I'm definitely in the camp of saying, "Huh, I wonder why he's going to be so quiet this weekend relative to Trump." So you know, that plus the fact that he's got swollen hands and that's been a little bit unexplained. I am worried about him. I'm worried about him. So I'm officially concerned. It doesn't look like it's necessarily deadly or anything, but I'm concerned.

But he was asked recently by the Daily Caller, I think, Reagan Reese asked Trump if he'd be bothered if James Comey and John Brennan got handcuffed and arrested for their role in Russiagate and maybe other things. And Trump said it would not bother me at all. Now, and then he went on to say that four years ago or during his first term, you know, that he sort of shut down the lawfare. And he explained how, you know, Hillary Clinton obviously could have been arrested for something and he decided to not let that happen. But then now that we know so much about Russiagate and we know what all the bad people did pretty reliably and specifically we know what they did and you can see the entire structure of the coup attempt and I feel like what Trump's doing is softening up the room. I feel like one of the things you need to do is make sure there are lots of news stories about the things that his enemies did. So that's happened. So we've seen story after story in which they're implicated in the crime. So that's sort of softening the room because if you just went hog wild and had your people arrest all of your critics, there's no way the country would put up with that. So first he has to make sure that everybody's at least aware that there are credible reports of all these people doing illegal things. Credible. Now, that doesn't mean you necessarily would arrest them all, but I feel like then the next thing would be for him to make you think about it. So when he says stuff like it wouldn't bother me at all, you can really now visualize Brennan and Clapper and maybe even Obama literally in handcuffs, you know, being taken to the car, the perp walk. Now, that doesn't mean it will turn out that way, but it does mean that if you've seeded the stories in the press, which has happened, and then you also talk about it so that people imagine it like it's already happened. And knowing that the wheels of justice are kind of slow. So if you imagine those guys getting arrested and you just keep imagining it for months and then one day you turn on the TV and you see the thing you've been imagining for months, yeah, if you're a Democrat, you're definitely going to pretend to have some feelings about that, but all your feelings will have sort of been dissipated by the fact that you've been thinking about it for months and it hadn't happened. And by the time it does, you will have heard a million times what they're accused of and you'll know that there are documents to back it up. So I feel as though the Trump administration and Trump in particular, they have softened up the environment just right. Meaning that I believe that they can arrest these people if they have the goods and that the country would complain. But it's got a lot on its plate. So as long as Trump is ending crime and closing the border and getting some tariff deals done, I think that the country is ready to see some of these bad guys arrested. So we'll see. I'm still going to bet against it, by the way. So if you want my prediction, there might be indictments. I'll say there will be indictments. But I don't think any of them are going to go to jail. I think they might be ruined by the process, but I don't know that they'll go for jail.

Speaking of that, MSNBC had John Brennan on and of course he was defending everything he did and saying Trump was terrible. But I've never heard John Brennan sound so afraid. Just his voice. He seems completely guilty and scared to death. And you know, I can't read his mind, but certainly the things that we've seen that are public would suggest he's certainly guilty. And he should be very afraid of that because they have the goods on him and they're just making him twist apparently. I mean, yeah. Does he have to wonder if there's going to be a grand jury about him, John Brennan? Yeah, I don't think he has to wonder. I'm pretty sure there will be a grand jury situation with him. Doesn't mean he goes to jail or anything.

What do we got here? So yeah, Brennan just looks scared to death. And I don't know that you look like that if you're innocent. I mean, I guess some people who are innocent have, like Caputo have been destroyed by the process. So I guess you could be afraid even if you were innocent, but I don't think that's what's happening in this case.

Trump also said he's going to issue an executive order requiring voter ID for every vote and he's trying to get rid of mail-in ballots the same way. Now, of course, any of that kind of stuff is going to immediately, there'll be lawsuits and we don't know how any of that will turn out. So he might not be able to have in the end any control over that directly. But let's say he did or even if he didn't. Here are the things that determine who gets elected in our fake system. Number one, if you're a Democrat, apparently the party leaders decide who's gonna get nominated. So I think the whole nomination process is a little bit fake, you know, as we saw the way Harris got nominated. So there's that. Then you've got these EOs about voter ID and mail-in ballots. If those t

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hings are allowed, it probably gets you a different result than if they're not allowed. So is it the voters who are deciding or is it the existence of EOs and whether the court said yes or no to the EO? What about the gerrymandering? That will determine a lot. What about the fake news? But what about Mark Elias and all of his thousands of lawsuits and rule changes and stuff like that? That made a…

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