been selected. Oh, I'm gonna laugh about that some more today.

So why do you think Tim Walz is dropping his reelection bid? Well, I do think he's going to get indicted. And it's kind of hard to run for office when you're indicted for the country's most well-known frauds. Even if he were not to be convicted it would be almost impossible to win the race because people are going to be pissed and they're going to believe he knew what was going to happen. So that's it for him.

So today I was looking at the reactions from Democrats to the fact that Trump had such a big success. And I give you some of the reactions.

So Rachel Maddow goes into this weird mode where she starts speculating incorrectly about things because she really had no argument against it that made sense. But she was angry and she always looks mentally ill. So she did a really bad job of making it look like it was a bad job that Trump did. So you got to watch if you see it, just watch how poorly she does. And I say this even noting that she often has the most well thought out, well, maybe the most noticeable or critical approach, but she had nothing. She said something, but it was the least persuasive thing. I'm not even going to get into what she said. You'll never see it in your bubble.

Well, apparently Axios was reporting on this that the Democrats were having a hard time figuring out a message about this Venezuela situation because as I correctly point out, opposing it would make you look weak and stupid. So if you said you were opposed to this thing that worked out so well and got rid of this dictator, well, you're not going to look like you're a serious player. But they also worry that if they don't criticize it, then it'll look like they're supporting Trump too much. And they've created this trap for themselves that everything has to be bad if Trump did it. So if you're living in the trap that all Trump things are bad, how do you explain to your followers, other Democrats, that everything about this looks like it was good? It's a hard thing. So they're in a trap.

And a number of Democrats are pointing out that it's just a bad approach to have a reflexive opposition to anything Trump does. But let's see how the leaders are doing.

All right. Ro Khanna of course being asked about this said, quote, "The irony is the president who criticized nation building, who criticized regime change wars, now is talking about running Venezuela and the American people are asking what about running America." Do you see how conceptual that is? He's complaining about the irony. Has anybody ever won an election because they made a good point about irony? How about the part where he says the American people are asking questions? Has anybody ever won an election because I pointed out that the American people are asking questions?

So in order for them to say there's anything bad going on, they have to go to this completely conceptual territory that will have no persuasive value whatsoever. First of all, taking out one leader is not necessarily nation building and working with the Venezuelan people to get some kind of democratic result. You could argue that's nation building, but because they didn't destroy much of anything that's already there, it looks like a very controlled, reasonable thing to do.

Now Rubio has apparently not ruled out US troops in Venezuela, but that's what they have to do in this phase. They can't rule stuff out. It doesn't mean they want to do it. Probably the last thing they want to do, but they're not ruling that out. So that puts a little pressure on the Venezuelans to get it right.

All right. So Ro Khanna goes purely conceptual, doesn't leave a dent.

Hakeem Jeffries asked about it says, quote, "It remains to be seen whether the people of Venezuela are going to be better off." So you see he's also going to the conceptual. It remains to be seen. As in, it's like a question that's nothing. A question is not really persuasive. And he finishes it off with it remains to be seen whether the Venezuelans are better off and he says that Trump has done a terrible job running the United States so why would Venezuela be any different. Now that's a little bit like changing the subject, isn't it? So he's sort of at that conceptual, we have questions, we don't know how it'll end. Totally nonpersuasive.

He asks, "How does it actually improve the quality of life every day for everyday Americans?" Well, don't you think that if you could stop drugs and get rid of an anti-American hub and stop the cartels from growing that you don't really have to show how that helps you every day? So he's got this weird assumption that if you didn't see a benefit every day to Americans, it might be the wrong thing. That's not how anything works. There's a lot of things that are good for America that we can't identify as making a difference every day.

Anyway, then the funniest one was Marco Rubio was being interviewed by ABC's George Stephanopoulos. So George Stephanopoulos asked Rubio to explain what legal authority the US had to go into Venezuela. So Rubio explains it, you know, in terms of the indictments and the drugs and everything else. And then George Stephanopoulos says, "Let me ask again, what legal authority?" That's after he answered the question. "Let me ask again, what legal authority?" And Rubio goes, I explained it very simply. We have an order from a court. That's legal authority.

So George Stephanopoulos, God bless, his approach is to act like he didn't hear or didn't understand the answer. He just pretends like he doesn't understand the answer. That's so funny.

And then Chris Murphy, who's one of the designated liars who always goes after Trump, he was on CNN and CNN embarrassingly pointed out that in 2019 you wrote an op-ed and you called for Maduro to be gone. So the guy who literally wrote an op-ed about removing Maduro had to sit there on camera and explain why he thought it was a bad idea to remove Maduro. He looked a little nervous, which was funny.

Now according to Rasmussen reports, impeachment will be on the ballot in the midterms, meaning that more than two-thirds of Democrats favor congressional candidates who will support impeachment of President Trump. Now what would they need in order to impeach President Trump? I couldn't even think of what the charge would be. Can you? Is there anything off the top of your head that says, "Well, you know, I hope he doesn't get impeached, but I can see what topic they're talking about." I don't even know what the topic is. You're going to impeach him for what? For what?

So the only thing they need, the Democrats, in order to pull off an impeachment is some absurd and made-up reason. So they've got to just make up some weird reason that I haven't heard yet. So good luck, Democrats.

So Trump was asked about Elon Musk and he had a very interesting answer. He said Elon's great. He's 80% super genius and 20% he makes mistakes, but he's a good guy. He's a well-meaning person. Now I think in that 20% would be the time that Elon Musk at least thought about forming a third party. Now it does make sense to me that Trump would think forming a third party or even getting serious about it would be a mistake. But lucky for us, that third party thing is dead and Elon is very aware that we could lose everything if Trump and the Republican dominance of the government goes away.

All right, so this is terrible. Apparently at JD Vance's home in Ohio, not the vice president's official home in Washington DC, but rather his actual home in Ohio, there was some gunfire and somebody broke a window. Now Vance was not home at the time. No injuries were reported and I guess a perpetrator's already been nabbed.

But here's my sadness about that on behalf of JD Vance. JD Vance might be brave enough that that's not the kind of thing that would stop him from doing anything he was going to do. But what about his family? If you were the spouse or the child, would you feel safe ever going back to the house? And that's the part I worry about. You know, I worry less about somebody who chose to be in politics. It's a dangerous game, you know, but of course I'd be concerned about his well-being, but as a husband and as a father, how do you navigate that? There's no right answer. It just has this effect of spoiling the family home. It's terrible. It's just terrible.

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