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y part of the mating, producing children, taking care of children process, your body probably stays healthier. I'll bet if you did a study of that, you'd find that to be true. So it doesn't surprise me that if you're being helpful, which is really another way to protect the tribe, which is really another way to protect the mating instinct or the mating process of the tribe because you're just hel…

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f the US people surveyed were in support of Trump's administration destroying the narco drug boats. So it turns out it's a 70-30 issue in favor of destroying the drug boats. Now, given that it's a 70-30 issue, of course Trump is doing it. You don't have to wonder if it's 70-30. If it's 70-30, yeah, he's totally doing that because why wouldn't you? Sometimes he does it while he's eating cheese. So he's actually protecting his brain while protecting the country. Yeah, that's how it works. Even 56% of Democrats are in support of blowing up those drug boats.

All right, I'll make my confession here. I'm not claiming to be such a good person. I'm going to confess. As you know, in 2018, most of you know this, I lost my stepson to a fentanyl overdose. And I can watch narco drug boats get blown up all day long and still want to see another one. Now I know I'm in the extreme because of my personal experience, but finding out that 70% of the public sort of agrees with me that watching these blow up is more good than bad, I don't feel so bad. So thank you.

Well, it's election day for some special case situations such as New York City's mayor and what is it, New Jersey governor and somebody else I don't care about. So the Wall Street Journal says that today will be a day that you will test Trump's low economics rating and see if that helps the Democrats get elected. Why in the world does Trump have a low economic rating? Does it make sense with the data that we have? You know, all data is questionable, of course, but does it make sense with the data that we do have that he would have a low economic rating? Because it seems to me that almost everything he's tried has worked.

You know, maybe he and the Democrats are trying to hold him responsible to his hyperbole, as in he'll get rid of inflation on day one. And the Democrats are actually criticizing him because he didn't get rid of, he didn't lower prices. He didn't lower prices on day one. Really, you really expected him to lower prices on day one? Now, he did lower some prices. He got your eggs down. He got your gas down. Beef's too high. He has a plan, but I don't know if that's going to work. But really, you're going to compare him to the hyperbole, not to anything in the real world.

Do you know what hyperbole is? It's imaginary, right? Hyperbole is by definition the thing that doesn't match reality. It's some extended imaginary version of reality. What is the most consistent thing that Democrats do? I think you know the answer. They lean into the imaginary. So their entire economic everything is literally based on imaginary stuff. And they do it right in front of us and we even call it imaginary and we see it as imaginary. It still works. They're still convincing their base. So the base thinks there was some way that a human being could have lowered prices on day one of the presidency. Okay. All right. It's pretty imaginary.

And have you noticed that the Democrats have words about how they want to lower prices, such as Mamdani in New York? Assuming he wins, he wants to give away a bunch of stuff which he wants to pay for with taxes on rich people, many of whom want to leave if Mamdani gets elected. Now, do you think that the math works? Of course not. Of cours

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e the math doesn't work. Which means that his plan for lowering costs, and by the way, how much control does he have over a lot of this stuff? The mayor doesn't have a lot of control over much of that stuff. So is their economic plan imaginary? Yes, it is. Now, is Trump's plan imaginary? Well, so far whatever he wants to do with beef is unstated, but I doubt it would be imaginary. I mean, I'm sure…

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