Was It A Genocide?

31:55None of that. It's just, it doesn't. And the fact that if you're sitting here going, yeah, but even if you want to argue, this demonstrates that they're not trying to kill every single person there because they're at least trying to get some food or some medical aid into them. the genocide claim doesn't revolve around wanting to kill every single member of them. Like the legal statute says that wanting to kill part of them, 100 ,000 or so of them, and then destroy their entire habitat intentionally to destroy the people so that they can't live, that rises to the level. So they don't have to meet this other claim.

32:35It is a straw man. You're coming in with a bar that isn't the bar that they have to meet. Hey, right. Maybe not a straw man, but a false argument of some sort. The Nazis gave Jews potato skin soup and materials to get rid of lice. There were right. Well, look, it does not. Again, also, it doesn't prove the fact that some Jews got food during the Second World War doesn't prove that Hitler wasn't trying to kill all of the Jews. And the fact that some aid got into Gaza doesn't prove that they weren't trying to kill all of the Gazans. But the other idea, sorry, go ahead. It also just really doesn't prove as to the rate at which there might be choosing to do it as being socially acceptable with plausible deniability.

33:19That is number two. Yeah, I was literally setting out one and that's two. Is that because you're exactly right, Rob, because the idea. Well, here, let's play the rest of the clip and then Rob can make it. I think he's going to add the same exact thing of food. um israel could commit a genocide of yeah in a week probably they haven't done that because they have no intent to do it okay suppose here because that's the other thing they always go to there rob right is that this is the other big thing and this is again i just say to the pro israel people this is why your argument is dying this is why no one is rallying like this is why you're persuading no one because that argument is just total bullshit dude it is such fucking bullshit.

34:02It is so ridiculous to just go like, look, dude, like in the same way that let's just say, um, you're, you're physically. Okay. So Rob's Rob exercises regularly. He's fairly strong guy. Let's say you, uh, you walk into a convenience store or something like that. And there's a little old lady who's behind the desk and I go to you and, and let's say you were trying to like, steel, you know, you're, you're, uh, you're, you're trying to, um, what do they call it? Shoplift something. And I were to say to you, well, dude, look, you have, you know, Rob starts shoplifting a bunch of stuff. I go, he's trying to take the whole fucking store.

34:41Someone else goes, no, he's not dude. He's bigger and stronger than that lady. He could just go up and strong arm her and take everything if he wanted to. Okay. Well, like actually, yeah, but then maybe she calls the cops, you know, like maybe there was a security camera. Maybe there's something else. No, actually The fact that you're bigger and stronger in that immediate moment does not mean you can get away with anything. Like, dude, do you think, think about what has happened to the popularity of Israel since October 7th? What do you think would have happened if they had done the scenario you mentioned?

35:12If they had just said, instead of, let's say, they go, that's how we're going to conduct our genocide. We're going to conduct it by just executing every single person. We're going to, in a week, murder 2 million people, not the 100 ,000. We're going to kill all of them. What would happen, Rob? Israel had been destroyed. Absolutely destroyed. Even at that point, even America could, even nobody could defend them at that point, dude. They would have absolutely, like, so actually, Rob, no, it's not so clear that they could have done it like that. It's actually pretty damn clear if you actually run the scenario out that doing it that way would have gotten them absolutely destroyed.

35:48And doing it this way is going to get them all of Gaza, the West Bank, most of the parts of Lebanon that they want, more parts of Syria and the war in Iran that they wanted. So why would they do it that way instead of this way? So you know what I'm saying? Like, even if your intent was to exterminate every last one of the Palestinians, it would make more sense to do it this way than to do it that way. So this argument just flat out fails. Yes, Israel has nukes. And I'm not even sure someone ask a scientist about, you know, I mean, you're talking about right next door. I don't know which way the winds are blowing that day, if it actually is an option for Israel to nuke Gaza, but they do have, let's just say the winds are blowing toward Egypt and it's not a problem.

36:28You think they could have just dropped a nuke on them and that wouldn't have like, if this brought them down 70 points in approval, that would have brought them down 100 % of everyone. So no, that wasn't an option. This is complete bullshit. And it doesn't, it doesn't relieve you of the genocide charge. Hitler could have killed all the Jews day one. Does that prove he didn't want to? All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show. Longtime sponsor of the show, HexCloud, which is an unbelievable company. They have amazing products. If you're looking to level up your kitchen game or your grill game, you got to check out HexCloud.

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39:11But like, when you actually look at the definition and you look at all the stuff that they're doing, you go, ah, there's a very strong argument. And that, I mean, that really is kind of the essence of the point here. Um, all right, let's, let's keep playing a little bit. what matters when it comes to genocide. So I agree with Netanyahu and you. It really is the biggest lie of the 21st century. And I'm telling you, right now, the single biggest. Oh, dude, I was so sure it was weapons of mass destruction. You're saying, oh, dude, you're saying that the absolute destruction of Gaza being called a genocide, that's the big lie.

39:51But the made up nuclear program that led to a war of aggression that got a million people killed and cost trillions of dollars? That wasn't the big lie? I'm sorry, there was this two weeks to slow the spread lie that kept Americans on house arrest for years? What are you talking about? You can't get COVID or transmitted if you get this experimental vaccine, which might hurt you, by the way. This is the lie. This is at best, Rob, at best, Rob, this is a slight exaggeration. They're in their in their strongest argument. Genocide is a slight exaggeration. That's the realm of argument that we're in here, because look, dude, I mean, again, we'll play through this before we just get into like what they actually did.

40:46But so, yeah, let's keep playing. On the 2028 Democratic debate stage, raise your hands. Raise your hands if you think Israel committed a genocide. Well, it's not just a question on the debate stage. There was Representative Haley Stevens. She's from Michigan. This week was followed to her car. This goes on all the time. I showed a tape of it, but some other, the guy, Brad Weiner, who's Scott Weiner is running for Nancy Pelosi's seat. And a crowd gets around him and say it, say it. You have to say the word. This woman surrounded her and just say it. And she said, see you at the gallows. Is what, yeah?

41:28No, I was just gonna say, the interesting thing is that there were all these other litmus tests that existed in 2020. And you see politicians, Pete Buttigieg took out, he had his pronouns on his social media account. He got rid of them. So there's actually an effort to get away from what AOC has called woke one. But the new litmus test is Gaza and genocide. That's replaced a lot of these old litmus tests. Yeah. So, I mean, I don't know how the point about litmus test does anything to prove whether it's a genocide or not. But so I guess maybe it is like worth pointing out that. OK, so I think this like this, Rob.

42:09And tell me if you think this is fair. Like, let's just for a second leave out the word genocide. OK. Like. If the if we're trying to be as charitable as we can to say the Bill Maher and that one guest who it's a little bit challenging to be charitable to them because they're such incredibly smug people. um but like if you wanted to say hey dude well i'll put it like this rob look it is like when you see those pictures if you're not following you know what's been going on in the war it might you could be shocked that so few people have died right like i mean if i were to tell you that like 2.1 million people lived in gaza and then showed you gaza you might think to yourself like oh my God, did 2.1 million people die?

43:01Are there 1.8 million people buried under there? And that's not right. That's not what happened. And so if they want to make the claim that no, Israel didn't just do that with all the people in there, that is true. So okay. If they want to say that when you use the word genocide, that's what you're invoking in people's mind and that isn't actually what happened, then okay, that is a legitimate point I suppose to make. So to be clear, what that's not what Israel did. What Hamas says that there's 70 ,000 people underneath all that, essentially, like that's the all that rubble that you see, they say there's 70 ,000 people underneath all that.

43:45There's the Israel, the Israeli supporters and the Israeli government spent the entire first two years of the war. I mean, if you saw any debate and there were more debates on this topic than anything else through that time. If you saw any debate through that time, every single time the pro-Israel guy said, those are Hamas numbers. You're getting those numbers from the Gaza health ministry, which is controlled by Hamas. Okay. At the end of this entire war, the official government, the official stance of the government of Israel is that they've accepted the Hamas figures. The Hamas figures are correct.

44:18Most estimates put it a bit higher, a bit north of 100 ,000. But so essentially what Israel did was immediately after October 7th, They cut off all the power. They cut off all the electricity. Why do we keep doing this? They cut off all the electricity. They cut off the water. They shut down Gaza. They immediately started bombarding it. They made all types of blatant statements openly about what was going to be done, Rob. I mean, from the very top all the way down through the civilian leadership and military leadership, all types of comments about Amalek and relocation to this day, the number two and three posts in the Israeli government openly talk about how they're going to ethnically cleanse the place.

44:57This is just openly discussed. Benjamin Netanyahu has himself said that they're going to occupy the vast majority of Gaza going forward. They're taking over this area. So they immediately start bombing the crap out of the place. Now, in the bombardments of all this stuff, you see tons of people are getting killed. But what they would do is they would send out these leaflets, Rob, Rob, like you said, like not all the time. They bomb some places and not send out leaflets. Sometimes they would just take out a building because it was a terrorist they wanted. Didn't matter if there were a bunch of innocent people there.

45:27They would just kill them. But a lot of other times they would force the civilians out. You know, we would read about this all the time, Rob, as it was happening. They'd force them out this way. They'd force them out that way. Sometimes they'd get killed in the process and they'd be starved. I mean, they're still living in like at this day. They're living in like horrific refugee conditions. These people just have it. Absolutely. And then while Israel had the civilian population out, they made the decision to destroy the whole thing. Everything, everything, dude, like every. And, you know, like I don't even know what to say.

46:03I was talking on the phone with Horton about all of this the other day, but it's like everything because Gaza didn't have a government. Like, technically speaking, they were always ruled by Israel. But I mean almost like government buildings in the sense, Rob, of just think about, this is Gaza. This is a place that millions of people have lived for hundreds of years. I mean, now most of the people who live there have lived there since the creation of the state of Israel, since the creation of the state of Israel, because they were crammed in there. They're mostly refugees who were kicked out of Israel.

46:30But so every building that has every official record of every property deed and genealogy pool, every nursery, every playground, every single hospital, every single schoolyard, every single school, every single business, all of it destroyed forever. your entire lives, your history, your family, your mosques, your culture, all of it destroyed forever. And we are planning on taking it after that. And we're not sure what we're going to do with the rest of the people there, but it looks like we're probably going to try to kick them out. That's what they did. Okay. So call that whatever the fuck you want to call that, but I'm sorry by the legal definition, the people arguing it's a genocide got a damn strong case.

47:24And the people laughing about it has nothing to be laughing about. It literally does remind me, supposedly, I got to reread this, Rob. I don't know if I'm remembering this right, but I remember watching, I read a book about this and then I watched a documentary about the Nuremberg Trials. And I guess there was one point where all the Germans are laughing about how they're going to be charged for fucking the Holocaust or whatever it was, genocide, I think was one of the charges. and then they like started playing the films of the death camps and like it wiped the smile off their faces and they were like yeah we're going down you know and like i don't know dude it kind of seems like that too like it seems to me that like if this was like a court of law like this little gimmick that bill maher's doing but then once you actually explain the story it's like yeah dude the people making the accusation of genocide aren't saying they went in there and killed all two million people of that like we know that but this is what they did do and jesus fucking christ rob it's pretty rough uh that was an epic rant i got nothing to add to it um all right you want to move over to uh we should do uh at least touch on a couple of these ben shapiro mark levin clips dude how can you not how can you not rob you tell me which one is the one we should start with now To be clear, I only saw one of these, and you said there were a couple other that were good.

48:49So what do you think? I would just start it right from the beginning, which I think I marked it at the 114 timestamp, where they are claiming that the conservatives should be doing just fine in this upcoming election because only 4 % of the population actually cares about the Iran situation. Oh, wonderful. Yeah, so I would start it right from that. All right, let's jump in. Two friends of the show. with the American people. So whatever happens in the midterms, it doesn't appear that Iran's going to drive anything one way or another. What's your take on this? I think that's exactly right. Obviously, there is a contingent who would love to see President Trump do poorly in the midterms who want Republicans to lose.

49:31Some of these people are openly saying they want Republicans to lose, by the way. Some of them are openly standing in favor of the pro-terrorism candidate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed. So there are some people who are attempting to destroy the Republican Party from within in the hopes that they will then be able to sort of take over whatever remains of the Republican Party. I don't think that it's going to work. You know, when you look at the Iran issue, there's one thing that Americans hate more than anything else when it comes to foreign policy, and it is not foreign conflict. It is losing. It is losing.

49:59And the reality is that the president has done yeoman's work in reopening the Strait of Hormuz and putting the United States in a position to really finish off the Iranian regime without having to put some stuff around. Okay, go ahead. I guess we started a couple seconds late there, but off the top of my head, 4 % was definitely in the number, and Mark Levin's claim is that only 4 % of the population actually cares about the Iran war. Now, just as a theoretical, let's just go that that's theoretically true. I'm going to say that that number is totally bullshit, but how much do you think that number changes if you have the question, how concerned are you because of rising prices as a result of the iran war or how concerned are you that uh that donald trump did not uh follow through on america first agenda because he got distracted by a foreign war and so if you're just going to ask people how do you care for fighting a war in iran and would you like to see us win it i don't know maybe you get polling that's some that's close to that i'm going to say that it's totally not true but the idea that prices are not the absolute biggest issue right now and that iran's not driving that and that that's not the chief complaint amongst your average american citizen that we got dragged into another quagmire when we were promised no new wars and it's affecting pricing i mean it's just it's certifiably not true well yeah i mean look dude they're just so it's such it's such cope man it's just like and that yeah and then why is it so then why is it that you guys are about to get destroyed well then what is so look you also here's the thing what I'm, it's not, look, dude, people obviously, look, my, think about how much I care about all these issues.

51:36My number one priority in life is that my kids are taken care of. After that, it's that my wife is, is okay. You know what I'm saying? Like I have more. And if I'm like, um, if I was in a, luckily I'm doing quite well, but like if I was in a situation where I'm really struggling to get by, then obviously like my healthcare costs and the cost to feed my family and the cost to house my family, that's going to be my, my number one priority. No. So obviously people who aren't as obsessed with this stuff as us. Why would what's going on in Iran be as big a priority to them as the things that they need?

52:06Americans are putting groceries on the credit card right now. Obviously, that's the number one priority. Also, their country has been completely demographically changed against their will. That's a big priority right now. Obviously, Iran isn't the priority right now. But that is the entirety of our point, idiot. That's not a point for you. That's a point in our column. If you launched a war of choice against Iran, then you better damn well hope that the polling shows that that's the number one priority of your constituency. Are you retarded? Come on, like, I'm sorry, Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro are not particularly bright men.

52:43They're not. They're not impressive thinkers, but they're not this dumb, Rob. Everyone would know that. Yes, the whole point is your voting base doesn't give a shit about Iran. And yet you launched this huge effort. You put your whole political thing on it. You're running on it now. And, you know, I guess in addition to that, I would say, well, what was the thing that Ben Shapiro said that made me laugh? They're just holding out that there's a victory right around the corner. We just have to bomb. Oh, right, right, right, right. And Donald Trump is too stupid to do it. The accomplishment was that he did God's work when he opened the Strait of Hormuz.

53:17I never thought I'd live in a world with the open straight of Hormuz, Rob. I never thought I would see such an accomplishment. You can't brag about an accomplishment when you caused the problem. Like what? Come on, come on. This is low. Anyone with a 100 IQ can debunk any of this shit. How about this one, Rob? They just think about how like genuinely what a like, how low resolution, low IQ, you, the argument here would be to go, these people want the Republicans to lose. The people criticizing Trump want the Republicans to lose. The overwhelming majority of the people you're referring to right now, whoever is in these people's minds, it usually seems to be like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes and me and Megyn Kelly or whoever else it is.

54:09It's almost all of those people supported Trump, but they didn't want Republicans to lose just recently. And like, you can say, oh, they want Republicans to lose, but well, look, how about this, Rob? Okay. Just, uh, off the top of my head, cause I'm old. I can go back in history a little bit. Now, this is what's cool about being old, Rob. I can remember 20 years ago, like no problem. So 20 years ago, 2006, there were midterm elections. Okay. The Republicans got destroyed in the midterm elections and lost both chambers of Congress. The Democrats stormed back, and I think they lost both chambers.

54:45They definitely lost the House. Nancy Pelosi comes in as the Speaker of the House. And the Republicans tried to rally around George W. Bush. And in 2008, they ran John McCain, the same exact George W. Bush foreign policy guy. And they got slaughtered by Barack Obama and led to eight years of, of democratic, uh, control who right now would say it wouldn't have been better for the Republicans to just reject George W. Bush in 2006. Like, yeah, dude, we're not trying to rally on him. We're not running McCain next time. We're going to run someone who was against the war in Iraq. Yeah. You could have saved yourself the Obama eight years.

55:24You didn't have to go through the worst crushing defeat ever. You didn't have to We go through the embarrassment of the John Boehner years and all those awful guys, Mitt Romney and the rest. So like, no, obviously it would. Okay, so why would it have been better to bail on George W. Bush? What was the problem with rallying around George W. Bush? Everyone hates his fucking guts. Everyone in the country fucking hated him. And why? Because he launched, he lied us into stupid wars that we lost. That is exactly what's going on right now, Rob. And it is crazy that these people don't see it. I know I've been saying this now for a year and a half, but it's just become more and more obvious the whole time.

56:07And it was clear as day to see, just like the COVID shit, just like opposing the genocide, just like all of it. It was clear as day to see. He's going fucking down. This is George W. Bush. So anyone telling you like, yo, we got to wipe our hands, that it's so low IQ to go, oh, so you want us to lose. It's like, no, I'm saying like, it's like supporting that we will go, we will burn, we will crash and burn in 28 unless we find something else other than this is the point. Anything else you want to go back to that? No, no, no. Let's hear the Cargillin pitch and the gas prices pitch. Oh God. Oh Lord.

56:41The United States in a position to really finish off the Iranian regime without having to put boots on the ground in Iran. The president has to within his capacity to essentially finish the Iranian economy. with a single bombing sortie over Clark Island or South Pars. The biggest thing, I think, that is the obstacle right now to just completing that victory is just a matter of decision-making. Does the president actually believe that a deal is on the table or does he not? I'm very skeptical. Let's pause it for a second, Rob, because isn't it convenient, Rob, that every time someone's defending this war, and it's unbelievable, dude.

57:14I saw I saw Will Chamberlain, the guy who guaranteed or said he'd be shocked if the Iranians lasted another month back in April, back in April. Oh, yeah. He just said he just said, we're winning the war. It's looking better than ever. You know, and they always rub. They always have this and they say it with a lot of confidence. They go, listen, man, there is this military option. Let me tell you about if we went in here and then we came in like that and then we fucking kicked your ass, fucked him up like here. We could just do that and win this whole thing. We could just do that. That option's right there.

57:48That's what I said we'd do. And that's why you support the war, because you know I got this option where we could just win the whole thing, destroy the whole economy in this one option. Oh, and why isn't Trump doing that? Huh? It's decision-making. He's waiting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's been sitting here for six months waiting. There's this obvious option to win the war, but he's just not doing it. And by the way, hey, guys, when none of this comes true, when he doesn't do any of this, you know, Ben Shapiro will just move the goalposts and move on to something else. But literally what they are requiring you to believe, they're backing this up with nothing other than an assertion that this can be done and not telling you what the costs or how many people are going to get killed or what it could, what, you know, like the possible bad outcomes of this could be.

58:30It could be done. Isn't this doesn't this just not pass the smell test? Then why the fuck have they not done this yet? It seems like the option there is because it doesn't exist. There is no plan. Sorry, I call bullshit. Back it up with something. You're muted. There's always a very simple way to win, and somehow only Ben Shapiro knows it, and nobody will take his sound advice on the simple solution. If what Ben Shapiro's saying is true, am I getting this wrong? What Ben Shapiro's saying is true. shouldn't he be as outraged at the trump administration as we are maybe more oh yeah because he's just leaving a simple solution on the table that could solve all the problems like dude get rid of these jokers in the pentagon and put ben shapiro in there dude just fucking bomb car guy it's literally like dude it's i mean i don't know if i remember once uh buddy of mine this dude named uh greg uh black dude from brooklyn loved greg haven't seen him in years.

59:36Great guy though. 05.: Not a very black dude from Brooklyn name. 05.: Yeah, no, it's what it really threw you for a loop. Yeah. It was like a kind of hood black guy. But so he was over at my old apartment that I used to have in Brooklyn and Louis Jay Gomez was there. We were like 25 years old or something like that. And we were over at my apartment. We were watching UFC. Me and Louis had just gotten into UFC and we were watching old UFC. It was a hoist Gracie fight. And my black friend, Greg goes, uh man if that motherfucker came up on me I just elbow that motherfucker and hit him like this and then I just told him for 15 minutes what a child he sounded like right now and I go do you know what hoist gracey would do to you if he grabbed a hold of you you think you you think you just look at it like you it's like I go you sound like a seven-year-old boy right now going I'd come in and go like that's what Ben Shapiro's doing here if it were me I'd go down to Carg Island and I'd just be like I'd kick him right in the face like yeah okay Ben I guess that's your claim that you should really be furious at the trump administration if they would just put you in the pentagon we'd have won this war already and we'd go dominate the midterms and now we're about to give them over to these crazy socialists who hate israel all because they won't do this one simple thing that you could do he should he should be calling for his impeachment his uh his next dumbass pitch which uh we can play him it will catch a little bit of it but he says for those that are concerned with gas prices if we don't end this now uh it's only going to be a problem moving forward.

1:00:57And that's also not true because you could just walk away, let them charge a toll, and that would be the end of higher gas prices. Yeah. Oh, OK. Right. Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's just all so it's like just genuinely childish. All right. Here, let's let's let's keep on. I'll deal on the table. But as you say, the American people are significantly less interested in any foreign policy issue than they are with how things are going here in the United States. And if the economic numbers continue to boom in the stock market, if they continue to do well in the unemployment numbers, if the wages increase to keep up with the inflation and inflation drops, then Republicans will do fine in the midterms and the rest of the presidency will be a success.

1:01:39It really is almost that simple. Pause it. Pause it right here. OK, so it really is that simple. All we got to do is lower prices. It's really that simple. All we got to do is have this war go good and lower prices. What are the, what are the, well, let's check, CalShay, our sponsor there. What are the Calci odds right now on the Republicans? I'm sorry, I should say on the Democrats taking the House and the Senate. I should say that the episode is sponsored by Calci. Also, we have a link, which is calci.com slash r slash Dave Smith. If you want to go check out that site, you can keep yourself busy there for hours.

1:02:14They can the prediction markets for everything. So go check that out. It is very interesting. OK, let's get back into it. What are the Calci odds right now on the Republicans? I'm sorry, I should say on the Democrats taking the House and the Senate. I think it's like 60 percent or maybe I think I think it's higher in the House. And I think it's something I think it's around 60. And that's going to be my guess is going to be 70 in the House and 60 in the Senate. I'm not sure, though. I haven't I haven't checked this recently. Those Calci markets move. You got to check them. I don't know where the money's going.

1:02:47But I got to say, well, look, dude, and as with all polls and with all markets and things like that, although markets are a little bit different because people are actually putting their money into it. It's not these things aren't crystal balls that you're looking into the future. But it's like it is interesting to see where people's money are right now in these prediction markets. And yeah, I already will tell you it's not looking good. So, yeah, let me know if you if you have those back up. I don't know anything else on any of this Rob I mean it's like what what does that mean again like there was that old clip if you remember I always loved bringing it up when Thomas Massey pointed out that the math didn't add up on the amount of electric vehicles they wanted and how much juice was in the power grid to get the power to the electric vehicles and that and it was uh what's his name the gay dude um Buttigieg was up there and he goes uh um you know he's got this this new, you know, he's going to implement that all these cars have to be, you know, carbon neutral by, you know, this date.

1:03:50And he goes, but we don't have the power grid to have enough electricity. And he goes, that's why we need to reinvent the power grid. And you go, oh, so you have nothing. So then you have nothing. You don't have a thing. That is what that means. That is you have zero. You get zero out of a hundred for that. And like for Ben Shapiro to just go, look, all we need to do is make the war work good, win, and then bring prices down and then we'll win the midterms. This is delusional. I'm sorry. What is it? 91.5 Dems, eight Republicans. I don't know what that. Hold on. Let's see. Wait now. Hold on. Which party will win the U.S.

1:04:27House? And what is it? Democratic Party? 91%. Oh, wow. Jesus. They were way higher than I thought. Okay. 91 % they're at for the House. And where are we at for the Senate?

1:04:40wow 91 is where the money is right now i mean take that's for what it's worth hey and it's criticizing the war can i uh wait can we change our guess for the senate now now i want to go higher that i didn't realize that was quite as high as it was um 70 maybe i don't know geez the house isn't going to be that high um i'm inside the senate isn't going to be that high 62 okay so 91 and 62 in other words utter catastrophe rob utter catastrophe if you care about the trump coalition at all it is just impossible to overstate what an utter catastrophe calamity disaster this is house is on fire the defcon 80 this is the worst situation you could imagine, dude.

1:05:31And here, look, Rob, like, why? Because the Democrats are about to come back in, dude. And that's it. That's it. This is Trump's second term. That's it. This is the rest of it. Democratic control of Congress. And what does that mean? Oh, I mean, his entire domestic agenda is fucked. And what was it again, Rob? Remind me what Ben Shapiro just said Trump voters care about. Oh, yeah. Everything they care about is fucked over the war. Now, they could sit here and pretend all day long that it's not over the war. But I don't know, man, like saying, you know, if I literally their argument comes down to I've I've put all my chips in on policy A and their argument is people don't care about policy A.

1:06:23So you can't say that policy A is the reason why this is a disaster. I mean, it's it's so dumb. It's like, I don't know if there was a pollutant in the air and you and I were criticizing the pollutant and the administration allowed for more of the pollutant. And then the pollutant killed all of the fields and there was no grass, grain or food to eat. And then you said, well, people don't care about the pollutant. Whereas and everyone's upset about that. There's no food to eat. This is the natural consequence of the war was that there was inflation and prices went up. And so firstly, I don't think the 4 % is even true.

1:06:53But if you're looking at it as being a price issue and pretending people don't care about the war, you're just one step removed from the policy that caused the price increase. Yep. Yep. That's exactly right. All right. I guess we got to we got to leave it there. Guys, come out and see Rob. Go see him run the FBI special out in Salt Lake. Dude, that's going to be a lot of fun. Porchdoor.com, ComicDaveSmith.com. Come see both of us out in Salt Lake City and in Las Vegas. We're looking forward to that. And yeah, catch you guys tomorrow, regular time tomorrow. Catch you then. Peace.