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lly a Russian flagship or if they changed it to a Russian flagship, but if he gets away with this, if that tanker captain actually pulls it off and gets away, that is going to be the coolest criminal thing I've seen this year. So I'm trying not to root for the other team, but he's a ballsy captain. All right. Well, good luck, Captain. So here's some good news. Lee Zeldin is reporting that the Tr…

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ied and apparently has never been applied before, which is the weird part. How long ago was it that you learned that science was mostly fake or at least the science that we cared about? You know, we never really had safety tests for a lot of medicines, but we thought we did. I mean, I think I thought the same thing you did for years, which is the most tested would be pharmaceutical stuff. Turns out that was never the case. And then secondly, you would assume that food and food safety would also be among the top things that our science did right. Well, turns out that's all wrong. That we didn't have science to support our big meds and we didn't have science to support our big food. But of all people, Trump is the one who's making this real science. So there's more on that in a minute.

I'm seeing some reporting about Trump's approval levels being high. I think it was Harry Enten on CNN who said they've never seen this before, which is a president in his second term who's been more approved than his first term. Because first terms you tend to get a little bit of a honeymoon, but Trump is actually more popular now than any time in his first term. That's impressive.

Now how popular he is is a matter of dispute. So there are various d

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ifferent polls. They have very different answers. I think one said he's at 44% approval, which wouldn't be bad. Another poll I think said 50% approval, which would be very impressive, 50%. But you know how much you really trust claims of popularity or approval, I guess. But here's what Trump does. So in the midst of these sketchy numbers, Trump says that the polls are rigged and he claims his real…

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