going to be shipped home, and nobody's going to miss them. But that's even individuals. Well, I'm not even talking about individuals. I'm just saying, are you part of this system? You know, do you prefer that we would be Sharia law instead of our regular constitution? That's got to be a hard no for immigration. If somebody says, you know, all things being equal, if I can get it, I'd rather Sharia law. If you say those words, and I believe, weirdly, I believe most people would answer honestly and they say, "Yeah, I prefer Sharia." There's no way you should be allowed in the country. That would be ridiculous because that would just be asking for our own doom. I think Europe is stupid enough to not recognize the danger until it's too late. I think we still have time.

Well, if you're on social media at all, you know that there's a sub-conspiracy theory that Israel is somehow part of the Charlie Kirk assassination. Now, I won't name names, but there are some prominent podcasters who are kind of putting that out there, not as a conclusion, but as a well, you know, it really looks like it, kind of feels like it. Here's my take. There's no way in the world that Netanyahu seems to be a master of risk management. Whatever else you want to say about him, you know, you could be all mad at him for any number of things, but you can't deny that Netanyahu is brilliant and specifically brilliant in knowing when to take a risk and when to sit it out for a while. That's his seemingly his special skill. And you know, it's impressive. The more you watch it, the more you think, wow, he took some risks and somehow he's making that work. That's amazing. Do you believe that Netanyahu would take the risk of being caught because we're good at catching murders? You know, we're pretty good at catching stuff. You know, if we put all of our resources into it, we're pretty good at it. Do you think he would take a chance no matter what he thought was the benefit of taking Charlie off the field? Because there, you know, some cases I think Charlie Kirk was not so much in favor of attacking Iran, but I don't know what else they might have some disagreement with. And Israel did say recently that they're probably not done with Iran, so I don't know what that means. But I see no way. No way. No way. No way, no way that somebody as smart as Netanyahu would take a 0.00001% chance of getting caught assassinating a beloved character in the United States. So even if you say to yourself, "Oh, I think they're evil enough." Or even if you say, "Oh, I think there's an upside for them to do it." It doesn't make sense on a risk-reward basis. The right amount of risk to risk losing the United States forever because that's what would happen. They would lose the United States forever. Do you think he's going to take that chance? Well, the only way it would make sense is if. No. Even Mossad wouldn't take that chance. There's nobody who would take that chance. So I'm going to say hard no on the possibility that Israel was in any way involved. And on top of that, the worst plan I could ever imagine is to try to control some crazy trans guy and or trans-loving guy in Utah. You wouldn't have the control over the situation that you needed, you know, and yeah, there's none of that sounds convincing to me.

All right. Conor McGregor announced he's going to withdraw from his plans to run for Irish president. I think that has more to do with the fact that he can't get through the nomination process. Ireland has some kind of nomination process that does not involve voters. So I guess it's the, I don't know the details, but it doesn't involve voting. So he would have to get other people who were already in the government to nominate him. It looks like that's not going to happen. So he's out. It's too bad. That would have been fun to watch to see if he could make it all the way.

I think this is new news, but the AP is saying that Ukraine drones, they created fire at one of Russia's top refineries. They've attacked that one before, but did minor damage before. They might have done more now. Now, part of the story by the AP is that there are in fact gas shortages in Russia and that Russia has paused gasoline exports. I don't know how much gas they exported versus oil, but they've paused gasoline exports with officials declaring a full ban until September 30th. Uh huh. Now, do you think that Ukraine has a workable strategy? At least, you know, not to win the war and conquer Russia, but do they have a workable strategy to push Russia to the point where Russia will make a peace deal that could last? I wouldn't bet on it. So if you said, you know, gun to head, would you bet that the Ukrainian strategy will work? I wouldn't. I'd probably bet against it, but it's not impossible.

I feel like if they're already experiencing gas shortages, it feels like they may be getting very close to turning Russia into not the economy that they thought they used to be. And I don't think you have to destroy the whole economy to get them to talk peace. If you took 20%, I'll just pick a number. If you could knock down their energy production by 20%. And it looks like you could keep doing it like you could never go above that. You just keep bombing stuff. You wouldn't have to get 80%. 20% would probably get you a peace deal. Can they get there? Do you think they can degrade? And again, I'm just picking a number that feels about right. Do you think that Ukraine could take out 20% of Russia's because they can reach anything now? They're going a thousand miles into Russia. I feel like that's doable, 20%. And th