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hings is that we have ID for voting. Boom. So these might be the same issue once you get rid of the filibuster. Likewise, there's a big decision coming up in the courts. The Supreme Court in this case will be listening next week to arguments about whether Trump can impose tariffs. Did you know that that was even a legal question, whether the president even has the authority to put tariffs on stuf…

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rame you've heard before. I'm just going to repurpose it. The country with the strongest economy wins the war. You can't separate economics from national defense. Your economy is your national defense.

And that's what Trump's Justice Department is saying, but they're not quite getting the wording right. So what I'm going to try to help him with is get the wording right because you can quite easily convince people, smart people, that the strength of the economy is just one more weapon that national defense can take advantage of and the tariffs are really a big part of what you can manipulate in your economy for national defense.

So they do say obviously they know because they say it directly quote denial of tariff authority would expose our nation to trade retaliation without effective defenses. But let's say that without the nerdy stuff. Take the nerdy legal stuff out. The country with the strongest economy is the safest defense wise. Once you get the justices to agree with that general statement that you can't separate economics from defense, it's pretty hard to take the economics away from the president, chief of staff, you know, the chief of the army. I feel like that's enough. I mean, obviously I'm no expert on the Supreme Court or lawyering, but am I wrong? Well, give me a quick reaction. If you can sell the fact, which is easily easy to sell, that the economics and the national defense are inseparable. Once you've made that claim and the justices have sort of maybe mentally accepted that that's a baseline fact, whatever you argue on top of that gets a lot easier because it's all based on that.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I saved the country.

I love listening to John Solomon talking about the RICO conspiracy potentially. Now, nobody's been charged with this in this context, but it's possible. He says that all the bad behavior, let's say from Obama on that were aimed against Trump and Trump world goes back to 2014. And that you could trace the line through the same bunch of cats all the way to 2014. You can see the documentation so you know what bad behavior they did. You know that they tried to do sketchy things to change the government essentially an insurrection. And if it does go all the way back then it does look like a RICO. RICO being originally it was a mafia attack law. So you could go after them for a whole bunch of organized coordinated behavior that's criminal.

So if they can show that this is criminal behavior and maybe that's the obstacle versus just political, it's all connected. So if it's criminal and it's the same people and it's all documented that they were coordinating it for a specific purpose that was illegal, looks like RICO to me, but I wouldn't bet on it. I feel like I'm just on the border of saying, "Yeah, this is a slam dunk RICO situation. There's no way they lose it." I don't think it's slam dunk. I think it's real. And I think that John Solomon's take on it is completely reasonable, but whether that translates into actual people go to jail, I don't know.

All right, let's have some fun. You like some cont

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roversy? So in the Wall Street Journal, there's an editorial by somebody named Dominic Green, and he's talking about the MAGA right's anti-semitism problem. You ready for this? So if you've been watching the news, you know that there's sort of a controversy or somebody's trying to make it into one. It's sort of a wannabe controversy, meaning that people keep talking about it like they want to make…

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