call it cluster B kind of thing going on where the liar is enjoying the lie. If you look at Pritzker when he lies like this, he's got that shit-eating grin that he can't get off his face. He appears to love lying more than he likes eating. And if you notice that the other designated liars like that too. Jamie Raskin, if you see Raskin lying, he's smiling, isn't he? Creepy smile. How about Adam Schiff when he's lying? Creepy smile. How about Hillary Clinton? Oh yeah. When she lies, creepy smile. So when you see that creepy smile, it's illuminating something on the inside of them, which I think is narcissism. You know, I'm no expert, so don't take my word for it. But it looks like they get internal delight from lying right in front of you. And I don't see that from Republicans. I don't. Do you? If you have any example of a Republican who smiles when he lies, let me know. Yeah. Look. Well, Jimmy Kimmel is a comedian, so allegedly, so you can't count that. But the actual politicians, creepy smiles. Wow.

All right. So put it all together and I was trying to think of all the advantages the Republicans have gained recently. So here are the Republican advantages. There are also Democrat advantages of course, but the Republican ones: better policies that are more popular with the people, more 80/20 and 60/40 policies, better candidates for sure. Now, normally that'd be enough, right? Better candidate, better policies, that'd be enough to win the midterms. Well, except it never works that way. But they have other advantages. One is I think the pendulum is still swinging. So you know how people just get tired of whatever the old way was and they just need a new way. I think woke is still being decreased. So I think that the pendulum swing is still toward conservatives, although that could end, you know, that could reverse before the midterms. The Democrats have to explain why they were in favor of the trans issue that mostly the public was not. Let's say trans in sports specifically and trans for children stuff specifically. Closing government. I think they'll get a little bit of blame, but that'll go away before the midterms. Supporting crime. The Democrats appear to be supporting crime. That's not a very good advantage. And now they're kicking off reparations in California. I'll talk about that.

But on top of that, now an alleged Republican, lifetime Republican has bought the Dominion voting machines. Now, I don't think that that means that the Republicans will use them to cheat. I don't think that. But they're definitely going to make sure the Democrats don't use them to cheat. So if you believe that the voting machines were ever rigged, well, that problem might be solved at least for these machines. Now, I don't have any information that they were rigged. So I'm not saying they are. I'm just saying it kind of took away that risk maybe. So then Republicans are trying to scrub the voter rolls, whichever ones they can get a hold of to get rid of the non-citizens. That should be good. There should be some more redistricting going on. You know, that whole story that should turn out positive for the Republicans probably. There's I guess the Supreme Court is looking at removing the redistricting set asides that I didn't even know existed, but some existed just for I think mostly for black Americans to make sure they had some representation. That might go away, which would be a plus for Republican districts. The last election, Laura Trump and company had lots of lawyers observing things. They'll probably do that again. And I suspect that having that many lawyers observing elections makes a difference. I think that makes a difference. And then of course Republican allies are going to own TikTok, already own X, CBS News, maybe CNN. So the entire media landscape has turned podcaster friendly and major media unfriendly. Gigantic advantage for Republicans. And MSNBC audience continues to shrink. They keep embarrassing themselves and becoming less and less important. And meanwhile, all the big tech platforms, probably all of them, are pro-Trump at this point because he's the free speech guy and they really really need a free speech guy or they can't even do business in Europe. So that's just. Oh, then I know that the Republicans are trying to get rid of mail-in ballots. I don't know if that'll be successful, but if they do, well, that would be another advantage.

And then this whole Nobel Peace Prize thing. You know, obviously it was a little too late for Trump to get it this year. I think the reason for not giving it to him this year is good enough because it really was past the deadline. But it's going to be in the air. If Trump solves Ukraine, which is possible before the midterms, he's going to have two Nobel Prize nominations for two completely different wars. You know, maybe by then the tariffs are working and the trade deals are done, Gaza is being rebuilt. What do the Democrats have? Reparations. I mean, it's starting to become such a monstrous imbalance. The imbalance is incredible. And that's without me even saying the obvious that all the best people are on the same side now. All the smartest people are on one side. Yeah, I don't think it could be said enough that Trump would not be where he is if a whole bunch of Democrats who are important like RFK Jr. and Tulsi and you know who are some other ones? I mean you could name a bunch of others: me, Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, probably some of the All-In pod guys. I'm not sure. But there were a whole bunch of people that were in my opinion the smartest people who all ended up on the same side. And that's big. That's really big because they're the ones who can make things happen.

Anyway, over in Israel, I guess Jared and Witkoff are there and Trump's going to be there today or is it tomorrow? So there's some thought that maybe some of the hostages might be released today, which would be a day ahead of the plan. But I always wondered, why do you really need to wait till Monday? Isn't that the cruelest thing you've ever heard? Imagine if you're one of the hostages and it's Friday and on Friday they say, "Hey, looks like we're going to release you on Monday." How would you feel? I mean, you'd feel good that you could get released, but wouldn't you say, "What about now? How about right now? Do I really have to stay in this tunnel for two and a half more days because that's the deadline? How about now? For God's sakes, how about now?" So I think a little bit of that might be happening. So maybe we'll see a few people trickling out today, which should be awesome.

But what's interesting is that when Jared and Witkoff were doing their little talk in front of a very happy crowd of Israelis, Netanyahu got booed and Trump got enthusiastically cheered. Netanyahu got booed in his own country and people were wearing Make America Great Again hats. Not all of them, but apparently it was acceptable. So that's happening. We'll see if everything goes s