Back to episode — Episode 3003 CWSA 10/29/25
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e I'm coming from. If you took a restaurant and said, "I'm going to reduce your business by 20%." They'd almost certainly be out of business because 20% is way more than the margin that restaurants are making. Most small businesses, if you took 20% away from them, they'd be out of business. If you took any politician who's succeeding and you took away 20% of their supporters, never get elected aga…
← Previous segment →re soon because they're doing a lot of attacks. So something's happening. There might be a tipping point and we might be at it, but we don't know what's tipping. One thing that might be tipping is Russia's entire economy. Maybe the other thing that could be tipping would be really bad news, which is Russia deciding to increase the lethality of their own attacks to reduce the effectiveness of the Ukrainians. So either you'll see something like a collapse in the Russian economy which might be foreshadowed by Putin getting flexible in negotiating if he suddenly gets flexible in a way we didn't expect. It might be because he sees the doom is coming and he needs to negotiate his way out. But the other thing which might be unfortunately more likely is that Russia might pull out the good stuff, you know, the really good weapons and just take out the entire energy infrastructure of Ukraine. That might happen and then we don't know what happens after that.
Trump's appealing the verdicts that made him a felon in New York. So that was the one where that was the Manhattan hush money convictions. So I guess he's filing an appeal on that. I don't think he's going to win on that. The argument is that the judge, there are three arguments I guess. Number one argument is he was president at the time of the hush money cover up so
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he shouldn't have been charged. That doesn't seem strong. That because the judge involved made small dollar donations to Democrat causes and his daughter was working for prominent members of the party that that would be too much bias. But I don't think you can overturn things because a judge has a political opinion because that would just be all judges. So I don't think that's going to fly. And th…
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